ATypicalPerson wrote Hey I have a problem that I need help with if any one knows whats wrong.

I have my Xbox connected by Ethernet cord to my PC. My PC is connected to my home WiFi which comes from the wireless router connected to the modem which is in the room next to mine. On my PC I have the WiFi connection bridged with the Ethernet Xbox connection so I can be on Xbox live (I have an older Xbox 360 without built in WiFi).

Here's how everything is connected if you didn't understand:

modem->router->PC->Xbox

My problem is that I get lag spikes about every 10 minutes so when I'm in a game on Black Ops for example, I don't get disconnected from Xbox live, but I disconnected from the game I was in and have to find a new one.

I've tried:
- re-bridging the connections
- restarting my computer
- restarting my Xbox
- restarting my router
- restarting my modem
- manually setting up my Xbox's ip address and all that

So far nothing has helped at all. So if anyone has had a similar problem and/or knows whats wrong, please reply and help!

you will always have more lag when either having more networking devices in between the client machine and the modem/gateway or when using a system to bridge the network connection to a client especially when the host computer is not intended or optimized to process and handle the communication in between the gateway and the client machine, let alone that the host is going off Wifi which slows the communication down as well and creates a lot more lag and increases the ping for the console. In other words any of this

- re-bridging the connections
- restarting my computer
- restarting my Xbox
- restarting my router
- restarting my modem
- manually setting up my Xbox's ip address and all that"

will have no effect on the issue you are having your best bet would be to setup the bridge with proper port forwarding then give the bridged connection higher process priority as well as making sure you have the bare minimum of programs and services running on the host PC ie do not have any web browser or torrent/gaming updates pretty much anything unnecessary for the pc to be on and to host the bridged connection. doing this while using the bridge for gaming will decrease your ping as well as improve the speed at which the Host can handle serving information in between the router and the Xbox though you may still get dropped for having to high of a ping from EA and COD servers.

vokal wrote you will always have more lag when either having more networking devices in between the client machine and the modem/gateway or when using a system to bridge the network connection to a client especially when the host computer is not intended or optimized to process and handle the communication in between the gateway and the client machine, let alone that the host is going off Wifi which slows the communication down as well and creates a lot more lag and increases the ping for the console. In other words any of this
"- re-bridging the connections
- restarting my computer
- restarting my Xbox
- restarting my router
- restarting my modem
- manually setting up my Xbox's ip address and all that"
will have no effect on the issue you are having your best bet would be to setup the bridge with proper port forwarding then give the bridged connection higher process priority as well as making sure you have the bare minum of programs or services running on the host PC ie no web browser or torrent/gaming updates pretty much anything unnecessary for the pc to be on and to host the bridged connection. while using the bridge for gaming this will decrease your ping as well as improve the speed in which the Host can server information in between the router and the Xbox

Alright thanks. I'll try that.

Also I forgot to mention that I have a wirless adapter for my xbox to connect it to the home wifi but the same thing happens with that connection. It's constantly going from slow to fast and disconnecting from games. The internet speed is fine (I can go onto youtube and play a 1080p HD video without waiting for it to load) so maybe my xbox is dieing or something. It's the older xbox without built in wifi.

ATypicalPerson wrote

vokal wrote you will always have more lag when either having more networking devices in between the client machine and the modem/gateway or when using a system to bridge the network connection to a client especially when the host computer is not intended or optimized to process and handle the communication in between the gateway and the client machine, let alone that the host is going off Wifi which slows the communication down as well and creates a lot more lag and increases the ping for the console. In other words any of this
"- re-bridging the connections
- restarting my computer
- restarting my Xbox
- restarting my router
- restarting my modem
- manually setting up my Xbox's ip address and all that"
will have no effect on the issue you are having your best bet would be to setup the bridge with proper port forwarding then give the bridged connection higher process priority as well as making sure you have the bare minum of programs or services running on the host PC ie no web browser or torrent/gaming updates pretty much anything unnecessary for the pc to be on and to host the bridged connection. while using the bridge for gaming this will decrease your ping as well as improve the speed in which the Host can server information in between the router and the Xbox

Alright thanks. I'll try that.

Also I forgot to mention that I have a wirless adapter for my xbox to connect it to the home wifi but the same thing happens with that connection. It's constantly going from slow to fast and disconnecting from games. The internet speed is fine (I can go onto youtube and play a 1080p HD video without waiting for it to load) so maybe my xbox is dieing or something. It's the older xbox without built in wifi.

are you using a old 360 wifi card or the one of the newer N cards? if its one of the older 54mbs cards it may be dieing, if you have a N router and have not changed the default setting for the wifi speed you may want to check that its set to 300mbs+ instead of the default 54mbs that some manufacturers like to set them too.

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vokal wrote are you using a old 360 wifi card or the one of the newer N cards? if its one of the older 54mbs cards it may be dieing, if you have a N router and have not changed the default setting for the wifi speed you may want to check that its set to 300mbs+ instead of the default 54mbs that some manufacturers like to set them too.

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Alright well I just need to remember how to even get to that page and then I'll check that. Thanks.

Ok I have a wireless n 150 router that is set to go up to 150mbps.