Connection lost in online games

[vercat]

Hey, I have had the Bell Sympatico high speed internet and a Linksys WRT54G router for several years now with no problems but recently i have had some connection issues.
Browsing the net is fine (occasional hickups), but when it comes to things such as online games, im having problems. What is happening is the connection does not drop right away, instead it kinda pauses and than I get connection lost.
( the 2 green lights on the router stay on, instead of flashing when internet is in use. the connection to the server drops, and then my internet comes back on again)
Its happening when im on the internet too but its so quick, like i will hit refresh and its back again. its only like a second. but in games it waits untill im disconnected from the server than it comes back.

Its happening to all 3 of the computers I have at my house. I called Bell Sympatico, and they said my connection is good. they told me to run a spyware app's (i did, nothing came up)

couple of things i have tryed allready

- spyware app's
- antivirus
- upgrade router firmware
- resetting router
- ipconfig /all
- netsh dump

 

[TheMostWantedPolishTwin]

you should have posted that in networking subforum.. anyways.. I'm not a networking gawd, but here are my ideas..
the easiest way to find out whether it's problem with the connection itself or your AP is to connect your computer directly to whatever device your ISP gave you.. and maybe continously ping the gameserver (or any website) and redirect output to a file, so you know when you've lost connection how long it lasted and so on..

 

[BinarySynapse]

I have a Linksys B router that drops my connection whenever I get some hugh traffic (more than 300k) going. I've also read that a lot of Linksys' routers have problems like this. Both B and G. I don't think anyones found a fix yet except that it may be heat or interference related. Ever since my wife broke the end of her notebook wireless card off, I removed the router from the chain and haven't had a connection problem since.