This is one of those useful pieces of information that a lot of gamers don't know. Running Vista on a wireless connection for gaming is horrifyingly broken.

If you are:

1> Running Vista

2> Have a wireless connection to your modem/router

3> Are experiencing lurches in your game every 60 seconds (I'm given to understand that the command /netgraph 1 will give you detailed information on this)

then you have just been diagnosed. The problem is being caused by Vista, specifically the process by which Vista auto-searches for new wireless hotspots to connect to, which happens every 60 seconds like clockwork and demands your wireless connection's attention for a game-killing 3 seconds or so.

As of the time of this writing, I have not heard of a fix from Microsoft. However, there are a few third party apps that will fix it. I will post the links for them when I get home from work.

I've tried to set this up several ways. I've tried typing all of the below, but I am getting error message from the cmd prompt:


C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k netsh wlan set autoconfig enabled=yes interface=Wireless Network Connection DTT

Gives me the error that the paremeters are not correct...

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k netsh wlan set autoconfig enabled=no interface=DTT

Then this tells me no such device exists, even though this is my connection name.


Then I even went into my computer to see what Windows calls the device, thinking that may work:

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k netsh wlan set autoconfig enabled=yes interface=WPN824V3

Same message as above.

What am I doing wrong? >_<

Looks like you need to include the " " on the connection name. Here is another link to a differnt forum that has better instructions that may help. http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1380507