How much ping difference between wired and wireless?

Oat23

If any, how much of drop in ping would you get with a wired connection compared to wireless?

I get alot of lag when playing my ps3 online, if i was able to hook it up wired would i get much of a difference in ping times to say, NY?

Fuzzy Clam

Should be almost no noticeable difference. i.e less than 1ms. It makes no difference whether its NY or London anyway. Why don't you try wired for yourself and see if there's any improvement?

Tar.Aldarion

Wireless can cause lag, jutt try and see, get a cat5 cable or w/e you need.

godskitchen

I say this as much as I can to as many people as I can......

If you can wire, do.

You only have to look at 802.11 the wrong way and it will throw a hissy fit. So much can slow it down.

Stick with Cat5 if you can, it will treat you well.

Some_Person

There shouldn't be much difference once you have a good signal and don't have too many obstacles between, I get 1ms pinging my own router, same as wired.Doing a full speed file transfer over Wi-Fi (G) and the latency only rises to 2ms or 3ms. As for gaming on a server based in New York, that will be a bit laggy anyway(about 90ms) because of the distance.Best to use the nearest servers.

maninaskirt

Hi, I had similar issues when when wireless with the PS3, lag, trouble finding games, updates taking ages, getting signed out, etc. I then wired it as my xbox's are wired.....WOW couldn't believe the improvement on the PS3....if you google PS3 wireless issues you will see it seems to be best to wire it, especially for gaming. If you can't run wires you could buy homeplugs like these http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/0622440/Trail/searchtext%3EBELKIN.htm. I hope that helps.

watty

Or not buy Homeplugs as they mess up everyones radio reception.

Especially not buy Belkin.

Tar.Aldarion

In my experience, never buybelkin anything

Jonathan

See for yourself.

SSH into your router and ping two devices. One wired and one wireless.