Wireless

goldstar0011

goldstar0011

Ex. Club Member
Anyone who knows about ADSL will know it's best to plug the router to the master socket in the house, but even though I know this I haven't as I have 3 wired computers in my bedroom.

If I get wireless dongles for the PC's will I notice any lags?

Router supports wireless G.
I play online games so low ping is important.
Housemates uses wirless already (i want priority)

Also, are dongles just as good as PCI cards?
 
goldstar0011 said:
Anyone who knows about ADSL will know it's best to plug the router to the master socket in the house, but even though I know this I haven't as I have 3 wired computers in my bedroom.

If I get wireless dongles for the PC's will I notice any lags?

Router supports wireless G.
I play online games so low ping is important.
Housemates uses wirless already (i want priority)

Also, are dongles just as good as PCI cards?
Click to expand...


1 not any noticable lag.
2 you will have priority if you are wired
3 pci cards are probably better but not really noticably.
 
No, you wont notice any higher pings due to wireless, radio transmission is fast. Im unsure what is better between the 2 types. I imagine if you just got for a decent brand either way you'll be fine. You may however get better range with a PCI card with a large arieal on it.
 
If your using wireless, you wont get priority access over another person, it'l be equally split, and yes, unless you've got 100% signal quality and strength, you'l never have as good a connection as a fixed cable. If a signal misses etc, you may notice lag issues.

We've got wireless routers at work and because they go through walls, ceilings etc, they do suffer, in comparison to ethernet users who never contact me about relibility or speed issues
 
you can usually set routers to priority through cirtain ports, or mac addresses. Howevever, if you were wired and someone else was wireless, If they were leeching the b/w then you would lag. But that would happen with any wireless/wired configuration
 
Ian said:
you can usually set routers to priority through cirtain ports, or mac addresses.
Click to expand...

Which routers do that then, as its not a feature i've seen on any of the wireless setups i've installed!
 
I'm contemplating running multiple ethernet through the house still but trying to find best route and if housemate would not notice.

Am gonna do some testing soon anyway to see how things are on wireless and on master socket
 
Arnold said:
Which routers do that then, as its not a feature i've seen on any of the wireless setups i've installed!
Click to expand...

Well you couldn't have possibly seen every router out there. Mine does it. its a netgear. I could take a screenshot should you wish too see proof.
 
Ian said:
Well you couldn't have possibly seen every router out there. Mine does it. its a netgear. I could take a screenshot should you wish too see proof.
Click to expand...

Lol no its cool. I have used netgear routers, alongside US Robotics, Linksys and a few others, just not something i have come across.

Linksys was a bit of a pain but works quite well once configured, but the US robotics ones are a piece of cake from start to finish.
 
Back
Top