Internet Wireless vs Wired

What do you use? If you have used both, what differences have you noticed between them?

I used to play wireless. Then switched to wired.

Noticed zero difference.

Opposite of Billie, wired to wireless. Zero difference.

I've played extensively using both since I play on a laptop and move areas often (I've done a bit of traveling the past few months)

Wireless lag has been noticeable to me in some cases, sometimes everything in-game will stop moving for a second or two.

I've also played tethering my phone for LTE, in some ways it was far more reliable than some wireless I've played on (and I'm not talking public wifi hotspots)

It all really boils down to how good the router is & how good the internet is really.

I have played on wireless, and I notice that when wireless I will get random lag spikes that are not present with a wired connection. Have used a couple different brands and still get the same problem. Might be the router idk. I just feel that wired connections are a little bit more stable.

ethernet wired all the way.

Wireless is a little broad...

Don't play through walls (especially those with embedded metal or wires) and don't play around bends (signals don't bend and may not reflect well). As long as your system is in a direct straight line to your router while still being in range, it should be good.

And check your area for interference as your neighbors' connections can affect yours, especially if they turn up the power on their antennae.

No differences here. Getting errors 90000 recently.

I used to play wireless and would get random DCing and lag during certain instances (especially EX primals). I recently got a new router and it was messing up my connection to the point where I would DC for 20-30 seconds at a time and basically could not play. I decided to go wired and hooked my PS3 up with an ethernet cable....BIG difference!
I no longer lag nor DC like I did before (which makes doing Titan EX a breeze)! I highly recommend a wired connection if you're having any kind of connections issues (and on a PS3).

My game plays much better wired than wireless on PS3

Wireless = lots of possibilities of interruption / spikes / lag etc. depending on positioning, signal strength, interference from other devices etc.

Wired = the only possibility is your wire's physically broken/damaged.. either your net is broken or its stable.. no weird lag spikes out of nowhere

Wired for me. It's more stable and I rarely have lag. My roommate plays wireless and has occasional lag and d/c errors.

Wireless on PS, Wired on PC. No differences.

Pretty sure it depends heavily on your wireless setup. What router do you use, what provider, how many walls does it have to go through etc. My Playstation is sitting right next to my high speed router, so the connection is pretty damn good for wireless. If it were in a different room, it might sing a different tune.

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Originally Posted by TheTen

Wireless on PS, Wired on PC. No differences.

Pretty sure it depends heavily on your wireless setup. What router do you use, what provider, how many walls does it have to go through etc. My Playstation is sitting right next to my high speed router, so the connection is pretty damn good for wireless. If it were in a different room, it might sing a different tune.

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That's what she said. . .



And she was right!

Cheap routers and wireless network boards for your PC have a lot of issues, package loss and disconnects. Walls between the WAP and your device also lower a lot the signal, increasing the chances for this to happen.

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Originally Posted by Wobble

What do you use? If you have used both, what differences have you noticed between them?

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It depends on the EMI from your wifi card to the router. Wifi is more susceptible to drop out/spikes than wired. Remember that wifi is still more or less LoS (line of sight). The more barriers you have in the way, the more degraded the signal becomes. I'm on wifi about 95% of the time. When I parse my latency and jitter values if I'm in, let's say, my bedroom, I will get spikes every now and then (I have a bathroom between my router and my bedroom. Copper, piping, drywall are all excellent at absorbing frequencies) but when I have my laptop 12 feet from my router with direct LoS, nary a spike. If other devices on the network are using wifi as well, it can bring down the entire spectrum (802.11n is backward compatible with g, but g isn't compatible with n. If a g device is on the network, the network drops to g for everyone lowering transmit speeds, but stabilizing connections).

Mileage varies. The goal would be to overlap your transmission radius of your wifi card and router. You could try a higher gain antenna (that let's you modify squelch and DBuV. For good signal you want your DBuV send and receive values to be 90-110. Any lower or higher and you will run into problems) to increase wifi performance or play with your wifi settings on the router (QoS, Prioritization, 802.11n only, DHCP Reservation, Static IP) and on your computer itself (Control Panel > Network and Sharing Center > Change Adapter Settings > Right click WLAN > Properties > Configure > Advanced/Power Management. Careful with the advanced settings. When in doubt, Google it first as some of the stuff is confusing. IBSS for example deals only with ad hoc networks and doesn't apply to like 99.999998% of networks).

Wired gives me a stable connection pretty much all the time, but I like having the ability to be portable and not tied down to one room all the time. If I had to choose, I prefer the wifi route. I'll take slight performance issues every now and again over being tied to a desk 100% of the time.

I'm really banking on quantum routing becoming a standard. It's sad that we are still using wireless technology that was developed in 1893 and with so much garbage OTA, we need something new (spectrum is finite).

