Quest 2, Which WiFi6 Router?

melmac · 4 Nov 2020 at 18:59

lagerfiend said:
now does anybody want to give me 90 quid for a very long cable?

Sure, we shall have an OCUK forum whip around and see can we get you that money. No problem at all!!

Buddy · 4 Nov 2020 at 23:01

lagerfiend said:
Received my honor 3 today, set it up next to my PC in bridge mode, isolated the 5G wifi, connected the quest2 only - Flawless Wireless Alyx yay!
would like to thank all those who contributed to this thread, it was a great help.
now does anybody want to give me 90 quid for a very long cable?

Is compression on Alyx noticeable? Also what's the quest called vis wifi - couldnt find it when I was trying to isolate the 5ghz.

melmac · 5 Nov 2020 at 17:39

Buddy said:
Is compression on Alyx noticeable? Also what's the quest called vis wifi - couldnt find it when I was trying to isolate the 5ghz.

What do you mean what is the Quest called? And it's easy to isolate the 5Ghz, boot everything off the 5ghz network, change the password and reconnect the quest to the 5Ghz SSID with the new password.

Another way to do it is to turn on MAC filtering in your router for the 5Ghz network and put the MAC address of the Quest 2 into the allowed list. You can find the MAC address for the Quest 2 in the Oculus APP on the PC.

Buddy · 5 Nov 2020 at 17:42

melmac said:
What do you mean what is the Quest called? And it's easy to isolate the 5Ghz, boot everything off the 5ghz network, change the password and reconnect the quest to the 5Ghz SSID with the new password.

Another way to do it is to turn on MAC filtering in your router for the 5Ghz network and put the MAC address of the Quest 2 into the allowed list. You can find the MAC address for the Quest 2 in the Oculus APP on the PC.

Mac address is useful thanks. Router lets me click and allocate type of ghz to individual devices

mark43 · 7 Nov 2020 at 13:42

Hi All
Hope this isn't a stupid question but I'm not great with networking.
Looking to buy a Quest 2, I was going to just get a cable but have been looking through this thread so see if I could go down the virtual desktop route.

I currently connect my PC to my router with powerline adapters, if I was to run the cable that normally runs from the powerline adapter to my PC into an Honor 3, and then a cable from the Honor 3 into my PC would that work okay, or is adding a powerline adapter into the mix an issue?

I initially figured I'd be happy with a cabled connection, but for the price of the Honor 3 it seems worth going down the virtual desktop route if it will work.

chroniclard · 7 Nov 2020 at 13:43

mark43 said:
Hi All
Hope this isn't a stupid question but I'm not great with networking.
Looking to buy a Quest 2, I was going to just get a cable but have been looking through this thread so see if I could go down the virtual desktop route.

I currently connect my PC to my router with powerline adapters, if I was to run the cable that normally runs from the powerline adapter to my PC into an Honor 3, and then a cable from the Honor 3 into my PC would that work okay, or is adding a powerline adapter into the mix an issue?

I initially figured I'd be happy with a cabled connection, but for the price of the Honor 3 it seems worth going down the virtual desktop route if it will work.

So long as you get a decent speed over the powerline then it should work.

mark43 · 7 Nov 2020 at 14:13

chroniclard said:
So long as you get a decent speed over the powerline then it should work.

Thanks, yeah happy with the performance over the powerline.

melmac · 7 Nov 2020 at 14:18

mark43 said:
Hi All
Hope this isn't a stupid question but I'm not great with networking.
Looking to buy a Quest 2, I was going to just get a cable but have been looking through this thread so see if I could go down the virtual desktop route.

I currently connect my PC to my router with powerline adapters, if I was to run the cable that normally runs from the powerline adapter to my PC into an Honor 3, and then a cable from the Honor 3 into my PC would that work okay, or is adding a powerline adapter into the mix an issue?

I initially figured I'd be happy with a cabled connection, but for the price of the Honor 3 it seems worth going down the virtual desktop route if it will work.

