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| Wireless Router WPA2 Key Renewal Lag Disconnect Dropped Connection by Rafiki 07/14/2011, 10:10am PDT | ||||
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| If Caltrops can't help me, hopefully that title will make it into the Google results for someone who can.
I have a problem with my wireless connection at home. I use WPA2 and it's set to renew the key every hour. Every single hour at the exact same time on the dot my internet connection lags in 3 bursts which I'm assuming is during the key renewal. Exactly 6 minutes past the hour every time. It's so dependable it's become a running joke that when I'm playing with people online, whoever notices it's close to 6 past will announce it and then we'll all stop what we're doing while we wait for me to lag for several seconds. I've tinkered around with router settings, but it doesn't seem to change anything. I've also had lag spike problems long before this, and I'm not sure if they're related. I'd get intermittent spikes as well, but I only just recently noticed that's it's perfectly timed every hour. I think these hourly ones are due to the new router (which I've had for like 2 years now, but for some reason only recently seemed to have scheduled spikes), but the other lag spikes persisted through 3 operating systems, 2 routers, and 4 network adapters. My cable provider said everything was working fine on their end. The only constant has been my cable modem, which is an old Linksys cable modem / router combo from like 2005. Any suggestions? I have no problems replacing my cable modem, but I wouldn't have thought that was a problem since I had no issues for a few years until I started getting these spikes. (Naturally, it will probably turn out to be the one fucking piece of hardware I didn't replace) |
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Wireless Router WPA2 Key Renewal Lag Disconnect Dropped Connection by 07/14/2011, 10:10am PDT  I suppose you've already asked your cable provider if they'll replace your modem by 07/14/2011, 2:44pm PDT It's my own modem since it was cheaper than renting by 07/14/2011, 3:34pm PDT My ISP (Shaw) no longer charges a cable modem rental fee. by 07/14/2011, 4:29pm PDT |
