Wireless ethernet media bridge or pci/pci-e card

[tygeezy]

I'm moving into a home where a wired connection won't be possible unfortunately for my gaming desktop. I have played on wireless several years ago with an old wireless pci card and had some issues with lag in games. The wireless connection is a 2 wire att g router that is upstairs, my room is downstairs. I'm wondering if anybody had some suggestions between an ethernet media bridge or pci/pci-e wireless card.

 

[JackMDS]

Your best chance is to get a Wireless Router that can be flashed with DD-WRT.

Place the Router next to the gaming Desktop, and configure the Router as a Wireless Bridge.

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Wireless_Bridge

Then plug the computer to the bridge with a Cat6 cable.

If the Bridge is far away from the main Wireless Router buy one that also have a removable external Antenna and use a High Gain directional Antenna on it.

Why this arrangement?

By Doing the Wireless reception through a wireless Router that act as a Bridge the Wireless is strong, more stable, and insert less lag than the Wireless that comes through a wireless computer card.

The computer under this arrangement works as a Cable connected computer and thus does not suffer from any Wireless trouble of its own.

The idea above is basically creating your own Media Bridge with additional flexibilities. Using a ready made Media Bridge is a matter of personal call. They are usually expensive and most of them "su**" performance wise.

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P.S. All of the above is just the principle.

It might be that the 2Wire G main Wireless can not work well to begin with and nothing wireless will work well with it for gaming.

In such a case you should Upgrade the whole system with an Additional Dual Band Wireless Router acting as an Access Point connected directly to the 2Wire Router.

 

[tygeezy]

You know, I actually have a two year old asus router that I uploaded tomato on. I can probably turn that device into a wireless bridge. I'll give that a go and see how it works. Thanks for the info!

 

[Engineer]

You know, I actually have two year old asus router that I uploaded tomato on. I can probably turn that device into a wireless bridge. I'll give that a go and see how it works. Thanks for the info!

I have done this with several routers and it (so far) has worked far better than any wireless card (PCI/PCIx) or USB wireless that I've tried, period.

 

[Vincent]

In my experience powerline ethernet and MoCA adapters provide faster and more reliable service than wireless. I would explore those options before spending more time investigating wireless.

 

[Engineer]

In my experience powerline ethernet and MoCA adapters provide faster and more reliable service than wireless. I would explore those options before spending more time investigating wireless.

That depends. I've used the 200Mbps powerline and was able to max it out at 20Mbps on PC to PC transfers. I've used 5GHz wireless bridges with Tomato and have been able to get sustained 18MB(ytes)/sec transfer rates. I get no lower than 12MB(ytes)/sec transfer rate using such a setup right now. The cost was $50 total for one refurbished Linksys E2000 and one NEW Belkin HD 600 router. Both flashed with Tomato and running on 5GHz band (Belkin is simultaneous dual band access point at the moment).

As for interference, I just overpower my neighbors with the 3 access points in my house and run full speed ahead! :biggrin:

 

[tygeezy]

I saw those ethernet wall adapters. They looked kind of neat. Since I happen to have a decent router that runs tomato, I will just use it as a wireless bridge. If the performance isn't to my liking I will probably look at a solid n router and turn the 2 wire into modem only mode. Those moca adapters seem interesting as well but a tad expensive.

 

[tygeezy]

Well, I successfully configured my router as a client bridge and everything has been working smoothly. Then I was told one of the dvr's upstairs seems to not be working as long as my router is up and running. The remote seems to have a problem sending a signal to the dvr. It is as if the router is interfering with the remotes ability to send a signal to the dvr.