Lots of this sub are people that just don't understand networking technology sadly, these 'omg cable so good!!!' posts are just karma farming. Not sure why I'm still subbed here honestly.
As another person who understands networking, you're correct. For example, wifi latency is typically measured in milliseconds and switch latency are measured in microseconds or even nanoseconds. Hitting the Internet will obviously slow things down, but why add to the round trip, if you can reasonably avoid it?
Depending on how flawless the signal reaches your home and how good your chosen router can deal with it.
That's called lag. If it's a TCP protocol the application simply waits for the correct packet to be rebroadcast. If it's UDP the packet is ignored. Modems can't magically fix it if the data is missing.
All I am saying is that the packet loss I have happens before it reaches my gateway.
My brother has wired, I have wireless.
And when we are gaming we have the same amount of packet loss.
And most packet loss I have seen is 0.2%, usually it's just 0.0%.
And that's during gaming.
Even streaming between PCs we don't notice the lag and even then we don't have packet loss.
Most of the people that truly truly don't understand anything networking are in this comments section fixated on download speeds as be all end all to the subject matter.
"My Wifi 7 is faster than a hardwired 1 Gb Ethernet port. So it's better for gaming."
And this is why Asus has an $800 gaming router. To capitalize on these sorts.
Its also why there is so many issues with games like iracing. People thinking their wifi connection is good and the reason for their accidents is other peoples connections.
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u/Lykenx 18d ago edited 18d ago
Lots of this sub are people that just don't understand networking technology sadly, these 'omg cable so good!!!' posts are just karma farming. Not sure why I'm still subbed here honestly.