Will a wireless router be a good choice if I do PC gaming? I know it screws up xbox sometimes but what bout PC o.o
and some suck and overheat and stop working completely >.< . Try avoiding routers for games unless its meant for gaming
I've never had any problems with my wireless g-router for gaming on my comp and I rarely drop out of a game because my wireless internet dropped. I only wished that were true with xbox live.... lol even though for some reason I never drop out of a halo2 game, only out of the pregame lobby, but that's only because my router isn't supported my xbox live >_<
Pshh, I have a wifi router and its fine. As long you have your modem in the house then your fine. It doesnt really effect your preformance unless you have a crapy router . I had a really bad one but then i got a linksis Boost preformance which was about 75$ and i NEVER lag or anything .
I have satellite which gets a signal from a hill 1 mile away then an ethernet cord from the sattelite to the router. Then through 2 walls 100 feet away I have a wireless internet adapter to the router. I play every game with under 100 ping. On PC and PS2. Did I answer your question?
I have a wireless router, works fine. Just make sure you buy a really nice one because I've had some problems with certain routers (Linksys for example) As long as you have a good ISP with high speed access, a router should do fine.
Dont buy netgear...ill say that in advance in my opinion, wifi at its current status (802.11 a/b/g/draft-n) is not reliable enough to not drop packets. Ethernet (wired connection) is much more reliable in terms of packets getting where you want them. In addition, the signal strength of a 802.11 router WILL go low no matter where you are (eventually), and more packets will be dropped, making your ping HUGE, if it doesnt drop your session
adding a router ads about 1-3ms to your latency buit other than that ti shoudln't be an issue assuing you get decent signal strenght/quality. I noticed no perceiveable diference between using a router and using an ethernet connection when gaming, atleast if you don't count the times i would randomy smack my wireless router(I had it suspended to the ceiling for better signal strength though I kinda smacked it a bit) also to the person who says it drops packets... no duh it's to be expected, but there is a reason why the same packet gets sound out around 50 times. kink an ethernet cord, see if that gets good signal...
umm maybe 50-60 feat away through a few walls... you have to realize that a router which has a max transmiton rate of 50-100mb/s can send data faster than an internet conection which in the real world caps at at about 1/10th the bandwidth if you have a good conection and far elss if you don't also I was using an 11mb/snetgear router. I'll say this, it was sufficiently crappy but it worked OK.
Maybe this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16833162134 My dad used to want a wireless router, but I denied that cuz of xbox live. I dont use that anymore..so uhh..oh ---- that thing runs out soon, oh well. Anyhow, that seems like a good one. My current is a linksys which might be the problem that disconnects me from games
routers don't interfere with hardwaired connections in pretty much every scenario. the wireless router i have also acts as a hardwired router.
