- May 15, 2011
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Okay, so in the past GRID had worked poorly for me. Though my 2.4 ghz network (from my AT&T supplied Arris NVG589 modem/router) wasn't optimal I was able to start various games and get into them somewhat though sooner or later I would have a pause during game play.
I looked into setting up a separate router, but from what I read the newer AC ones were basically meant to compensate for the fact that there was a lot more traffic and thus congestion in my house, so as an experiment I turned off all my other wifi devices including my chromecast, my u-verse wireless receiver for a TV in another room, my laptop, my kindle fire, my old galaxy tab, everything but the shield tablet. I didn't even have a shield controller so that wasn't using wifi either.
I tested repeatedly for a better channel, tweaked some settings on the router.... and after doing this my speed (via Ookla) improved over 50%, from under 20mpbs to over 30 on the shield tablet.
I went to grid and had it do a connection test, and every time it tells me I have an optimal connection for streaming. Great.
Now when I go into a game, no matter what game.... I never even get to the load screen. I just get the spinning circle, and I once gave it an hour and it never got out of that. I tried what I thought were the least demanding games on GRID as an experiment, no go, not one of them.
And I used to at least get to the loading screen. I can't understand what is going on? I don't want to buy a new router if I don't need one and based on what I am seeing here the wifi isn't the problem. I'll admit that since I had poor performance before it had been a couple months since I had tried getting GRID to work (besides I was too involved with Dragon Age Inquisition for much of it on my PC so didn't worry about it). But now I really want to get this working especially if this isn't going to remain free much longer...
Any ideas?
I looked into setting up a separate router, but from what I read the newer AC ones were basically meant to compensate for the fact that there was a lot more traffic and thus congestion in my house, so as an experiment I turned off all my other wifi devices including my chromecast, my u-verse wireless receiver for a TV in another room, my laptop, my kindle fire, my old galaxy tab, everything but the shield tablet. I didn't even have a shield controller so that wasn't using wifi either.
I tested repeatedly for a better channel, tweaked some settings on the router.... and after doing this my speed (via Ookla) improved over 50%, from under 20mpbs to over 30 on the shield tablet.
I went to grid and had it do a connection test, and every time it tells me I have an optimal connection for streaming. Great.
Now when I go into a game, no matter what game.... I never even get to the load screen. I just get the spinning circle, and I once gave it an hour and it never got out of that. I tried what I thought were the least demanding games on GRID as an experiment, no go, not one of them.
And I used to at least get to the loading screen. I can't understand what is going on? I don't want to buy a new router if I don't need one and based on what I am seeing here the wifi isn't the problem. I'll admit that since I had poor performance before it had been a couple months since I had tried getting GRID to work (besides I was too involved with Dragon Age Inquisition for much of it on my PC so didn't worry about it). But now I really want to get this working especially if this isn't going to remain free much longer...
Any ideas?
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