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2 routers, 2 cable modems - one house

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bozilla

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Ok, in efforts to make my living room gaming as fast as possible, I am thinking of getting another wifi router and modem for the living room to use with gaming. Is this possible?

Here's why. I have a 2 story house. My home office is located in the loft on the second level. I have a router set-up and my XBox360 is picking up a wifi signal and I am using it to connect to XBox Live etc. This all works great but I'm not really able to measure at what speed XBox 360 is connecting to wifi connection.

Now when I set-up my gaming computer in the living room. I want to connect it to broadband, but I'm afraid that slower wifi connection (Xbox360 is showing this as 4 boxes out of 5 in the connection meter) might produce unplayable lag/ping when I try to play online games on my living room computer.

Do you think it would cause a bad connection?

Now as a possible alternative I was trying to think of a way to connect my living room computer directly to the network. I have a cable plug in the living room as well, but I don't know if I can use another cable modem on it and connect that one directly to the computer. Since I thought this might not work, I guess might have to get another router and use that one in the living room. Does this makes any sense?

Thanks.
 
Second cable modem will most likely mean double the charges from the cable company. Better off to run yourself some ethernet cable downstairs to a 4 port switch, and then plug the pc and xbox into that.
 
Are you saying that the weekest signal in your network has a strength of 4 out of 5? While these numbers some what vary btw devices, I think you are safe. A second modem is overkill. Your actual internet connection's speed will probably be the bottleneck in your network, not your wifi bandwidth.
 
If you really want to be sure, position a computer where the XBox is, connect it to the network over wireless, and do an actual network speed test. You can use a program like TTCP to test the speed.
 
If your getting a good reception in the living room then you should be fine running both other wireless. What I don't know is while your playing both at the sametime what the performance would be. It all depends on your connections. If you already have the hardware then give it a try. If playing both at the sametime cause problems, then you need to make sure it's not a conflict of the gaming (uploads) not the wireless. I'm betting you should be fine running both over wireless as long as your getting a good connection.

Me, I've never played a game over wireless, but have several friends that don't have a problem.
 
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