Faster for gaming on-line

I have a gaming lap-top that I play bf2bc with on line, I use
a wireless connection to play. Would I have a better and faster connection
if I ran a lan line right to my router and then to the lap-top?

 

properly installed wired lans will always beat wireless lans in terms of speed, throughput, latency and connection reliability.

always

 

Thx for info, I will try it tonight.....

 

You may not see significant changes depending on how much interference with your wireless signal you were seeing originally. I have pretty much no difference between wireless and wired when gaming on my setup. Sometimes the problems can actually be in the router, and it's inability to deal with various types of traffic.

 

It's also worth noting that if you're actually playing online (i.e. over the internet) as opposed to over a local LAN, it probably won't matter if you're playing wireless or wired, as either is usually faster than your actual internet connection.

 

Maybe in terms of throughput, but wireless always adds latency, even if only a couple ms.

 

I should probably preface this by saying I don't play shooters, so I'm probably a little less sensitive to such things, but in my experience, I've generally found that the hops in latency once you leave your local LAN far outweigh any latency added by wireless. My occasional WoW sessions give me a latency of 200-300 ms generally, and using a wired connection versus wireless doesn't really seem to make much of a difference at that point.

 

wired connections are more reliable tho. Wireless will occasionally drop out then reconnect and when that happens you ping out of your game. Wired connections dont just drop out.

 

If you have a good router, then it shouldn't be a problem. My wireless never drops out.

 

That's weird. 200-300ms latency is pretty horrible...

My latency can get as low as 60ms for a direct wired connection (usually under 100), and a bit higher for the wireless, although I don't remember exactly by how much.

 

i agree with that.. i play shooters with both cable and wireless and i have found little or not difference... it really depends on ur internet connection.. i have quite a crap one but latency is good so no lagg... but i really prefer wireless.. no cables lol..

 

200-300? Then you definitely wouldn't notice. My home connection runs at a ping of roughly 15ms, up to 30 ms on a bad day, so I do notice the added wireless lag.

 

The router is right next to my gaming area, so I have it plugged in for gaming. All other times I go wireless because I don't like wire sticking out of my laptop. I sometimes go on battery power when it's better not to just for this reason, lol.

 

when im at home connected to my 27" monitor adding another wire to it is no big deal. I only use wireless on the go. Wired > Wireless no matter what as far as connection quality

 

I assure you that Air is quite a reliable medium for radio waves, just as reliable as copper is for electrical signals. The "dropping" happens in the router - and it can drop signals coming over any medium. I've had plenty of dropped packets in a wired network under high load.

 

There won't be a noticeable difference between wired and wireless if the wireless is setup correctly.

I gamed solely on wireless-g for a couple of years without any problems when I only had my laptop.

 

I live in a fairly crowded neighborhood, so I occasionally have problems with too many people on the same channel causing conflict. But most of the time, I can't tell a difference even with SecondLife, which is a bandwidth hog.

 

well if u have a loose LAN cable and not much space , then wireless is much better.. anyways , haven't had lagg problems in MW2 playing on wireless as long as host is good.

 

If you are encountering issues with multiple users on the same channel, I would encourage you to download and install inSSIDer. This is a WiFi hot spot scanner which can tell you who is on what channel and the type of network and encryption they're using among other things.

Since a good portion of wireless routers automatically default to channel 6 during router setup, it would be a good idea to change your router's channel to a channel that is least used for optimum performance. Anyhow, the software is free, and setup/installation is a breeze. Check it out:

inSSIDer Wi-Fi Scanner | MetaGeek

 

Well, I'm sure part of the issue also becomes which servers you connect to and play on at that point, and that will depend heavily on the specific game and personal location. WoW specifically also isn't as highly dependent on precision movement and/or shooting as, say, CoD, so the latency issue isn't as big a deal for me usually... until latency jumps over 600 ms or so.

 

There isn't going to be much of a difference between wired and wireless connections at that distance. Best you spend your time on accuracy.