Slow Internet On Fibre Optic

[RATTER15]

Myself and my good lady Carakeel both play World of Warcraft.
Moving to our new house a few weeks ago we are struggling to get a good enough frame rate to play. we are sometimes only getting 1 or 2 frames per second, to play smoothly we need at least 10 frames per second.

I ran a speed test with the following results:

40.13Mb Download speed

9.15Mb upload

28ms ping time

[Fitzer]

While I know nothing about gaming those speeds all look pretty good to me but it does rather depend on what you're paying for and with whom.

[RATTER15]

We are paying for Fibre Optic through sky.

[Fitzer]

From Sky's website 'Sky Fibre has the most reliably consistent speeds measured by Ofcom for up to 38Mb broadband.²' so you're speeds are somewhat faster, must be something else causing the problem

[CrapAtCryptics]

Would this be on a laptop or desktop - my wifi came up at those sort of figures when first changed over. I had a Broadcom wireless card in my laptop so I switched it for an Intel 7260ac card ( £16 ) and it went up to a steady 88. Fitting it was a remove panel and one screw and add new driver job. If its a desktop Amazon has a range of modern dongles or cards that should help. Did you try updating your wifi driver on your existing card.

[hc4361]

Have your machines got plenty of RAM and fast processors?

[hc4361]

40 Mbps is plenty fast enough foe Warcraft.

[RATTER15]

I have 4 gig of ram and Dual CPU 2x 1.80 GHZ on a 64 bit system running windows 10.

[hc4361]

I think your CPU isn't up to scratch. WoW keeps updating and requires more and more power.

Do you use a WoW forum? You would get good opinions about your CPU for the game there

[RATTER15]

I think it is my graphics card, I am getting a new one in a couple of days, I need to upgrade to a shader 3 compatible card it appears.

[hc4361]

Fingers crossed that does the trick.

[RATTER15]

Is there a programme that will read my PC and advise me on a more powerful chip set to suit?

[pinkyboyid]

Have you tried testing with an Ethernet network cable connected from your computer direct to your ISP router and with the computer wireless computer network card disabled?

[RATTER15]

Yes, done all that, made no difference as my router is only 6 feet from my PC.

[Togo]

http://www.ehow.co.uk/how_7207387_scan-pc-suitable-graphics-card.html

This is one site Ratters. When my son was wowing I seem to remember that your power supply could limit the type of graphics card that was viable. The git once clocked my pc to get better speed and stop lag and cooked the ruddy graphics card. Cost me £120 to replace it. He may be up to see me soon I will pick his brains.

[Togo]

http://elitegamingcomputers.com/the-best-video-cards-for-gaming

This also has good info Ratters. No download req either.

[RATTER15]

Togo, thanks for that, unfortunately if you dont understand the terms used and the array of numbers presented, it is of little use.

My new graphics card will be here tomorrow or Saturday, I will see how that improves things.

[Togo]

Just spoke to my son Ratters. His initial thoughts when I showed him your spec was that your CPU was a bit dated as quadcore is standard these days. He does however agree that a new Graphics card will be a great help as would be additional RAM. Once you start changing motherboards and power supplies you enter techie land with fan specs and all sorts to consider. Good luck.

[RATTER15]

Thanks Togo.