Im visiting a friend who's staying at College Inn (or whatever its called). I can browse resnet internet on my laptop, but CS Source wont connect to any servers or download a serverlist. Im not that good with networks. Any ideas?

I figure theres gotta be someone here who has a wireless connection on campus AND plays CS.

BTW, it works fine on my home network. I've refreshed the firewall permissions too.

[Edited on August 2, 2005 at 12:26 AM. Reason : .]

8/2/2005 12:14:34 AM

if you're using the Nvidia firewall, disable it. I had the same problem until I disabled Nvidia firewall and went to just using the Windows firewall. Your problem doesn't have anything to do with the wireless connection.

8/2/2005 8:26:45 AM

Nope, dont have nvidia firewall.

8/2/2005 10:00:48 AM

Have you tried playing CS on campus first?

I'd think there would be substantial packet loss when connecting through wireless.

Not that this is why you can't connect.

8/2/2005 10:34:31 AM

can you get the server list if you disable windows firewall?

8/2/2005 10:40:37 AM

my guess is the network you're connecting to has block certain ports that are preventing you from accessing game servers.. i won't be surprised if College Inn did that to prevent people from eating up all the bandwidth, which is already limited for that complex.. if i'm not mistaken

8/2/2005 11:28:44 AM

btw ... resnet is not the isp for college inn ... not sure who is

8/2/2005 8:14:36 PM

27105 iirc

8/2/2005 8:23:11 PM

Hmm, well im getting an unsecured wireless network called "ncsu". When I first opened my internet browser after connecting, it took me to a "nomad" login page that accepted my unity login and password.

Now Im getting a handful of servers with insanely high pings. In that case its probably due to the signal being relatively weak (yet consistent). Oh well

[Edited on August 3, 2005 at 7:16 AM. Reason : .]

8/3/2005 7:16:16 AM

Why don't you just plug in, instead of trying to use wireless anyways? It won't be fast enough for you to play CSS.

8/3/2005 8:14:11 AM

If you get a decent signal (low packet loss), wireless is just as good as wired for gaming, even 802.11b.

8/3/2005 8:52:14 AM

can someone recommend a wireless router for gaming, other than the D-Link DGL-4300? I know the WRT54G doesn't do the job well.

8/3/2005 10:51:32 AM

btw cs:source eats up very little bandwidth, we're talking a maximum of somewhere around 5kbps up and down.

8/3/2005 11:55:31 AM

What are you talking about? The WRT54G is the SHIT.

8/3/2005 12:06:08 PM

I would get bad lag spikes every couple seconds, but after I directly plugged into the router the issue went away. I had QoS and everything set up on it.

8/3/2005 12:11:55 PM

Same thing used to happen to me on my desktop at home. A router firmware update fixed it (same router).

8/3/2005 12:28:18 PM

Things could interfere with your router signal.

Cordless Phones.

Bluetooth.

etc.

8/3/2005 12:33:04 PM

my wrt54g goes to crap after being on for 24+ hours. dns just stops working, can't connect to shit.

i'll ping the router and only 25% success rate

[Edited on August 3, 2005 at 12:38 PM. Reason : .]

8/3/2005 12:38:37 PM

^^ not when your cordless phones are 5 GHz and you don't have any bluetooth devices. Fact of the matter is the WRT54G doesn't quite get the job done. It's great for normal use but any online game has tremendous lag.

8/3/2005 1:06:59 PM

Prevailing opinion in Tech Talk is that the WRT54G is a great router for home use. It's probably the user, not the router.

8/3/2005 2:22:43 PM

it is almost certainly a PEBKAC error.

8/3/2005 2:25:32 PM

^ haha. Seriously, I've tried damn near everything to try to fix it. I have high hopes for it's newest firmware that I haven't tried out though (version 4.20.6). If you guys wanna come over and fix it, then by all means please do. I spent weeks trying to fix it.

8/3/2005 3:18:00 PM