Higher transmission speeds does not mean better gameplay (less lag, lower ping), especially over wireless connections with inherent packet loss. It would behoove you to figure out a way to get a gigabit infrastructure wherever it is that you game.
Wired connection, optimally at 100Mbps, in reality more around 90Mbps or so, so even if we consider a 60% transmission efficiency for gigabit ethernet, which is harsh, it would still beat twice over the theoretical advertised max throughput of this N router (300Mbps, and this is a rough estimate given the advertising for other N-equipped routers).
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Jason @ Nov 29th 2006 4:02AM
Higher transmission speeds does not mean better gameplay (less lag, lower ping), especially over wireless connections with inherent packet loss. It would behoove you to figure out a way to get a gigabit infrastructure wherever it is that you game.
Wired connection, optimally at 100Mbps, in reality more around 90Mbps or so, so even if we consider a 60% transmission efficiency for gigabit ethernet, which is harsh, it would still beat twice over the theoretical advertised max throughput of this N router (300Mbps, and this is a rough estimate given the advertising for other N-equipped routers).
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