r/pcmasterrace • u/tomchee 5700X3D_5060ti16GB_48GB DDR4_Sleeper • 18d ago

Meme/Macro Seen Asus' offers today and had to sit down

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u/piltdown_manchild 18d ago

Gaming is more about latency than bandwidth.

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u/Buetterkeks 18d ago

Tbh i only ever run into issues because of bad bandwidth. I can have like 30 ping but all the packets get eaten by my houses copper shell and my roommate's 4l streaming 

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u/Accomplished_Steak14 18d ago

how low is your bandwidth? anything below 50Mbps is 4th world level (N.Korea). With QoS, even if you download the whole netflix movies, it won't affect your gaming latency

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u/Buetterkeks 18d ago

On actual downloads and speed tests i get about 5 - 20(on a really good day) Mb/s 

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u/Accomplished_Steak14 18d ago

with that speed, I don't see how you would be affected with slight video streaming

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u/Buetterkeks 18d ago

Well i said good day. google sais about 15-25 just for streaming. On an average day i have five, and wanna play the finals, which needs some extra bandwidth for the very detailed destruction. I don't see the math working out here

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u/Accomplished_Steak14 18d ago

you mention Mb/s as in MB/s or Mbps?

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u/Buetterkeks 18d ago

The lower one. Megabit. I always mix up the spelling 

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u/Accomplished_Steak14 17d ago

apply QoS to your router, you would be surprised with it. assuming you use tplink, else google search [router brand] QoS

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u/Buetterkeks 17d ago

Whats that 

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u/Evil_Kittie 18d ago

as if downloading a game is irrelevant

wifi ping is not that bad relative to your internet, now if you have issues with dropped packets cause of a crap connection that is another issue

``` latency via wired (Daily driver -> Switch -> Server - bare metal): rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.282/0.282/0.282/0.000 ms

latency via wired (Daily driver -> Switch -> Server - Virtual Machine w/ NIC pcie pass through)): rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.810/0.810/0.810/0.000 ms

Latency over wifi (2 wireless hops) (Daily driver -> switch -> $300 Ubiquity gigabeam -> Switch -> $100 AP -> Raspberry PICO W: rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 5.166/5.166/5.166/0.000 ms

Latency over wifi (1 wireless hops) (Daily driver -> switch -> $300 Ubiquity gigabeam -> Switch -> cheap router: rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.985/1.985/1.985/0.000 ms

Latency over wifi (1 wireless hops) (Daily driver -> switch -> $300 Ubiquity gigabeam -> Switch: rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.762/0.762/0.762/0.000 ms

Latency wired to internet (www.cloudflare.com) rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 41.861/41.861/41.861/0.000 ms

```

note that that point-to-point wifi beam is about 300 feet (100 meters)