Mouse/Keyboard Lag on Wireless Laptop

August 5, 2007 1:39 AM from

I recently started using Multiplicity Pro 1.01 and I'm having a serious problem with it.

My setup is the desktop (dual monitor) as the primary and my laptop (connected by wireless Linksys xxx.xxx.x.xx3). With this setup, Multiplicity works on the laptop but the mouse and keyboard are extremely laggy to a point where its unusable. If I plug the laptop directly in to the router so it isnt wireless (xxx.xxx.x.xx5) then Multiplicity works great on the laptop. My screen setup is <--Laptop - 1 - 2 -->

I hope there's a setting that would make it work better with the wireless connection that I don't know about. Also, turning off my firewall or vscanner didn't improve the lag on the laptop.

Any advice would be appreciated.

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Reply #1 August 5, 2007 5:03 AM from

WinCustomize Forums Top

It sounds like your wireless network has terrible latency or is suffering from interference and is having to constantly resend packets.

Also make sure there are no settings on the router which combine packets for 'better performance'. That will increase bandwidth efficiency at a cost of latency.

If you ping each the secondary from the primary what sort of delay do you get?

Reply #2 August 7, 2007 2:01 AM from

Stardock Forums Top

I pinged my DNS from the wireless to the router and got this.

C:\>ping xx.xx.x.xx

Pinging xx.xx.x.xx with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from xx.xx.x.xx: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=246
Reply from xx.xx.x.xx: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=246
Reply from xx.xx.x.xx: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=246
Reply from xx.xx.x.xx: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=246

Ping statistics for xx.xx.x.xx:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 14ms, Maximum = 23ms, Average = 17ms

Besides Multiplicity, when I'm wireless with the laptop everything is as fast as it is when I'm plugged directly in to the router so I don't think its the connection. I also checked the router settings and didn't see anything that combined packets, but I didn't really know what to look for either.

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