5 ms·

You get Ethernet for Gigabit speed, not latency. 5x 30 Euro routers in Wireless Bridge mode would've delivered the same latency. And I could've done the wiring

• znpy 5y ago
  Ethernet will almost never have noisy neighbors problems though. Also, if GP had laid cat-6 cables maybe they might upgrade switch and clients to 10gbit/sec Ethernet.
• maccard 5y ago
  How do you know you could have done it for 2/3 of the price? All my internal walls are solid brick, so running a cable from one end to the other would involve drilling through at least one, but likely 3 brick walls, and either channeling through the wall or pulling up the hardwood floors above them. No way are you going to install 5 points for €500 in a job like that. Also Ethernet is definitely useful for latency. Having sub 1ms latency on a wifi network is very very difficult, and definitely not going to happen with 5 routers.
• jclulow 5y ago
  That's not really true in noisy areas. The available radio spectrum is limited, and as more users inhabit an area you are basically time-sharing. The less time you have to send packets, the more latency some of those packets will experience. Empirically, wifi latency can be _extremely_ poor in busy areas.