I bought a gaming router years ago, never had a problem with wireless until just recently. I noticed more of my neighbors getting wifi and the fact that my router is becoming outdated (signal interference and degradation), I decided to switch to wired however I didn't want to move my PC since I have it set up nicely in a room on the opposite side of my house. So I caved in an bought a powerline adapter kit, and I couldn't be happier. Now I run my router to one adapter through an outlet, and my computer/game consoles to a switch which is connected to the other adapter through an outlet in my gaming room.

In short, wireless is good if your signal is good and nothing interferes with it. Otherwise wired is best.

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Originally Posted by Berit

I bought a gaming router years ago, never had a problem with wireless until just recently. I noticed more of my neighbors getting wifi and the fact that my router is becoming outdated (signal interference and degradation), I decided to switch to wired however I didn't want to move my PC since I have it set up nicely in a room on the opposite side of my house. So I caved in an bought a powerline adapter kit, and I couldn't be happier. Now I run my router to one adapter through an outlet, and my computer/game consoles to a switch which is connected to the other adapter through an outlet in my gaming room.

In short, wireless is good if your signal is good and nothing interferes with it. Otherwise wired is best.

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PLC Bridges are the bane of my existence. I've never had good luck with any of them (Noisy busbar at my main distribution panel and I'm way too lazy to wrap ferrite). PLC is dependent on the electrical load of the home, so it's kind of a trade off. Power lines give off EMI and since those bridges are Point A to B access points, if you have a noisy circuit/power strip/surge protector/motor capacitor/reactive capacitor/compressor it can degrade the PLC signal causing drop outs. I believe that the IEEE has the 80Hz narrowband set aside for PoE (powerline over ethernet) devices.

I'm actually jealous that you got PLC bridges to work haha.

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Originally Posted by Wobble

What do you use? If you have used both, what differences have you noticed between them?

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Wireless with older PC and older hardware - Had some issues dodging.
Wired and wireless on newer PC with newer network card - Issues went away until recent routing problems that affects AT&T.

It really depends. Where I am, the best connection I can get is 5Mbps which is a sad sight from the ~50Mbps that my wireless router supports. Even accounting for latency, walls, packet overhead (you'll never even get 45 on G wireless) that means my bottleneck is going to be my service provider by an order of magnitude.

And this is the case for a lot of people. Unless you're pushing up to 30-40Mbps connection then you're not going to get much difference from either. If you are lucky enough to have the really fast connections though you'll want to use a wired connection (or Wireless N if you have it).

Swapped to wired and noticed a significant decrease in lag spikes.

PS3 and playing wireless and can play just fine

Wired only. We have a few people in our FC that play on wireless only, it can be rough. People have missed Coil because of it. Mind you one of those people was stealing his neighbors net and the other guy plays from his hotel room, but still wired is better :)

I'm from England. My lag and connection improved considerably once I wired up and I now experience practically no lag.

It will vary though from person to person - there are many factors involved.

I play on a laptop and will go wireless for farming and lower tier dungeons, but will have lag spikes and get hit with the occasional boss AoE because of the lag. I was getting extremely frustrated with Titan HM when it came out because I would clearly be out of the AoE area before the casting bar expired, but would still get hit every time. Switched to hard wiring into the router and it was much easier. Since then I never do higher end content unless I am wired in.

Internet Wireless Master Race!

I play both wired and wireless, since when I go to my parents house I have to go wireless. I get pretty awful connection, so a lot of noticeable lag. Wired, absolutely zero problems.

For my situation, I've been on wireless since moving in close to 5 years ago. For the most part, wireless on normal internet I had no problems. Had occasional lag spikes while gaming, and streaming video would hang or stutter regularly. The connection would frequently drop to 1mbps and could occasionally jump up to 100 mbps for short periods. With three other heavy internet users on the network, being 30 feet from the router going through two walls, another computer on wireless plus a TV in the way, it took a lot of tweaking and trial-and-error just to get it to a mostly-stable state.

However, I've since switched to the 5ghz wireless band (my router and network card are both dual-band), which gives me slightly less overall connection speed due to the distance, but the connection is FAR more reliable. It occasionally only gets up to 54mbps, but it never goes below 10mbps. I don't get lag spikes anymore, my streaming video has cleared up, and best of all I no longer get microwave lag!

I look forward to getting an AC router the next time I upgrade, but for now what I've got is finally good enough.

I use wireless, but I don't use a cheapo walmart PoS box.

http://www.amazon.com/RT-AC68-Wirele.../dp/B00FB45SI4

If you plan to do gaming on a wireless network dual-band N/AC is a requirement. Single band 2.4GHz is just too damn congested.