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What's the normal latency for a Wi-Fi connection?
New laptop with Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 3160 has inconsistent wireless connectionRouters with multiple user increasing latency by request is normal?Can you explain why I am losing internet connection?WAN Bypass - Working over short cable, not Ethernet in wallI can access websites through the web browser, but I can not ping them or interact in various other waysStabilizing Wi-Fi pingFluctuating WiFi latencyWhy is an SSH socks5 proxy performing better than a normal socks5 proxy?Can't connect to a game server from within my local network BUT others from outside the network can connectPinging local router with least latency possible
Playing an online game connected to a server with 64 players and an avg. ping of 50 I get quite a bit of lag. So while being connected to the server, I ran a "cmd.exe && /c ping 192.168.0.1 -l 65500 -t" for a minute and got a result of 43ms(avg.), 28ms(min), 89(max). Notice that "65500" is the packet size to be sent in bytes which is the maximum the Ping command can send. This behaviour is obviously reasonable, because my router sits on a table through a wall, giving an avg. of -50dB signal while being near to 10-15 other Wi-Fi's and due to that, sometimes I experience big spikes. So, does this mean that my overall avg. latency is about twice as more as my avg. latency with the game server and is completely normal considering all the inconvenience caused by the neighboring Wi-Fi's?
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Playing an online game connected to a server with 64 players and an avg. ping of 50 I get quite a bit of lag. So while being connected to the server, I ran a "cmd.exe && /c ping 192.168.0.1 -l 65500 -t" for a minute and got a result of 43ms(avg.), 28ms(min), 89(max). Notice that "65500" is the packet size to be sent in bytes which is the maximum the Ping command can send. This behaviour is obviously reasonable, because my router sits on a table through a wall, giving an avg. of -50dB signal while being near to 10-15 other Wi-Fi's and due to that, sometimes I experience big spikes. So, does this mean that my overall avg. latency is about twice as more as my avg. latency with the game server and is completely normal considering all the inconvenience caused by the neighboring Wi-Fi's?
windows wireless-networking router ping
asked Jun 1 '18 at 11:40
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Gaming while using WiFi never is a good idea.
– LPChip
Jun 1 '18 at 11:49
On a regular Ethernet network, the maximum packet size is 1500 bytes. That means your ping packet is fragmented into at least 43 packets, resulting in additional latency. This test is meaningless.
– Daniel B
Jun 1 '18 at 11:51
WiFi is subject to interference from microwave ovens, cordless phone, Bluetooth devices, "wireless" devices, sunspots and a thousand other things as well as other WiFi networks and devices. Unless you live in an anechoic chamber then you cannot be sure of a consistent latency.
– Mokubai♦
Jun 1 '18 at 11:59
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Playing an online game connected to a server with 64 players and an avg. ping of 50 I get quite a bit of lag. So while being connected to the server, I ran a "cmd.exe && /c ping 192.168.0.1 -l 65500 -t" for a minute and got a result of 43ms(avg.), 28ms(min), 89(max). Notice that "65500" is the packet size to be sent in bytes which is the maximum the Ping command can send. This behaviour is obviously reasonable, because my router sits on a table through a wall, giving an avg. of -50dB signal while being near to 10-15 other Wi-Fi's and due to that, sometimes I experience big spikes. So, does this mean that my overall avg. latency is about twice as more as my avg. latency with the game server and is completely normal considering all the inconvenience caused by the neighboring Wi-Fi's?
windows wireless-networking router ping
asked Jun 1 '18 at 11:40
computationalprincecomputationalprince
415
Playing an online game connected to a server with 64 players and an avg. ping of 50 I get quite a bit of lag. So while being connected to the server, I ran a "cmd.exe && /c ping 192.168.0.1 -l 65500 -t" for a minute and got a result of 43ms(avg.), 28ms(min), 89(max). Notice that "65500" is the packet size to be sent in bytes which is the maximum the Ping command can send. This behaviour is obviously reasonable, because my router sits on a table through a wall, giving an avg. of -50dB signal while being near to 10-15 other Wi-Fi's and due to that, sometimes I experience big spikes. So, does this mean that my overall avg. latency is about twice as more as my avg. latency with the game server and is completely normal considering all the inconvenience caused by the neighboring Wi-Fi's?
windows wireless-networking router ping
windows wireless-networking router ping
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Gaming while using WiFi never is a good idea.
