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0 pointswazoox5y ago0 comments

WiFi has terrible latency. Try playing a multiplayer FPS with wired networking and compare with WiFi. Or simply use remote desktop with WiFi.

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Whatever wifi you're using is probably overloaded. You can easily have a one millisecond ping to your access point.

wazooxOP5y ago

I have an under 2 ms ping to my AP, but WiFi has terrible buffer bloat, so ping latency doesn't mean much actually.

Any idea what the state of the art is for reducing buffer bloat on access points?

And you can mitigate that by not using tons of bandwidth in the background while gaming.

snvzz5y ago

Terrible latency _and_ packet drop.

I only use wifi where I cannot attach a cable. I will run 15m ethernet cable on an apartment's floor if I have to, in order not to have to use wifi.

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