Is wireless G enough for gaming?

[ashwaterfire]

If I connect my Pc straight to my modem I cannot connect to any Cs:s servers...

Ive tried port forwarding and the whole nine..

I CAN connect to servers on the Wireless 54G Pci card I just bought, but how bad is it going to effect my online gamin experience compared to striaght wired to modem?

 

[InlineFive]

The killer will be ping and packet loss, I say go wired.

 

[JackMDS]

Link to: Wireless Bandwidth (Speed) and Latency.

:sun:

 

[aceO07]

I had lag spikes when I was using wireless 802.11g through usb adapter on my desktop to make wireless router 4 feet away.

 

[ashwaterfire]

yeah i get lag spikes too..

Im going to try another cable modem that only has one port and no wireless. and see if i can connect to servers

 

[Zelmo3]

Wireless is plenty fast for gaming (my 802.11b router pings under 2 milliseconds, from across the house and one floor up). You can fix the lag spikes by turning off the Wireless Zero Config service after you're connected.

 

[ashwaterfire]

Originally posted by: Zelmo3
Wireless is plenty fast for gaming (my 802.11b router pings under 2 milliseconds, from across the house and one floor up). You can fix the lag spikes by turning off the Wireless Zero Config service after you're connected.

can you explain how to do that?

 

[ktwebb]

Originally posted by: Zelmo3
Wireless is plenty fast for gaming (my 802.11b router pings under 2 milliseconds, from across the house and one floor up). You can fix the lag spikes by turning off the Wireless Zero Config service after you're connected.

Correct. .11b is fast enough for gaming. Hell, 900Mhz 802.11 2Mb is fast enough for online gaming. If the wireless environment is friendly and you know what your doing.

 

[Zelmo3]

Originally posted by: ashwaterfire
can you explain how to do that?

Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services
Near the bottom is Wireless Zero Configuration Service. It's probably set to Auto (or whatever). Tell it to stop, and your spikes will go away.
Note that it has to be turned on to connect to the network at first, so if you reboot and can't connect to the network, turn that service on until you're connected, and then turn it back off.

 

[ktwebb]

A quicker way is to just run the net stop from the run box

Start, Run, type Net Stop wzcsvc

Net Start if you need to start it again.

 

[ashwaterfire]

very cool i nfo I will give it a shot

 

[VirtualLarry]

Not all "lag spikes" on wireless are caused by WZC. I had a Linksys WUSB54Gv2 USB2.0 NIC, and in XP's Task Manager under the Networking tab, it had a profile with periodic lags in it - for some reason, that seems to have been caused by the NIC driver itself. I have since replaced that NIC with another router in WDS mode with my primary router, and there are no more notable lags, and overall both the client PC and the network seem a bit snappier.

So if you suffer from WiFi lags, consider using another router/AP and WDS/bridging instead of a NIC.

 

[ashwaterfire]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
So if you suffer from WiFi lags, consider using another router/AP and WDS/bridging instead of a NIC.

What?

 

[ktwebb]

WDS bridging would have a driverless device associate wirelessly to the access point and forward all packets to an ethernet port, to which you would hook up your computer to via ethernet cable. So, Router/AP---(wireless to)---bridge---(wired to)---PC

You'd have to buy another device to do the bridging. I wouldn't worry too much about that solution.