Wireless & Gaming

New here. Probably been asked before but like to know if anyone here is
wireless and gaming on the net ? Moving to a two story house soon and will
have 4 comps hooked up. Right now with router and LAN lines. Hate to string
up a bunch of cat 5 cable in the next home.

If it's doable what's the recommendations here on a successful setup ? Any
links to sites out there ?

Thanks.

Mark wrote:
> New here. Probably been asked before but like to know if anyone here is
> wireless and gaming on the net ? Moving to a two story house soon and will
> have 4 comps hooked up. Right now with router and LAN lines. Hate to string
> up a bunch of cat 5 cable in the next home.
>
> If it's doable what's the recommendations here on a successful setup ? Any
> links to sites out there ?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
I don't game on the net, so can't directly comment. However, the speed
of a wireless network will well exceed the speed of a normal cable or
ADSL connection.

Mark,

I have a 50% wired and 50% wireless environment in my 3 story house - and my
kids and I game all the time (Rogue Spear series, Everquest and others). I
have not had any issues that were related to wireless and gaming. The
response times seem very comparable to wired environments.

Dale


"Mark" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:Bd2dnaPCP86acAWiRVn-(E-Mail Removed)...
> New here. Probably been asked before but like to know if anyone here is
> wireless and gaming on the net ? Moving to a two story house soon and will
> have 4 comps hooked up. Right now with router and LAN lines. Hate to
string
> up a bunch of cat 5 cable in the next home.
>
> If it's doable what's the recommendations here on a successful setup ? Any
> links to sites out there ?
>
> Thanks.
>
>

Thanks for your info Dale .

Dale Van Camp <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

> have not had any issues that were related to wireless and gaming. The
> response times seem very comparable to wired environments.

Using D-Link 802.11b gear with 256-bit encryption and their 4X and
22-mbit modes enabled my typical round trip time for small packets
is between 5-6ms.

Billy Y..

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 02:12:43 -0700, Mark spoketh

> New here. Probably been asked before but like to know if anyone here is
>wireless and gaming on the net ? Moving to a two story house soon and will
>have 4 comps hooked up. Right now with router and LAN lines. Hate to string
>up a bunch of cat 5 cable in the next home.
>
>If it's doable what's the recommendations here on a successful setup ? Any
>links to sites out there ?
>
>Thanks.
>

In most instances, the bottleneck will be the internet connection (often
limited to 1.54mbps) rather than any LAN equipment. 802.11b networks at
11mbps is plenty for this purpose.

Lars M. Hansen
www.hansenonline.net