need lowest latency possible

[bcredeur97]

Hey guys, I have an ongoing build for my Father ( http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/188157-in-progress-my-fathers-trading-pc-build/ )

 

And since he is day trading, we need the absolute lowest latency possible from his office network.

 

Heres what I know for sure we need:
 

1. A fiber connection

2. A good router, no matter the brand all we care about is latency

3. high quality wired connection

4. idk cant think of anything else

 

 

numbers 1 and 3 are done. We are paying for 10 Mbit/s up/down Business grade fiber connection (don't really need bandwidth just low latency) And we bought 50 feet of CAT 7 cable to run to the other room from the router.

 

Now I know the least we will need is a good router. In my own experience routers do make a difference with latency, so I would like to know what is the best to git for latency on the wired side anyway. (he needs wireless too but doesnt have to be AC or anything special, though that would be nice)

 

We will be upgrading from a Linksys Wireless G only router (which we put in his office a while back because he needed nothing special at the time) which used to be in our home, we since upgraded the home router to a WZR-600DHP from buffalo and I know that made ping times go down by like 10ms on avg so I know the one he has is terrible on latency.

 

Was going to get a buffalo WZR-1750DHP being Buffalo has worked well in the past for us, but being this is special case and all I want is low latency, I thought I would ask.

 

 

Any and all help is appreciated. Also if there is anything else we need besides a good router at this point, make sure to let me know

or maybe we dont need a router at all; a good network switch? idk you tell me

[Enderman]

I don't think a couple ms of latency is going to make a difference. Any high quality router will be fine.

[bcredeur97]

I don't think a couple ms of latency is going to make a difference. Any high quality router will be fine.

you say that, but we want it all if we can get it all. Plus a little future-padding (not proofing ) wont hurt lol

[Kevin Fletcher]

you say that, but we want it all if we can get it all. Plus a little future-padding (not proofing ) wont hurt lol

 

Like Enderman said, there shouldn't much much of a difference between any high end solution, in fact there is more of a chance of the wireless card of the computer causing more issues with latency than the router itself. But if latency is that important to you guys it might be worth it just to plug the Ethernet cord in.

[Panda689]

Remove the router from the equation completely, and connect directly to the modem. Get the fastest cpu you can get, and a decent software firewall. Other than that I don't think you're looking at consumer grade equipment, you should be looking at enterprise stuff, which will add up quickly.