– LPChip
Jun 1 '18 at 11:49
On a regular Ethernet network, the maximum packet size is 1500 bytes. That means your ping packet is fragmented into at least 43 packets, resulting in additional latency. This test is meaningless.
– Daniel B
Jun 1 '18 at 11:51
WiFi is subject to interference from microwave ovens, cordless phone, Bluetooth devices, "wireless" devices, sunspots and a thousand other things as well as other WiFi networks and devices. Unless you live in an anechoic chamber then you cannot be sure of a consistent latency.
– Mokubai♦
Jun 1 '18 at 11:59
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2
Gaming while using WiFi never is a good idea.
– LPChip
Jun 1 '18 at 11:49
On a regular Ethernet network, the maximum packet size is 1500 bytes. That means your ping packet is fragmented into at least 43 packets, resulting in additional latency. This test is meaningless.
– Daniel B
Jun 1 '18 at 11:51
WiFi is subject to interference from microwave ovens, cordless phone, Bluetooth devices, "wireless" devices, sunspots and a thousand other things as well as other WiFi networks and devices. Unless you live in an anechoic chamber then you cannot be sure of a consistent latency.
– Mokubai♦
Jun 1 '18 at 11:59
2
2
Gaming while using WiFi never is a good idea.
– LPChip
Jun 1 '18 at 11:49
Gaming while using WiFi never is a good idea.
– LPChip
Jun 1 '18 at 11:49
On a regular Ethernet network, the maximum packet size is 1500 bytes. That means your ping packet is fragmented into at least 43 packets, resulting in additional latency. This test is meaningless.
– Daniel B
Jun 1 '18 at 11:51
On a regular Ethernet network, the maximum packet size is 1500 bytes. That means your ping packet is fragmented into at least 43 packets, resulting in additional latency. This test is meaningless.
– Daniel B
Jun 1 '18 at 11:51
WiFi is subject to interference from microwave ovens, cordless phone, Bluetooth devices, "wireless" devices, sunspots and a thousand other things as well as other WiFi networks and devices. Unless you live in an anechoic chamber then you cannot be sure of a consistent latency.
– Mokubai♦
Jun 1 '18 at 11:59
WiFi is subject to interference from microwave ovens, cordless phone, Bluetooth devices, "wireless" devices, sunspots and a thousand other things as well as other WiFi networks and devices. Unless you live in an anechoic chamber then you cannot be sure of a consistent latency.
– Mokubai♦
Jun 1 '18 at 11:59
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WiFi Latency is tough to measure accurately: a lot of variables. A few nasty events are like a neighbor starts streaming a movie and hogs the channel your router is using and forces a channel swap; your DHCP lease can run out requiring the network to drop until a new lease is negotiated; the OS or Chrome or even the game can decide to check for updates while you are at 3% in a boss fight.
I use PING and the default 4 replies tells me enough that the WiFi is working as normal. You can add -n 300 to get five minutes worth.
On my old world router I see an average under 15ms... where a cable yields <1ms.
For grins just checked my notebook, and it confirms 20ms spikes. But it said 2ms min, 19ms max, 4ms average.
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Frankly speaking, the average latency of a WiFi network is far more than the wired network. Generally, wired network is less than 1 ms, while WiFi network is 1–3ms, which is 10–100 times of the former;
Why? Because the WiFi network need go through the operation of encryption and decryption which takes a lot of time. In contrast, wired network only need hardware operation and transmission so that its latency is quite small;
Last but not least, for WiFi network, the keypoint is NETWORK SIGNAL. The higher the network signal, the lower the ping is. That’s to say, the network speed is mainly depends on its signal quality.
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WiFi Latency is tough to measure accurately: a lot of variables. A few nasty events are like a neighbor starts streaming a movie and hogs the channel your router is using and forces a channel swap; your DHCP lease can run out requiring the network to drop until a new lease is negotiated; the OS or Chrome or even the game can decide to check for updates while you are at 3% in a boss fight.
I use PING and the default 4 replies tells me enough that the WiFi is working as normal. You can add -n 300 to get five minutes worth.
On my old world router I see an average under 15ms... where a cable yields <1ms.
For grins just checked my notebook, and it confirms 20ms spikes. But it said 2ms min, 19ms max, 4ms average.
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WiFi Latency is tough to measure accurately: a lot of variables. A few nasty events are like a neighbor starts streaming a movie and hogs the channel your router is using and forces a channel swap; your DHCP lease can run out requiring the network to drop until a new lease is negotiated; the OS or Chrome or even the game can decide to check for updates while you are at 3% in a boss fight.
