Any wireless gamers out here?

petemyster · 17 Sep 2011 at 13:04

Hey guys. I was wondering if anyone here plays games on their PC on their wireless?

I'm forced into a position where I need to play on a wireless network and I was just wondering if anyone has any router recommendations for me? The signal strength needs to be good and stretch across 1 floor, through 3 walls.

TNGL · 17 Sep 2011 at 13:31

I used to and it used to be fine; until the wireless connection slowly degraded (due to the adapter I think). I then switched to wired and it was much better than the degraded wireless signal, but was no better than the wireless connection when it was fine.

petemyster · 17 Sep 2011 at 13:38

Tingle said:
I used to and it used to be fine; until the wireless connection slowly degraded (due to the adapter I think). I then switched to wired and it was much better than the degraded wireless signal, but was no better than the wireless connection when it was fine.

What router were you using?

Mike1983 · 17 Sep 2011 at 14:10

Although not directly answering your question (sorry for that) have you considered using homeplugs instead? You'd probably get a far superior connection that's more suitable for gaming than a wifi connection.

rustynuts · 17 Sep 2011 at 14:12

Im using a Asus USB-N13 had it about 8 months and never run into any problems. I play upstairs in the spair room..

TNGL · 17 Sep 2011 at 14:30

petemyster said:
What router were you using?

The standard one Virgin Media used to give its customers, Netgear WNR2000v2.

ran_out · 17 Sep 2011 at 15:05

I still game wirelessly, but in the same room as the router and with full signal strength - I just don't want any trailing cables.

In my old house I was wireless on a different floor - i'd recommend using a good pci/non usb adaptor and a high gain antenna - couldn't say with regards to a good router but the high gain antenna to plug into the adaptor made a lot of difference - and you can also position it easily in the best place for reception.

Azuse05 · 17 Sep 2011 at 15:10

Wifi tends to add 1ms, nothing more, since it's one way com. Provided your routers cpu isn't maxed out it'll be fine, although running a wire is better imo

petemyster · 17 Sep 2011 at 16:14

Azuse05 said:
Wifi tends to add 1ms, nothing more, since it's one way com. Provided your routers cpu isn't maxed out it'll be fine, although running a wire is better imo

Yea ping isn't the problem, just from my experience of wireless gaming was that every 30 seconds or so you would get a 3 second lag spike. I put that down to bad routing and that there were wireless telephones around.

roderz88 · 18 Sep 2011 at 11:55

I play online using a wireless adapter and it works fine without too many problems. I use the BT HomeHub from BT Infinity and a TP-Link WN822N USB adapter. Sometimes my signal drops down to 4 bars but the performance online is still very good.

BathmanNick · 18 Sep 2011 at 12:26

i got a belkin router for 6.99 n i played games on it all the time with a ping of about 50ms, pinging the router was about 1ms, any wireless router should be fine these days

luckyguy20 · 18 Sep 2011 at 13:56

belkin n routers are quite good. i can still use our home internet even if im a few blocks away.