Need help deciding on network solution

[m0k]

- My router is near the back of the house in the living room on the main floor

- My room is at the opposite end, the front of the house on the second floor

 

I currently have a long ugly blue ethernet cable running across my house to the router

My other option is to use my Asus USB-N13 which seems to be dying as it frequently loses connection

 

Option 1:
Get a new Wireless AC adapter for my pc (my router supports AC) however the 5ghz signal is really weak in my room

Option 2:
My room has a Coaxial plug on the wall, I cant move my current modem and router
So is there a cheap combo unit on the market that  i can buy to install in my room? (modem+router)

Will an aftermarket modem work at all? Im currently with Rogers Interner but i might be switching to a cheaper 3rd party provider soon (teksavvy or ebox)

[TheSlicingEdge]

What internet speeds do you want to achieve? I am in the same situation as you except my wifi does 130 down and 12 up next to the router and modem. so I have a nice wifi adapter on my PC giving 20 down and 5up. I am a casual gamer so its not like trying to connect to some servers is much.

 

EDIT:

Keep in mind that is on 2.4ghz 5 dosnt do well with walls. Personally I would go with the best bang for buck wifi adapter you can find.

[m0k]

1 minute ago, TheSlicingEdge said:

What internet speeds do you want to achieve? I am in the same situation as you except my wifi does 130 down and 12 up next to the router and modem. so I have a nice wifi adapter on my PC giving 20 down and 5up. I am a casual gamer so its not like trying to connect to some servers is much.

Wow us canadians can only dream of having a internet package like yours.

With Ethernet im getting the full speeds that im paying for which is 40down 5up 
I prefer having a wired connection if possible because on 802.11n 2.4ghz from across the house i get 24down 5up and a whole lot of latency which ends up being awful for games

 

[TheSlicingEdge]

2 minutes ago, mok said:

Wow us canadians can only dream of having a internet package like yours.

With Ethernet im getting the full speeds that im paying for which is 40down 5up 
I prefer having a wired connection if possible because on 802.11n 2.4ghz from across the house i get 24down 5up and a whole lot of latency which ends up being awful for games

 

Yea I see now. Im not the best with the internets. I think running a coaxial cable then would be your only/best option.

I don't know how you would run that though.

[Wolther]

Maybe try powerline? Seems to be a much better solution for this.

[Tosnic]

I recently tested the connection of Powerline, because I had some concerns regarding increased ping. You may want to take this into account, altough Linus did not mention any of this in his recent video.

 

 

I have TP-Link powerline adaptors with up to 200 Mbit/s. Those also create their own WLAN or extend your existing WLAN if you give it the same SSID.

There are three scenarios in my case: 

1. PC -> router (Wifi through 1 ceiling and some walls).
2. PC -> powerline adaptor (Wifi), directly next to each other, then Powerline adaptor -> router (powerline).
3. PC -> powerline adaptor (LAN cable), then Powerline adaptor -> router (powerline).

With 1 I had a ping of about 2 ms, but the transfer rate was inconsistent.

With 2 the ping was inconsistent, with the first package often taking 400 ms and the following being around 40 ms. The transfer rate was rather consistent.

With 3 the ping was much more consistent, around 12 ms. The transfer rate was rather consistent.

 

To conclude, I would say that powerline adds only little lag to gaming, depending on your base ping. The bright side: Powerline has much more consistent transfer rates than wifi. Do not forget that each powerline adaptor uses some power (mine: 5W). They probably will not work on power surge protected extension leads and will have reduced transfer rates on regular extension leads.

 

 

As a side note, powerline seems to create temporary, spontaneous DNS errors on my PS3. Those usually last a couple of minutes and then go away by themselves.

[m0k]

14 hours ago, Tosnic said:

I recently tested the connection of Powerline, because I had some concerns regarding increased ping. You may want to take this into account, altough Linus did not mention any of this in his recent video.

 

 

I have TP-Link powerline adaptors with up to 200 Mbit/s. Those also create their own WLAN or extend your existing WLAN if you give it the same SSID.

There are three scenarios in my case: 

1. PC -> router (Wifi through 1 ceiling and some walls).
2. PC -> powerline adaptor (Wifi), directly next to each other, then Powerline adaptor -> router (powerline).
3. PC -> powerline adaptor (LAN cable), then Powerline adaptor -> router (powerline).

With 1 I had a ping of about 2 ms, but the transfer rate was inconsistent.

With 2 the ping was inconsistent, with the first package often taking 400 ms and the following being around 40 ms. The transfer rate was rather consistent.

With 3 the ping was much more consistent, around 12 ms. The transfer rate was rather consistent.

 

To conclude, I would say that powerline adds only little lag to gaming, depending on your base ping. The bright side: Powerline has much more consistent transfer rates than wifi. Do not forget that each powerline adaptor uses some power (mine: 5W). They probably will not work on power surge protected extension leads and will have reduced transfer rates on regular extension leads.

 

 

As a side note, powerline seems to create temporary, spontaneous DNS errors on my PS3. Those usually last a couple of minutes and then go away by themselves.

nice, thanks for all this info!