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A wireless router so that I may game, not a branded Gaming Wireless Router
Lady Eri
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I am getting a wireless router for a roommate's needs, and I need one that won't make a fuss for any online gaming I would like to do. I would like to run my ethernet cable to the router direct. Does anyone have any suggestions for me? One that is easy to manipulate ports should that be an issue, or better yet, just comes default with everything open?
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I never asked for this!
'Gaming router'? That's a joke
Actually unless you're sitting inside an EMR-sealed room, a wired connection is superior because of interference on the spectrum wifi uses. No wireless connection can ever have a perfect 100% accuracy like a correctly shielded and twisted cable will.
Every time a wireless packet is received incorrectly, it has to use more bandwidth resending it, which takes more time to successfully send the same data than wired connection would.
I said no noticeable difference.
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It's not guaranteed that wireless is always going to be as good as wired for gaming, especially if there's a few walls between the router's location and the computer.
Wired is guaranteed to create no additional problems, wireless always has the chance of something changing, like someone turning on a borked microwave.
PSN: super_emu
Xbox360 Gamertag: Emuchop
I don't see a good reason why the person shouldn't try wireless.. wireless routers ARE wired routers also.
PSN: super_emu
Xbox360 Gamertag: Emuchop
There are also security issues (as even using common wireless encryption protocols do not guarantee security), but the average household really doesn't need to worry about that.
I don't have a wireless card and/or I am too stupid to figure out how to find my wireless connection with my new Vista computer.
specifically I have WRT350N with dd on it.
keep in mind that as long as you're playing online your router's wireless transmission speed is generally going to be about 5 times the speed of your internet connection, so as long as it drops less than 5 packets for every 1 packet sent you won't really see slowdown. . . If you're talking about LAN play though wireless is balls slow compared to the pretty much now-standard gigabit per second and it's really annoying if you have to transfer files or whatever. . .
I have had so many issues with mine, I second the get it working part.
press the start button, in the search bar: type "network"
should automatically populate with search results.
click on "network and sharing center"
on the left hand side of the new window, click on "manage network connections."
this new window will list all your available network options.
it's represented by neat little graphics so you shouldn't have any problem telling what you have available.
fyi, "X" mark means you're not connected. it does not mean you don't have that option on your computer.
PSN: super_emu
Xbox360 Gamertag: Emuchop
I second this notion. I have a WRT54G or some variation thereof running DD-WRT. Although, I freely admit that I don't really take advantage of that custom firmware because I'm not tech savvy enough to really customize it. So the base Linksys firmware may be enough to do what you want (and what I want). I really don't know though because I installed DD-WRT from the get go.