Yeah, that will work fine. Virtual desktop doesn't need fast internet speed.

maka12 · 7 Nov 2020 at 15:36

hi can someone give me some advice please.
i am trying to get virtual desktop running decent, i have a gtx 2080ti and using quest 2 with a wifi6 asus RT-AX82U router.
i have a eehomehub with a ethernet cat8 cable going to the wan on the router, my pc is connected to port1 on the asus router with cat8 ethernet cable, i can get games to run but my latency fluctuates up and down in population one and other games
it will start at 27 then shoot up to 40 then down to mid 30s then back down to27, does anyone know how to fixs this so its stable, is there a settings guide for router setup?
i have router set to ap on 5ghz, when i click on virtual desktop it say 1200mbps but when i click on windows it says 450mbps is that correct?
also i notice a tplink is connecting to my router, must be a neighbours as i dont own one , how do i disable it?
any help or advice thanks

mark43 · 8 Nov 2020 at 18:46

Just a quick question hopefully, is there an overlay or anything I can use to see the latency while playing a game? I realise I can see it in virtual desktop streamer but can't see that while playing.

lagerfiend · 18 Nov 2020 at 18:46

melmac said:
Sure, we shall have an OCUK forum whip around and see can we get you that money. No problem at all!!

ha ha thanks - i actually returned it to Amazon and got 87 quid so cant complain really!

lagerfiend · 18 Nov 2020 at 18:50

sorry for late reply - no noticeable compression on ALYX at all, and what he said

i set the honor up, seperated the 2.4 and 5 freqs, renamed the 2.4 the same as my current wifi router - now acts as an access point to all the devices this side of the house - and then only allowed the quest to connect to the 5 on the honor.

lagerfiend · 18 Nov 2020 at 18:53

and sorry again this was a reply to these:

lagerfiend said:
sorry for late reply - no noticeable compression on ALYX at all, and what he said i set the honor up, seperated the 2.4 and 5 freqs, renamed the 2.4 the same as my current wifi router - now acts as an access point to all the devices this side of the house - and then only allowed the quest to connect to the 5 on the honor.

Buddy said:
Is compression on Alyx noticeable? Also what's the quest called vis wifi - couldnt find it when I was trying to isolate the 5ghz.

melmac said:
What do you mean what is the Quest called? And it's easy to isolate the 5Ghz, boot everything off the 5ghz network, change the password and reconnect the quest to the 5Ghz SSID with the new password.

Another way to do it is to turn on MAC filtering in your router for the 5Ghz network and put the MAC address of the Quest 2 into the allowed list. You can find the MAC address for the Quest 2 in the Oculus APP on the PC.

Buddy · 18 Nov 2020 at 19:51

iBSOD · 18 Nov 2020 at 23:45

my motherboard only has a 1gbps ethernet port. will this be enough? plan on getting the honor 3 router

andybird123 · 19 Nov 2020 at 17:50

iBSOD said:
my motherboard only has a 1gbps ethernet port. will this be enough? plan on getting the honor 3 router

Yes

NF7-S · 25 Nov 2020 at 18:00

ssmacc said:
Just to back you up, I bought a Honor 3 in preparation for the Quest 2, as I didn't think the supplied Sky router would be up to the job. However, having tried both I can't tell any real world difference between them.

Cheers,

Hi, which sky router is that and how do you connect though it/how did you set it up? Thinking of trying this before splashing out on a dedicated router...

ssmacc · 25 Nov 2020 at 19:51

NF7-S said:
Hi, which sky router is that and how do you connect though it/how did you set it up? Thinking of trying this before splashing out on a dedicated router...

Latest Sky router, I didn't do anything special to set it up, just separated the 2G and 5G, only log the Quest 2 onto the 5G and it works!

NF7-S · 26 Nov 2020 at 11:39

ssmacc said:
Latest Sky router, I didn't do anything special to set it up, just separated the 2G and 5G, only log the Quest 2 onto the 5G and it works!

Erm, ok - not great at understanding this sort of stuff...the new router only has 1 ethernet which I put into a splitter with loads of items connected and the PC connects directly to that. I'm just a bit confused how the PC is connected to the Sky router and that knows how to send a signal to the Quest 2?

Is there a dummies guide?!

ssmacc · 26 Nov 2020 at 12:39

NF7-S said:
Erm, ok - not great at understanding this sort of stuff...the new router only has 1 ethernet which I put into a splitter with loads of items connected and the PC connects directly to that. I'm just a bit confused how the PC is connected to the Sky router and that knows how to send a signal to the Quest 2?

Is there a dummies guide?!

Hi, in my experience it just connects. Have you installed Virtual Desktop and the update from side quest? If you haven't, start with that (on my phone, but easy to find using Google).