Wireless Gaming is fine for most games. It's ones like Call of Duty and FIFA where cable is better.kraken2109
COD is p2p anyway so ping tends to be high. WiFi ping is just too high for competitive games.If you actually do a ping test to compare wifi speeds to wired speeds, the difference is typically under 2ms difference. I'm in a hotel in Redmond, WA right now (so probably not the best wifi). Here are my results:
Wired:
Pinging 12.10.73.130 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 12.10.73.130: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 12.10.73.130: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 12.10.73.130: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 12.10.73.130: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 12.10.73.130: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Ping statistics for 12.10.73.130:
Packets: Sent = 5, Received = 5, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms
Wifi:
Pinging 12.10.73.130 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 12.10.73.130: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
Reply from 12.10.73.130: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
Reply from 12.10.73.130: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
Reply from 12.10.73.130: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
Reply from 12.10.73.130: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
Reply from 12.10.73.130: bytes=32 time=2ms TTL=64
Reply from 12.10.73.130: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
Reply from 12.10.73.130: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
Reply from 12.10.73.130: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
Reply from 12.10.73.130: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
Reply from 12.10.73.130: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
Reply from 12.10.73.130: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
Ping statistics for 12.10.73.130:
Packets: Sent = 12, Received = 12, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 1ms, Maximum = 2ms, Average = 1ms
That's not enough to make any appreciable difference in an online game. Also, in terms of bandwidth, and G or better network carries enough data to handle the traffic typically (bear in mind that G is 54mbit which is way better than the average internet connection).
The problem isn't that wireless is inherently too slow, it's that it's range and reliability are less than wired. IF you have a strong signal then wireless is fine, even for FPS. The problem is that -if-. You need good saturation in all the areas where you'll be using wifi, and in a house this might take 2 or more routers. Just because your wifi signal strength is suffcient for web browsing (which is inherently stateless), or Pandora streaming (low bandwidth) or Netflix streaming (variable bandwidth), that doesn't mean it's suitable for gaming.
Wired goes farther and is much less suspetible for interference, but if you set it up right then wireless is fine.
-Byshop
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