Gaming on Wireless Connection

[wheels]

I set up D LINK airplusG router and have annother computer wired to it and a wireless card in the laptop. I'm building a new computer very soon and my parents dont wany my computer in the room with the router so Im going to need to have wireless. SUrfing the internet, file transfers I know are no problem, but I am very worried about gaming. Will I have all kinds of latency problems, dropped from games, ect. or will it be just liked a wired connection(as long as signal and all that stuff is good). The laptop is like 35ft away and the signal stregnth is usuaully in the 90's and quality usually in 80's sometimes drops to 40-50's for a few seconds. My comp will probably be 50ft away. If any of that info can help. Thanks!!

I really think wireless is lame, unless your just surfing the net.....everyone is more concerned with the looks and size of everything. LCD monitors suck too. Sorry, had to add that

 

[Modder N Art]

Originally posted by: wheels
I set up D LINK airplusG router and have annother computer wired to it and a wireless card in the laptop. I'm building a new computer very soon and my parents dont wany my computer in the room with the router so Im going to need to have wireless. SUrfing the internet, file transfers I know are no problem, but I am very worried about gaming. Will I have all kinds of latency problems, dropped from games, ect. or will it be just liked a wired connection(as long as signal and all that stuff is good). The laptop is like 35ft away and the signal stregnth is usuaully in the 90's and quality usually in 80's sometimes drops to 40-50's for a few seconds. My comp will probably be 50ft away. If any of that info can help. Thanks!!

I really think wireless is lame, unless your just surfing the net.....everyone is more concerned with the looks and size of everything. LCD monitors suck too. Sorry, had to add that

I do small LAN parties here, with from one to several people on WiFi G, and it works fine. Game is UT2K4.

Your signal strength numbers seem funny. Usually I've seen signal strength expressed in -db, where the larger the number, the lower the signal. In this case, if your signal isn't at 50 or below, you may have problems with gaming. A directional antenna on your computer, aimed at the Router, can give you a noticable boost in signal strength.

And of course there's always LONG Cat5E cables... I have a 100 footer running to the living room for the Xbox.

Lisa

 

[wheels]

The signal strength is good, the signal quality is lower but not that bad, it moves around alot. I am not to worried about LAN games, I am asking about playing over the internet, my wired computers usually ping about 75-100 in counterstrike. I am just worried about when I play games using wireless on the internet.
I would test games out on the laptop, but it's not mine.

The only thing I notice on the wireless laptop is, when I go to a webpage it pauses for like 5 seconds then the whole page loads, but I think if the packets are constantly moving(like online games) there is no pauses really.


Mike

 

[Muscles]

I don't have wireless and I haven't used wireless for gaming but I asked this same question before myself some time ago. Most of the responses I got was that wireless sucks for gaming. It adds quite a few milliseconds to your ping. I'm into FPS games myself so NOT going wireless was a no brainer for me. I don't mind cables and I also don't mind the size of CRT's I agree that LCD monitors suck (for games).

 

[HKSturboKID]

I agree with your with the wireless and LCD. Thats y I rather use my 21" CRT to play games as to using my 19" lcd and run Long Cat 5 as to using wireless. I didn't even enable my wireless feature on my router.

 

[wheels]

Yeah, i dont care about cables or space saving either. yeah going wired seems like a no brainer for a gamer, but I have no choice. Even if I wanted to just bust out the long cat5 cables, the layout of my house is so weird...

 

[amdskip]

Do you have a basement or a crawl space? If you are in Arizona chances are you don't. I do not like wireless as a desktop solution.

 

[wheels]

Haha, nah I live in a one story house. Yeah like I said, I don't want wireless. Just need someone to tell me if I will lag on internet games, then I will feel better and not think about it so much.

 

[Zelmo3]

It only adds a few milliseconds to your latency. It works fine.
Get a wireless router and ping the router from your computer. You'll probably see that the round trip takes 4-6 ms at the most (I'm getting 1ms over my wireless connection), which will not impact your online gameplay.

 

[vfrjim]

I played a few games via a wireless connection, I had some packet-loss till I enabled QoS, then it was fine, you just have a few ms extra ping time. This is as long as your signals are fine(very good to excellent)

 

[aloser]

For what it's worth, I've never had any major problems - it works best when you're all on the same network though (for security mostly) - I have played both on our network and over the internet with no real difference. The only time I had problems was when playing over the internet - I think it was just my computer though (and it was so long ago).

 

[Kibbo]

I game on wireless for now (piggy backing on my exGF's internet acces, who lives in the apt downstairs).

It's ok. You get a bit more lag, but it's occasional. I will be soon getting my own access, and will go wired then.

 

[Abix]

I play wired directly connected to my wireless router, and my brother plays wireless down the hall about 35 feet. When we both play on the same NS server, he gets between 3-10ms boost over my normal 40-60ms. Not bad at all. He never lags out, and only time he has any disconnects, etc is when the server lags. We both also play Warcraft 3 and host many games and he has never complained about any noticable lag difference between my computer/his computer.