Message from @squoge

2017-10-12 08:24:59 UTC

I'm gonna live in a dorm next year without ethernet

2017-10-12 08:25:04 UTC

That technology all comes down to your house wireing, so no thanks.

2017-10-12 08:25:06 UTC

So I **need** wifi

2017-10-12 08:25:10 UTC

I see.

2017-10-12 08:25:36 UTC

Isn't it possible to talk them into giving you ethernet cable access in your room?

2017-10-12 08:26:43 UTC

I got put into one of the older buildings without ethernet in the walls, it's wifi only

2017-10-12 08:26:55 UTC

Oh damn

2017-10-12 08:26:59 UTC

>gaming on dorm internet

2017-10-12 08:27:03 UTC

forget about it

2017-10-12 08:27:09 UTC

Sorry to hear that. You will not be able to live without lag.

Phatique

2017-10-12 08:27:16 UTC

dorm internet is minimum 100/100 here

2017-10-12 08:27:30 UTC

crowded wifi with a guaranteed shit router means you will never have any less than 200ms

2017-10-12 08:27:37 UTC

Dude the speeds are 100mb down 50 up

2017-10-12 08:27:51 UTC

that's not the problem

2017-10-12 08:27:56 UTC

idk about latency, I could only ping google.com on the wifi on my phone and it was around 50ms

2017-10-12 08:29:05 UTC

So is that wifi card any good for recieving the speeds capable?

2017-10-12 08:29:16 UTC

I'm no expert on wifi technology

Phatique

2017-10-12 08:31:02 UTC

lfmao wi-fi only? there is a fiber plug in every room here. based statefunded internet architecture.

2017-10-12 08:31:41 UTC

he's going to be living in an old building, not the new ones. Ofc there's no fiber plug.

2017-10-12 08:32:18 UTC

I've heard the wifi is really good from the residents living there

2017-10-12 08:32:33 UTC

Keep in mind these are macbook and iphone loving people

2017-10-12 08:32:38 UTC

>dorm
well if they do 802.11 only then you're fucked for gayming anyway

2017-10-12 08:32:55 UTC

the sheer amount of 2.4ghz noise and devices will make it hard to play vidya

2017-10-12 08:34:28 UTC

what is best case scenario?

2017-10-12 08:34:30 UTC

200ms?

2017-10-12 08:34:41 UTC

i'm not much worried about latency

2017-10-12 08:34:44 UTC

but rather packet loss

2017-10-12 08:35:09 UTC

My friend lives in a dorm, he uses an wifi card in his pc, he lags in fps, something like 90-100ms

2017-10-12 08:35:14 UTC

if you can ping from your phone with a terminal emulator, try ``ping -s 1000 -c 5000 8.8.8.8``

2017-10-12 08:35:26 UTC

1k packet size, 5000 times, google dns

2017-10-12 08:35:52 UTC

actually

2017-10-12 08:36:06 UTC

make it 1000 times, that should be enough and end quicker

2017-10-12 08:36:12 UTC

and check the packet loss

2017-10-12 08:36:15 UTC

at the end

2017-10-12 08:36:18 UTC

@Austin that's not bad wtf

2017-10-12 08:36:31 UTC

it enough for him to lag, that's for sure

2017-10-12 08:36:48 UTC

also check ping times to the router

2017-10-12 08:36:55 UTC

it's to the point where he just went back to wow because of the lagh