I see wi-fi antennae. What gamer settles for that?
I want to go to an estate agent and say “I want a house so wired that if I down 82 redbulls and punch through the drywall after losing a round of Call of Skyrim, anywhere in the house, I should be able to reach in the hole and pull out a bale of Cat 6.”
We’re living with my grandmother temporarily, and we don’t want the risk of trip hazard so had to get a good WiFi router.
It goes down whenever she uses the microwave - awesome for me, as I work from home.
Also we’re tied to using her ISPs router because we didn’t want to risk losing her phone number and other dramas moving to ours, so the modem router we use is theirs, and it sucks and the first two have blown up in the space of a year - we’re on our third.
Meanwhile our great equipment is sitting in plastic crates in the garage.
It’s on some dual band thing which can be split - I think we forgot to set it up on the last two, only bothered on the first. I can’t remember if the first went down when the microwave was used.
Personally I prefer to keep both bands on the same SSID/encryption scheme so devices automagically choose the best band depending on coverage. But it’s just my random opinion, lol.
But why would you lose her phone number using another router? I use the cable company’s shitty modem but I have a super nice router, no issues. If her landline phone is actually VoIP then it seems like it should still function with another router? Maybe I’m wrong on that. If it’s a true landline then one should have nothing to do with the other though. Oh and one more point if the car comp6just nukes her phone number and hands it to someone else because you hooked up a 3rd party router then seriously eff them.
In Australia, the phone number is tied to the ISP, and she’s with the biggest, worst one. We considered porting but the risk would be too great and she was too anxious about it.
We’re living here rent free, just paying our share of utilities and saving money while giving her company - I can’t complain too much about the small things!
I have a similar setup. Three monitors with the tower behind and a router on top. All hard-lined. Wifi is only for dumb shit like phones and handhelds.
Wifi 6 is pretty amazing. I play on it since my apartment has a weird layout and I will not drag a cable from one side of the apartment (where the router is) to the other (where the office is located).
Network latency averages somewhere around 5ms which is totally fine.
WiFi 5 pings are just 2x larger than a direct patch cord to the router. This is just a few microseconds difference. WiFi 6 is basically on par with cable. WiFi 7 is better than cable.
Gamers who don’t use WiFi are stuck in the stone age.
It kind of is. I have an 802.11ax router but about 20 ft away in another room it drops from 1,300 Mbps to about 400 Mbps. Kind of matters when you’re streaming uncompressed Blu-ray from the NAS.
Even with the latest and greatest WiFi I prefer still to opt for Ethernet/cabling wherever possible. I like to keep the WiFi workload light — I say this even though I’ve got business-class WiFi everywhere. It’s the principle of the thing; keep 4K streaming and other workload-heavy tasks off the air whenever possible.
Lies!
I see wi-fi antennae. What gamer settles for that?
I want to go to an estate agent and say “I want a house so wired that if I down 82 redbulls and punch through the drywall after losing a round of Call of Skyrim, anywhere in the house, I should be able to reach in the hole and pull out a bale of Cat 6.”
We’re living with my grandmother temporarily, and we don’t want the risk of trip hazard so had to get a good WiFi router.
It goes down whenever she uses the microwave - awesome for me, as I work from home.
Also we’re tied to using her ISPs router because we didn’t want to risk losing her phone number and other dramas moving to ours, so the modem router we use is theirs, and it sucks and the first two have blown up in the space of a year - we’re on our third.
Meanwhile our great equipment is sitting in plastic crates in the garage.
Oh well. Do it for her!
Yikes, if it’s going down when the microwave is being used it sounds like it only supports the 2 GHz channels.
It’s on some dual band thing which can be split - I think we forgot to set it up on the last two, only bothered on the first. I can’t remember if the first went down when the microwave was used.
Personally I prefer to keep both bands on the same SSID/encryption scheme so devices automagically choose the best band depending on coverage. But it’s just my random opinion, lol.
But why would you lose her phone number using another router? I use the cable company’s shitty modem but I have a super nice router, no issues. If her landline phone is actually VoIP then it seems like it should still function with another router? Maybe I’m wrong on that. If it’s a true landline then one should have nothing to do with the other though. Oh and one more point if the car comp6just nukes her phone number and hands it to someone else because you hooked up a 3rd party router then seriously eff them.
In Australia, the phone number is tied to the ISP, and she’s with the biggest, worst one. We considered porting but the risk would be too great and she was too anxious about it.
Dude that’s ridiculous!
We’re living here rent free, just paying our share of utilities and saving money while giving her company - I can’t complain too much about the small things!
I have a similar setup. Three monitors with the tower behind and a router on top. All hard-lined. Wifi is only for dumb shit like phones and handhelds.
Wifi 6 is pretty amazing. I play on it since my apartment has a weird layout and I will not drag a cable from one side of the apartment (where the router is) to the other (where the office is located).
Network latency averages somewhere around 5ms which is totally fine.
WiFi 5 pings are just 2x larger than a direct patch cord to the router. This is just a few microseconds difference. WiFi 6 is basically on par with cable. WiFi 7 is better than cable.
Gamers who don’t use WiFi are stuck in the stone age.
I’ll take a solid guaranteed gbps wire over sensitive “won’t pass through 2cm of concrete” wireless nonsense any day.
That’s not how it works.
It kind of is. I have an 802.11ax router but about 20 ft away in another room it drops from 1,300 Mbps to about 400 Mbps. Kind of matters when you’re streaming uncompressed Blu-ray from the NAS.
I don’t know what 20 ft means, but my PC is 2 walls away and there’s literally no drop in performance. Either your walls are bad or your WiFi is bad.
Well unfortunately I’m not blessed to have control over the quality of my walls. I’m positive my Ubiquiti U6 Professional is not the problem.
Also: https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=20+ft+to+m
Even with the latest and greatest WiFi I prefer still to opt for Ethernet/cabling wherever possible. I like to keep the WiFi workload light — I say this even though I’ve got business-class WiFi everywhere. It’s the principle of the thing; keep 4K streaming and other workload-heavy tasks off the air whenever possible.
It’s just silly.
Same, but CAT8 🙃
I invested in Cat6 for future proofing, only for it to turn out that there’s nothing Cat6 can do that Cat5e can’t. 🤦♂️
I wouldn’t feel too bad. I consider 5e trash because it’s really easy for it to downgrade to slower speeds if it happens to bend too far.
You have described my house.
The walls are made of patches after the nightmare install.
Looks like a router to me, in which case it’s probably for his phone and tv.
The pc is close enough to it to be hardwired