Well I will be moving soon (end of the year) but my modem will be separated from my computer :O. My question is whether or not it is practical to get a very long ethernet cable or just to connect wirelessly to my modem. I am a gamer and am all about speed. How will my connection be affected if I have a 15 meter ethernet cable? Should it be fine or should i move my pc out the room to be close to the modem?
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Long ethernet cable (UTP)
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dj_jyno
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I have a 30m stretch of cable connecting my PC to the router and have no issues. You'll be fine. All pings from my computer to my modem and other PCs on the network are 1ms or less. Wireless will have a speed penalty, never mind what the wireless equipment manufacturers say.
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Pada
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I've had a like 60m UTP cable running from one of my friends house to his neighbours and that worked fine. Even if you are a hardcore gamer, playing over Wireless LAN you won't notice a difference in your online ping.
Thestealth
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Use the cable
gregmcc
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I'd go for the cable. Cat3(10) and Cat5(100) have a max distance of 100m - so your more than safe.
Yep, and that's the claimed maximum - I've managed more than 100m (about 150m) using standard switch-switch (WRT54G) / no booster etc., and it runs like a charm
I use my PC all the time for gaming and have a 50m ethernet cable from my router into a switch and then another 10m to my pc. The difference in latency on BF2 is 14 directly connected to the router and 16 at my PC.
That's not due to the cable though. Thats due to routing via a extra hop.
A 100m cable will not make a difference to your latency in this scenario.
Essentially every time a packet has to go through a router it will add a small delay unless the router switches at wire speed (which I doubt). If you have a 1000m circuit and a router every 100m in the circuit things will be slower than just with a router at each end of the circuit.
Try this for an experiment. Put your router into bridged mode and setup a PPPoE dialer on your computer. This should make things slightly faster. I recall gamers doing this but I never tried it to verify for myself though.
savage
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Once you start putting it into managed switches so that you can see what is happening at the switch.... Ethernet starts running Colisions and CRC errors from about 80m onwards when there is high traffic on the line.
Max error free I've managed was arround 80m on a CAT6 cable @ 100mbit/s fdx link...
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