I had this problem on Windows XPSP2 where my wireless connection kept spiking and dropping out every 30 secs or so. I managed to solve this finding this thread:
hxxp://www.geekstogo.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=101910
The guy managed to stop it by disabling "Wireless Zero Config" in the Windows XP Services dialog, this also worked for me!
However, I've recently made the move to Windows Vista, which i'm quite happy with up until I look at the pings. It appears my problem has popped up again. However, I can't find the equivilant of "Wireless Zero Config" on Vista.
Anyone have any ideas what they could have renamed it to? Or even intergrated it into something else (I hope not!)
Heres the type of spikes im having:
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64 Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64 Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=2ms TTL=64 Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64 Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64 Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=1403ms TTL=64 Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=2ms TTL=64 Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64 Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=2ms TTL=64 Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
Cheers,
Oliver