Mesh WiFi a good solution for online gaming?

[mrochester]

Hello


I’m partial to a bit of league of legends, which I play on my laptop via WiFi. I’ve got a TPLink Archer VR900 router.

If my other half is browsing the net or playing videos at the same time, I can find my ping goes up and down like a yo-yo for a while.

Would a mesh WiFi network solve this issue?

Many thanks.

M.

 

[mrochester]

It wouldn't make any difference.

Lovely thanks.

 

[mrochester]

Sounds more likely a bandwidth issue. What’s your connection ?

76mb Sky fibre.

 

[mrochester]

That’s weird should be plenty of bandwidth.

Are you on the latest firmware?

AFAIK but I’d need to double check.

 

[mrochester]

Does your ping actually matter in a game like that?

Yeah, you'd be dead before you know it otherwise.

 

[mrochester]

Browsing the net and watching video’s shouldn’t impact one another on a 76mbit connection significantly (unless your significant other is attempting to direct stream a 4K remux), a video will eat a few mbit a seccond, a brief spike where it starts to buffer, but nothing that should be noticeable.

Repeat the test with you wired (you say you use a laptop so it can’t be that hard to test with a cable), that will identify if it’s a Wi-fi related issue or connection related.

Testing with a cable will be tricky because the router is in the hall and the laptop has no Ethernet port!

 

[mrochester]

That's a reasonable shout. Especially if it happens everytime your partner switches her PC on.

the other device is normally a phone or tablet rather than a PC. I wonder if it’s linked to the MacOS lol client being perpetually in beta?