Over wifi ...is this good enough for gaming?

[Siddhant Mishra]

[Olaf6541]

yes

[Kisai]

24 minutes ago, Siddhant Mishra said:

I'd be wary of the "multi" statement in that speed test. Sounds like the device is connected via WiFi and LTE.

 

Playing most games, any latency under 20ms is considered good, and under 6ms is considered well beyond acceptable. 

 

Bandwidth, most games, even bad ones, don't push more than 128Kbit in both directions, so that's still viable even on LTE. Fiber > xDSL > Cable > Wireless connections when it comes to gaming. 

 

Wireless is not reliable. Period. So even if that might be what you're getting, it's still possible to overload the access point or the hotspot device.

 

[Siddhant Mishra]

10 minutes ago, Kisai said:

I'd be wary of the "multi" statement in that speed test. Sounds like the device is connected via WiFi and LTE.

 

Playing most games, any latency under 20ms is considered good, and under 6ms is considered well beyond acceptable. 

 

Bandwidth, most games, even bad ones, don't push more than 128Kbit in both directions, so that's still viable even on LTE. Fiber > xDSL > Cable > Wireless connections when it comes to gaming. 

 

Wireless is not reliable. Period. So even if that might be what you're getting, it's still possible to overload the access point or the hotspot device.

 

Okay my config is this... over wifi to my wifi extender ( NOTE: not a repeater) and then plugged into my laptop via Ethernet (from extender )

[WereCatf]

1 hour ago, Kisai said:

I'd be wary of the "multi" statement in that speed test. Sounds like the device is connected via WiFi and LTE.

No, the multi-thing is about SpeedTest making multiple simultaneous connections to the server, not that it uses both WiFi and mobile-data simultaneously. It's pretty standard now in all speedtest-thingamabobs to give this option.

[DoctorNick]

Test with this instead: http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest

[jiyeon]

Online gaming is generally very lenient on bandwidth so that's more than good enough, hell you could probably stream 1080p video with that.

[LogicalDrm]

Speed testing has little to no point when you want to know actual stability. Like said, gaming uses very little of bandwidth (so 2/1 connection is enough for just gaming). But whether WiFi can keep up stable connection is the key. So you need to run longer file transfer and see if speed drops or connection cuts while doing it.

 

It depends on game how long of drop it takes to matter.