• @LePoisson
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    132 months ago

    Is it more simple in that it requires less physical stuff. Sure. But it’s impossible to get the wifi to be as good as wired provided you’re jacked into the modem (switch) itself.

    It can get almost as good though with modern tech.

    • @iopq
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      2 months ago

      I don’t need as good. What am I going to do with 1Gb/s? My internet is 100Mb/s

      The connection in the other room has 1-2ms delay. The wired connection has 0.5ms delay so it’s not even a full 1 ms advantage in latency.

      • @Alexstarfire
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        122 months ago

        Wired has much more stable latency though. Matters for online games.

        • @iopq
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          12 months ago

          The highest ping is like 3 ms, that’s not going to make a difference when my ping is 120ms. Let me remind you the pings over the wire can spike a millisecond too

          • @Alexstarfire
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            12 months ago

            Not while it’s within my house it can’t. Packets can get lost just going to the router over wifi.

            • @iopq
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              12 months ago

              They can, but they don’t. I pinged for an hour and didn’t lose any

        • @[email protected]
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          12 months ago

          That does depend heavily on the RF environment you’re in. If your house is more remote and not surrounded by other wifi networks it will be pretty stable, plenty good enough for online gaming.

    • Lucy :3
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      12 months ago

      I’m limited by my ether port and switch to Gigabit, usually ~950 Mbps, but I can get ~1100 Mbps, which is the ISPs limit, over WiFi. So if you only have Gigabit ethernet components, but a bit over Gigabit internet, WiFi can be faster. Not nearly as stable, though.