Would this add much latency during gaming?

MikeHunt79 · 22 Feb 2007 at 19:09

Right now, I have a USB wifi dongle on my gaming rig. It works OK, apart from a few drop outs.

If I was to have the USB dongle on another machine, and connect the other machine to my gaming machine 1 or 2 metres of cat5 through a non-wireless router, would this add much latency? 1ms or 2ms I could live with. 10ms or over, and I'll have to figure out another way of doing it.

I guess tracert would be a nice way of testing it when it's plugged up?

Fr0dders · 23 Feb 2007 at 08:01

so basically your asking how much latency a router adds as opposed to a direct connection to the net ?

non is the answer.

Uhtred · 23 Feb 2007 at 08:48

if anything it might be 1 or 2ms faster

ste_bla · 23 Feb 2007 at 10:54

MikeHunt79 said:
Right now, I have a USB wifi dongle on my gaming rig. It works OK, apart from a few drop outs.

If I was to have the USB dongle on another machine, and connect the other machine to my gaming machine 1 or 2 metres of cat5 through a non-wireless router, would this add much latency? 1ms or 2ms I could live with. 10ms or over, and I'll have to figure out another way of doing it. I guess tracert would be a nice way of testing it when it's plugged up?

This might be stupid but how are you currently using wifi if its a non-wireless router?

MikeHunt79 · 23 Feb 2007 at 14:34

Sounds good... I'll have to give it a go.

ste_bla said:
This might be stupid but how are you currently using wifi if its a non-wireless router?

I'll be having one of my machines with a wireless card in it, which acts as a bridge to the wired router.

tolien · 23 Feb 2007 at 14:42

Bridging through another machine might add some latency dependant on how much load the machine was under, so YMMV.

MikeHunt79 · 24 Feb 2007 at 18:25

The bridging machine is a download/upload box that gets left on 24/7, and it doesn't really get much load.

I have still yet to try it out, as I've lost my wired router!

ste_bla · 24 Feb 2007 at 23:22

MikeHunt79 said:
The bridging machine is a download/upload box that gets left on 24/7, and it doesn't really get much load. I have still yet to try it out, as I've lost my wired router!

Surely a patch cable would be simpler?

MikeHunt79 · 25 Feb 2007 at 11:11

ste_bla said:
Surely a patch cable would be simpler?

Not a bad idea - I forgot about those... A patch cable will do until I find the router. I'll have to buy one next time I'm buying computer bits.