I use PING and the default 4 replies tells me enough that the WiFi is working as normal. You can add -n 300 to get five minutes worth.
On my old world router I see an average under 15ms... where a cable yields <1ms.
For grins just checked my notebook, and it confirms 20ms spikes. But it said 2ms min, 19ms max, 4ms average.
answered Jun 1 '18 at 12:08
GWildGWild
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WiFi Latency is tough to measure accurately: a lot of variables. A few nasty events are like a neighbor starts streaming a movie and hogs the channel your router is using and forces a channel swap; your DHCP lease can run out requiring the network to drop until a new lease is negotiated; the OS or Chrome or even the game can decide to check for updates while you are at 3% in a boss fight.
I use PING and the default 4 replies tells me enough that the WiFi is working as normal. You can add -n 300 to get five minutes worth.
On my old world router I see an average under 15ms... where a cable yields <1ms.
For grins just checked my notebook, and it confirms 20ms spikes. But it said 2ms min, 19ms max, 4ms average.
answered Jun 1 '18 at 12:08
GWildGWild
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WiFi Latency is tough to measure accurately: a lot of variables. A few nasty events are like a neighbor starts streaming a movie and hogs the channel your router is using and forces a channel swap; your DHCP lease can run out requiring the network to drop until a new lease is negotiated; the OS or Chrome or even the game can decide to check for updates while you are at 3% in a boss fight.
I use PING and the default 4 replies tells me enough that the WiFi is working as normal. You can add -n 300 to get five minutes worth.
On my old world router I see an average under 15ms... where a cable yields <1ms.
For grins just checked my notebook, and it confirms 20ms spikes. But it said 2ms min, 19ms max, 4ms average.
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Frankly speaking, the average latency of a WiFi network is far more than the wired network. Generally, wired network is less than 1 ms, while WiFi network is 1–3ms, which is 10–100 times of the former;
Why? Because the WiFi network need go through the operation of encryption and decryption which takes a lot of time. In contrast, wired network only need hardware operation and transmission so that its latency is quite small;
Last but not least, for WiFi network, the keypoint is NETWORK SIGNAL. The higher the network signal, the lower the ping is. That’s to say, the network speed is mainly depends on its signal quality.
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Frankly speaking, the average latency of a WiFi network is far more than the wired network. Generally, wired network is less than 1 ms, while WiFi network is 1–3ms, which is 10–100 times of the former;
Why? Because the WiFi network need go through the operation of encryption and decryption which takes a lot of time. In contrast, wired network only need hardware operation and transmission so that its latency is quite small;
Last but not least, for WiFi network, the keypoint is NETWORK SIGNAL. The higher the network signal, the lower the ping is. That’s to say, the network speed is mainly depends on its signal quality.
enter image description here
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Frankly speaking, the average latency of a WiFi network is far more than the wired network. Generally, wired network is less than 1 ms, while WiFi network is 1–3ms, which is 10–100 times of the former;
Why? Because the WiFi network need go through the operation of encryption and decryption which takes a lot of time. In contrast, wired network only need hardware operation and transmission so that its latency is quite small;
Last but not least, for WiFi network, the keypoint is NETWORK SIGNAL. The higher the network signal, the lower the ping is. That’s to say, the network speed is mainly depends on its signal quality.
enter image description here
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Frankly speaking, the average latency of a WiFi network is far more than the wired network. Generally, wired network is less than 1 ms, while WiFi network is 1–3ms, which is 10–100 times of the former;
Why? Because the WiFi network need go through the operation of encryption and decryption which takes a lot of time. In contrast, wired network only need hardware operation and transmission so that its latency is quite small;
Last but not least, for WiFi network, the keypoint is NETWORK SIGNAL. The higher the network signal, the lower the ping is. That’s to say, the network speed is mainly depends on its signal quality.
enter image description here
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Gaming while using WiFi never is a good idea.
– LPChip
Jun 1 '18 at 11:49
On a regular Ethernet network, the maximum packet size is 1500 bytes. That means your ping packet is fragmented into at least 43 packets, resulting in additional latency. This test is meaningless.
– Daniel B
Jun 1 '18 at 11:51
WiFi is subject to interference from microwave ovens, cordless phone, Bluetooth devices, "wireless" devices, sunspots and a thousand other things as well as other WiFi networks and devices. Unless you live in an anechoic chamber then you cannot be sure of a consistent latency.
– Mokubai♦
Jun 1 '18 at 11:59