I've noticed that my connection for online games is laggy. Me and my girlfriend were both playing a game and her ping was a consistent 33 ms while mine would spike from 33 ms to 200-300 ms sporadically. We're in the same room and connected to the same WiFi, what the fuck is this? It's not a hardware issue, my laptop has better specs than hers.
Pic sorta related I guess
>>55350011
How do you imagine wifi works? Fairy deliveries betwixt the router and your pc?
It sounds like you discovered the cause without realizing it. When you do, I suggest you remove it from layer eight.
>>55350052
isn't that how it works tho
>>55350066
I don't really understand the joke you're trying to make but if you're implying my girlfriend being on the same connection is causing the problem that's just wrong because I experience the same issue when she's not here, if anything her ping staying consistent while mine lags is further proof that there's something amiss.
stop playing csgo, their servers are shit and the game is shit
>>55350011
>me and my girlfriend
1. It's "my girlfriend and I"
2. back to facebook gf-having traitor
>>55350011
fuck off
please tell us more about video games, your girlfriend, and your problem with wifi, OP. this is the kind of on-topic discussion /g/ needs!
>>55350239
>girlfriend
Problem's not your "girlfriend", brah
>>55350276
what is it then my dude
>>55350011
Dude you're using fucking WiFi and you're whining about latency spikes? Ethernet cable for fast-reaction gaming, period. Wi-FI is literally worse than using a 10/100 network hub from the 1990s.
>>55350431
forgot pic related
oh and guess how much first-hop latency you'd get if you plugged into a normal modern gigabit switch... it's literally not even 1ms, and it's consistent.
>>55350011
>It's not a hardware issue, my laptop has better specs than hers.
Sounds like it is. You probably have some asstrash gaming laptop with a shit Realtek Wi-Fi chipset.
Ok noobs listen up.
Use a router with some QoS. Prioritize interactive traffic/gaming.
You can make a linuxrouter and use wondershaper
or you can use dd-wrt or openwrt as router firmware to achieve this
Its lagging bcs your router cant decide which is more important: the traffic from your girlfriends whatever and your obviously more important gaming experience
and why doesn't anyone on /g/ know anything about technology?
>>55350678
/v/ and reddit came here and most of the old techloli/g/y people left.
