Internet Wireless vs Wired

[Crimson-Falcon]

PS3 and playing wireless and can play just fine

[Yurikitty]

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

[Tadacho]

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.

[Jennifer_Uppercut]

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.

[Arkghyom]

Internet Wireless Master Race!

[ninthfantasy]

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.

[Grey_Cain]

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.

[Dhalmel]

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.