• jaschen@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Latency is the name of the game if you’re gaming. Copper will always give you the fastest ping times compared to the fastest wifi you can buy.

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      1 year ago

      Wireless has a lower minimum latency than wired, that’s why trading houses set up relay towers from Chicago to NYC, in order to achieve the lowest possible latency for their trades between the two markets.

      Wired gives better stability, due to almost zero interference noise. The primary cause of sucky WiFi speeds/stability, is having too many other people’s routers nearby.

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        1 year ago

        No shit?

        I mean copper runs at 2/3 the speed of light.

        Wireless is pretty much the speed of light.

        I thought they used dedicated fiber for their links.

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        1 year ago

        Not even 5 ms. I have a properly set up Wi-Fi at home and you’ll feel no difference in gaming. Wi-Fi only adds like 1-2 ms latency at most.

        • tfw_no_toiletpaper@feddit.de
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          1 year ago

          Is the notebook or desktop wifi NIC and antenna important or only the router? Because when I had a shitty laptop a few years back the latency sucked ass, both at home and at my university (where I hope they had good network components but idk)