@Player55 wrote:Use wired connexion, that way, you internet will perform at its best.
Wifi can cause some lags and interruptions, especially if you use a wifi adapter on your PC.
Fully agreed @Player55 ,
Any FPS game should absolutely not be played through a WiFi connection!
Even with a great home WiFi setup, you will always have a high variation of latency and especially inbound package losses. These two issues are like toxic to a good game experience. Both for the player himself/herself but also to all his enemies in the gameplay.
Same btw for the players thinking about using a 3G or 4G connection.
Please don't.
Both for WiFi and 3G/4G, your average line speeds might be fantastic and all, but the quality of the line is simply not supportive of FPS gaming, due to the nature of the technology which allows/causes high latency variations and frequent package loss.
Hard wiring all the way, is the way to go!
Eeeh, little less clear cut than some make it out to be, though it's arguably correct you'll have the lowest latency on a wired connection, *all other factors being equal*.
If your ISP is a satellite ISP for instance, it won't make much difference if you've got fiber between your router and PC at home, or if your ISP has you on gigabit fiber but your traceroute shows that your traffic is being bounced via the parent company of said ISP 7 countries away before routing it to it's intended destination adding a nice 80ms via a comical amount of hops, it doesn't matter than your home lan is 10gbit capable/all wired/packet traffic prioritized.
(i've changed ISPs in the past due to the last scenario)
You can do just fine on 4g/5g (especially the latter) if that's your dedicated gaming connection for instance, provided your routing setup is either dedicated to just you or at least some kind of QoS set up to prioritize your gaming device packets.
It's never quite as simple as "wired is best", though as others have stated and i said at the start, yea, all other things being equal then you'd be better off wired, but it's not the end of the world if that's not an option nor is 4g/5g/wifi "bad" for gaming, it's just not "the best if you can throw money at the problem".
Some 5g peddlers claim (and i emphasize claim here, as the 5g provider in my area certainly can't provide it) to provide wireless house broadband with 5ms latency to the backend, at which point you're generally better off than your average coax broadband provider.
Again though, still have to add latency between your home router and the gaming device, or in the OPs case, whatever his access point is while away.
Been a while since i needed to, but i've used my phone as a travel-AP plenty of times because the hotel net was garbage with both 3g/4g/5g, it works "fine". Not optimal, but certainly better than random hotel networks unless you pay for the business options some provide.(and even then it might be better latency-wise).
4g and up my "oh i absolutely need a dedicated gfx card, you know, for presentations" laptop has been more of an issue than the network connection tbh.
