LAN or WLAN connection?

[hausnm]

Hello,

how do you play online ? Is it better to use LAN or can wlan be enough for smooth gameplay ? Do you have wlan tips ?

thanks for your suggestions.

 

[LLv34_Flanker]

S!

 

Since I got fibre connection there was no way I would go back to wireless playing. LAN beats WLAN every single time. Less delay, better ping etc. That is my experience on it.

[hausnm]

So you have less stuttering even with a huge amount of players online ? 

[Retnek]

3 hours ago, hausnm said:

So you have less stuttering even with a huge amount of players online ? 

That should not influence your connection that much. If you do not have the chance to fly by ethernet-wire (mostly because of ladies refusing a 15 meter cable winding through the living room ...), try this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HomePlug

That's fine for me over years now, usually not more than 1 to 3 ms ping time loss and - in my environment - not influenced by hoovers, drills and hair-dryers.

If you need to go with WLAN, try to avoid "meshed"-set-ups with repeaters etc. And switch off any "automatic optimisations" like channel-movements, cross-over from 2.4 to 5 GHz and else gimmicks most of the modern WLAN-routers offer. That might be nice for standard utilisation, but you need a non-stop low-ping connection without any interrupt by WLAN-optimization. (btw: short communication breaks via WLAN during to-days endless corona-video-sessions might have a reason in those "optimizations", too)

Edited June 6, 2020 by Retnek