In home game streaming

[Vendinmachine]

Im looking for the best way and best device for this and the internet doesnt have many answers except deal with it. As we know game streaming latency sucks. Moonlight seems to be the best for me but my pc is about 20m from my lounge and theres a cat6 cable run to it. The latency is quite low. My wife cant notice it but its almost like trying to use your pc on a tv without game mode turned of for me. The best device ive found to use with lowest latency is my note 9 using usbc to hdmi and plugging an eithernet cable into it. Kind of sad. Ive tried a few other devices but it has the fastest connection seeing as the other devices are only 100/10. Even using 5ghz wifi is better than a 100/10 device hard wired. Maybe its the bluetooth supported by the devices as your controller has to connect and then send information to the pc obviously. Not sure if that would introduce latency much. I really want to see someone do a video with in home fiber set up for lowest latency on a device with a 1000mbps eithernet port. Obviously the problem is that if the device and setup is too expensive then you may as well just have a second pc in the lounge. I got a 3080 just sitting in my office and i just want to use it on my 4k tv with as little latency as possible damn it!

[Electronics Wizardy]

Most of that latency probably isn't the network, but rather the encoding and decoding of the video. Fiber networks in a home don't really make a differences here compared to copper at the same speed.

 

Most programs show a seprate latency for network/encode/decode. Does moonligth show this?

[Vendinmachine]

1 hour ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Most of that latency probably isn't the network, but rather the encoding and decoding of the video. Fiber networks in a home don't really make a differences here compared to copper at the same speed.

 

Most programs show a seprate latency for network/encode/decode. Does moonligth show this?

Yeah it shows it but there are random high spikes and i have no idea why. Im not sure why.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Vendinmachine said:

Yeah it shows it but there are random high spikes and i have no idea why. Im not sure why.

Are you sure its not a encode or decode spike?

 

What is the usage on the interfaces?

 

What router and switches are you using?

 

If your router has 10/100 ports only id replace them with a model with gigabit.

[Vendinmachine]

I got a gigabit router. Theres a 20m cat6 running from it to my pc and then a 3m cat 6 running to my device. So there isnt much to go wrong really. It may be a decoding spike but it happens enough to make games unplayable. Moonlight uses special decoding for nvidia cards but tbh i dont know enough about that. But my router shouldnt be a problem. Moonlight has a speed test on it and it seems to max out at 150mbps on the actual test. I dont think it tests higher because the slider maxes out at 150 when you turn up the quality. I cant believe people get better results than me on like 30mbps XD. Ive gone through 2 routers which were both gb routers so i dont think theyd both have the same problem. 

[Vendinmachine]

7 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Are you sure its not a encode or decode spike?

 

What is the usage on the interfaces?

 

What router and switches are you using?

 

If your router has 10/100 ports only id replace them with a model with gigabit.

 

I got a gigabit router. Theres a 20m cat6 running from it to my pc and then a 3m cat 6 running to my device. So there isnt much to go wrong really. It may be a decoding spike but it happens enough to make games unplayable. Moonlight uses special decoding for nvidia cards but tbh i dont know enough about that. But my router shouldnt be a problem. Moonlight has a speed test on it and it seems to max out at 150mbps on the actual test. I dont think it tests higher because the slider maxes out at 150 when you turn up the quality. I cant believe people get better results than me on like 30mbps XD. Ive gone through 2 routers which were both gb routers so i dont think theyd both have the same problem.