Wireless Gaming? Possible?

[HerrBobo]

Hi All,

In a new house and my pc is not online yet. I am an online gamer, but at least half on my gaming is single player. I have always used an ethernet hard line, but it will not work in my new house cause:

A) It will have to run behind my gas oven, and there is no room for it, like half an inch or less.
B) My house mate has been living there for years and is a total dick! He said he does not want a cable running through the house as it would be an "eyesore".

I would just get a PCI-E card, but my connection is only 5megs, so I asking would it be worth while getting it, or would a 300MBPS USB adaptor be OK?

I don't want tp spend the extra cash if it will be bottle necked by the connection.

Thanks guys!

 

[Rack]

It's fine, the Internet connection is always going to be the bottleneck, I doubt you'll ever notice the difference not using a hard line.

 

[gorfias]

My family room PC is on a USB wireless. Works fine and with a USB extension cord you can be more flexible in placing it where it may get a better signal.

 

[skywolfblue]

Hi All,

In a new house and my pc is not online yet. I am an online gamer, but at least half on my gaming is single player. I have always used an ethernet hard line, but it will not work in my new house cause:

A) It will have to run behind my gas oven, and there is no room for it, like half an inch or less.
B) My house mate has been living there for years and is a total dick! He said he does not want a cable running through the house as it would be an "eyesore".

I would just get a PCI-E card, but my connection is only 5megs, so I asking would it be worth while getting it, or would a 300MBPS USB adaptor be OK?

I don't want tp spend the extra cash if it will be bottle necked by the connection.

Thanks guys!

USB adapters are more then enough. Your Internet connection is always going to be the slowest factor, (unless for some bizarre inexplicable reason you have a fiber connection running straight to your door).

Gosh, it's been a long time since I've used a Ethernet cable* at home. Since 2002 or so? Viva la wireless!

*Well, technically there is still a cable running from the modem to the wireless router, but that's missing the point.

 

[SoreWristed]

I've been using the smallest and cheapest usb antenna there is, and i've never seen any problems with it. Download speed just clocked off at 9.1 MB/s, but it does the trick for online gaming at least. Downloading my monthly 150 gigs of porn is a bit of a drag but it gets there...

 

[Smooth Operator]

I would try and borrow someones laptop to see if the wireless coverage is good where you need it, some houses can be built rather oddly and leave huge blind spots.

Other then that it shouldn't be much difference to the ethernet cable, if you really want to crank latency and speeds then it matters, but at your setup it probably won't.

 

[Morgoth780]

Your ping will be worse with wireless. If you don't play much multiplayer that might not be a problem though

 

[Lilikins]

Chiming in and saying you'll have to test how the wireless signal itself is, but for me atleast...
Ive always been playing on wireless, I have it in my current apartment aswell just because I dont want a cable running through the house and the connection area is very unfitting for a pc to be by it.
I play online games all the while and have never really had a problem with lag or ping. Ive also not got some mega hookup either for the PC, wireless card and wireless usb device, done. But at the moment...'guessing' the WLAN-Router is about ehh...10-12m away, whilst downloading a game on steam Im playing borderlands with a friend...no problemo whatsoever with lag.

 

[farscythe]

[http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4049849089]
eh.. wifi works fine for me .. had to go wireless coz my cats love eating wires.....

on a side note.. could anyone point me to a good wireless gaming mouse? (i have a vanilla no brand mouse atmo and it does not cut it)

 

[Hairless Mammoth]

Get a WiFi card (USB 2.0 (USB 3.0 apparently has noise issues with 2.4 Ghz WiFi), or PCIe), but be sure to have a remote antennae option, in case you have to rearrange it for better signal. And keep a spare ethernet cable in case the Wifi acts up (and if WiFi really does affect your ping in games). You probably could even use the cable while your house mate is away.

Still, I hate Wifi and ran Cat6 cables throughout my basement and walls and keep adding new ports as needed. It didn't even cost $100 for 1000ft, punchdown tools, and keystone insert wall plates/wall mount ports, and I get gigabit speeds everywhere. But, I guess OP rents, so the only way to that is to run the cable through existing holes in the floor and walls (and too be lucky they are even there.)

I have to find a better AP, anyways. Because it won't work well with several things it once connected flawlessly with, even after changing settings on, switching channels on, and resetting every WiFi enabled machine (and the router). (It randomly works great with Nintendo products, then decides to never connect. Playstation stuff never gives me issues. My mother's Kindle Fire once worked great, when the AP was new, now can't connect half the time. Did I mentioned I hate Wifi?)

on a side note.. could anyone point me to a good wireless gaming mouse? (i have a vanilla no brand mouse atmo and it does not cut it)

I got a Logitech G700s. As is standard with gaming mice, the battery life is maybe 8 hours, but it runs the data through the USB cable when plugged it. (I always keep it plugged in and keep the wireless receiver in the slot next to the battery.) I really just bought it for the comfort, fast DPI switching and a few extra buttons.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

A) It will have to run behind my gas oven, and there is no room for it, like half an inch or less.

How thick do you think CAT 6 cable is?

B) My house mate has been living there for years and is a total dick! He said he does not want a cable running through the house as it would be an "eyesore".

What the fuck does he have against Winnie the Pooh characters?

I would just get a PCI-E card, but my connection is only 5megs, so I asking would it be worth while getting it, or would a 300MBPS USB adaptor be OK?

Meh.. seriously, you could get by with a USB dongle...

Oh yeah, is the connect Megabits(Mb) or Megabytes(MB)... yes, the difference is important...

Also... who set the connection? Don't let your housemate screw you out of your bandwidth share. Make sure you're getting the amount you're chipping in for. If you're paying for half the connection of, say, a 30Mbps connect don't settle for less half the throughput. (so if the actual throughput is 24Mbps, make sure your connection runs at 12Mbps. Yes, there are programs that let you shape access bandwidth).

 

[bluemistake2]

[http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4049849089]
eh.. wifi works fine for me .. had to go wireless coz my cats love eating wires.....

on a side note.. could anyone point me to a good wireless gaming mouse? (i have a vanilla no brand mouse atmo and it does not cut it)

Can honestly recommend Logitech mice, the wireless ones anyway, currently have a logitec M950t and it works gorgeously, battery runs flat quite easily but it's quite comfortable, no programmable buttons though besides the page forward and back ones.