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Wireless vs RG45 for gaming

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TD77077

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How much slower is wireless networking for on-line gaming? Current router (friend) is 802.11b. I'm asking real life, not theoretical.

Anyone compared?

Thanks.
 
If your signal is crappy and you're having to retransmit a ton of packets, your performance is going to suffer. Likewise, expect half of whatever speed it says you're connected at, so if you're connected at 11mbps, expect 5.5. If your connection is faster than that (which my cable connection is) then you wont see your max speed, and your performance will suffer.

Under perfect conditions you shouldnt see much of a difference. As was stated, probably less than 10ms difference.
 
Originally posted by: Boscoh
If your signal is crappy and you're having to retransmit a ton of packets, your performance is going to suffer. Likewise, expect half of whatever speed it says you're connected at, so if you're connected at 11mbps, expect 5.5. If your connection is faster than that (which my cable connection is) then you wont see your max speed, and your performance will suffer.

Under perfect conditions you shouldnt see much of a difference. As was stated, probably less than 10ms difference.
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I have a hard time believing your cable faster than 5.5mbps. Even Optimun Online, the fastest cable ISP I know is not even that fast.
 
Originally posted by: jonmullen
Originally posted by: Boscoh
If your signal is crappy and you're having to retransmit a ton of packets, your performance is going to suffer. Likewise, expect half of whatever speed it says you're connected at, so if you're connected at 11mbps, expect 5.5. If your connection is faster than that (which my cable connection is) then you wont see your max speed, and your performance will suffer.

Under perfect conditions you shouldnt see much of a difference. As was stated, probably less than 10ms difference.
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I have a hard time believing your cable faster than 5.5mbps. Even Optimun Online, the fastest cable ISP I know is not even that fast.
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When I'm home from school, I'm on RoadRunner in Houston, TX. During I'd say the first couple months of their network upgrade, my speed tests were showing around 6mbps down, and about 500kbps up, and my downloads were around 500KBps, it was very nice. Most of the time though, the speed tests hover between 3mbps and 4mbps down, and around 300 up.

Up at school, I've got Earthlink, and it stays pretty consistant around 2mbps down, 100 up.
 
Thanks for all the info. everyone. Very useful. I guess we'll try wireless first and see how it goes. EZ to change later.

TD
 
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