New house, bad internet connectionFollow

Wondering if I could get some help here.

When I first started WoW, I was on ATT/Yahoo DSL and never had problems. I setup my wireless router and got straight to playing, rarely experiencing bad latency.

I recently moved into a new house with a few friends (about 10-15 miles as the crow flies from my old house). We are on Yahoo/ATT DSL and their whole little package and I am once again using a wireless router.

Both routers are the Lynksys wireless routers, if that matters.


Now my problem, is ever since I have moved to this new location, I have been experiencing terrible latency. Sometimes it will be standard 30-200, then often it will jump to 700-1200+ for hours. Very unstable.

I am maybe about 10 feet further from the router than I was at my old house, and there are maybe 2 walls in between the router and my PC (not sure if either of those will matter).

Would anyone have an idea about this?

Also, this happens on both my laptop and my desktop(with a wireless card), so i don't think it is an individual computer.

(as I type, I thought about testing to see if the distance truly is the problem by taking my laptop right next to the router, and see if that fixes it.)

It's already password protected.

I do share the wireless with one other though (I am on wireless and he plugs into the router in his room), but I know it cannot be this as the other weekend he was gone for 4 days, and I was still experiencing this problem.

To add, it has gotten MUCH worse lately. I am constantly at 700ms+, and have only dipped below 300 one time in about 6 days now, which is even worse than when it started.

How do I refresh my IP manually? Is it as simple as disabling the wireless connection then enabling it again?

I guess my last resort it to haul my pc into his room and plug it in to the router, although that will open all kinds of hell, due to the fact my phone jack/dsl port in my room doesnt work with the router I own, somehow.

Maybe Power Cycle it. Turn everything the router is connected to, then turn the router completely off and wait a good 5-10 minutes. Turn it on wait for all the lights and stuff to come back on/stop blinking then turn you're computer back on and see how that goes. Works with my modem, atleast.

We all have cell phones. So no house phoen to test.


I think we do have filters from the phone jack outlet to the router, if filters are the 6in or so of extension from the phone jack that has dsl and phone ports.

Buy a signal repeater and plug it in half way between you and the router. should fix the isue.

So by what I gather you are using a high speed telephone connection.

It may have nothing to do with the ISP or your set up, you may have water leakage into your main telephone hub for the area. I had this exact same problem a few years ago (still do with home phone) I just switched to Cable ISP and all was well.

The only way this can be fixed is to have your phone lines tested, but it is a real pain in the butt to fix the problem, I have the phone company out about
5-6 times to fix it, and they never did get it right, thus why I changed to cable.

I just hope if you can get the phone company to acctually do a good job to fix the problem, if not I'd say switch to cable if you can.

I wish you luck on your long and annoying ordeal with the phone company. (if you choose to deal with them)