optic fiber

[garbeth]

So i was thinking at home while waiting for my game to start online, and i had a thought about the lag. and here is my conclusion, will it be possible to modify a router and a LAN card to get optic fiber inside the house so the delay betwen the router and the PC get reduced? what you guys think about it?

[unidentical]

On a gigabit network any lag you're going to get is not between PC and router, much more likely between modem and game servers.

[Denned]

I wouldn't affect anything. Unless you sit a few hundred meters of cable away from your router, then it might have a VERY small effect (maybe decrease it by one ms).

 

Try to open cmd (ctrl+r and type cmd and enter) and then type ipconfig to see the IP of your standardgateway. Then type "ping 192.168.1.1" or whatever your IP is. You MS will most likely be 1-2.

[Ssoele]

I wouldn't affect anything. Unless you sit a few hundred meters of cable away from your router, then it might have a VERY small effect (maybe decrease it by one ms).

 

Try to open cmd (ctrl+r and type cmd and enter) and then type ipconfig to see the IP of your standardgateway. Then type "ping 192.168.1.1" or whatever your IP is. You MS will most likely be 1-2.

Pinging 172.16.1.1 with 32 bytes of data:Reply from 172.16.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64Reply from 172.16.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64Reply from 172.16.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64Reply from 172.16.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64Ping statistics for 172.16.1.1:    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

Not even measurable.

[xXxYOLOxSWAGxXx_420BlazeIt]

Yeah its completely pointless unless you need 10gbps transfer speeds on your LAN.

[garbeth]

I´m not talking about the internet connection or the ping,I´m talking about the delay that get produced betwen the router and the PC, I know now can be pointless but meabe in the future like 2 or 3 years could do a big difference. Its just an Idea.

[unidentical]

It's going to be a long time before the latency between router and pc is impactful for online gaming

[Hyydrah]

So i was thinking at home while waiting for my game to start online, and i had a thought about the lag. and here is my conclusion, will it be possible to modify a router and a LAN card to get optic fiber inside the house so the delay betwen the router and the PC get reduced? what you guys think about it?

It depends on what you mean by "waiting for my game to start". It could be anything from your ISP to your storage device that is the bottleneck.

[Hyydrah]

Do you mean that your ping is high?

[Ssoele]

I´m not talking about the internet connection or the ping,I´m talking about the delay that get produced betwen the router and the PC

Well, that is part of your ping

[Denned]

I´m not talking about the internet connection or the ping,I´m talking about the delay that get produced betwen the router and the PC, I know now can be pointless but meabe in the future like 2 or 3 years could do a big difference. Its just an Idea.

As seen in the ping dump Ssoele posted earlier, you can see that the delay is most often less than 1ms. And it's the last thing that'll be a problem :)

[Christian]

Yerr fibre in the home is pretty poinltess for gaming. We will probably have it in 10 years or so, who knows, but right now there is no need