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I have been using this on and off in beta. If possible I highly recommend a wired network connection. I have been testing it on a WRT54GL and that was not alw
by mey 12y ago
I have been using this on and off in beta. If possible I highly recommend a wired network connection. I have been testing it on a WRT54GL and that was not always sufficient. When my AC router is not misbehaving (ASUS RT-AC66U) I've been able to play online FPS shooters surprisingly well. Fighting games or FPS that are heavily twitch based won't work, but pretty much anything that can suffer the occasional frame drop or isn't precision works well.
tl;dr You may need an N wifi router or better that is rock solid to make things run smooth.
- rb2k_ 12y agoYou ARE using a 9 year old router, considering that probably all other hardware (PC, Laptop, Consoles, Phones, Tablets, ...) was replaced since then and most cable connections can't be maxed out with that wifi speed (After forward error correction you'll end up with about 30 mbit/s), a lot of things might be happier if you switched that one out :)
- mey 12y agoI'm actually running two access points right now. One of things I've valued the WRT54G on has been it's stability, where my AC router tends to crap all over itself depending on how demanding the active video streams are. Additionally, I barely get 15mbit down from Comcast currently.
- sliverstorm 12y agoThis has always been my experience with brand-new wireless standards. I wait a bit to buy in. Bought my N450 router right when AC was first coming out, it has been great.
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- StavrosK 12y agoWhich modern router do you propose? I am currently running Tomato, it's a great balance of ease-of-use and customizability. I'm not interested in having to do everything on the command line on the router as well, so if a modern router can run some great version of Tomato, it would be fantastic.
- mey 12y agoLinksys recently launched the WRT1900AC as a spiritual successor (in theory) to the WRT54G, but I'm waiting a bit to see how true that is.
- alexcroox 12y agoCan anyone recommend something a little more affordable?
- jaegerpicker 12y agoI've had extraordinarily good luck with the apple AirPort Extreme. Handles wifi n traffic and is rock solid. I can regularly play twitch games over it or stream 1080 p without issue.
- retroafroman 12y agoI went from dd-wrt on a WRT54G to a TP-LINK TL-WR841NR with OpenWRT and it feels almost exactly the same. I even setup my network with the exact same SSID and password and my devices acted like nothing changed.
- supergauntlet 12y agoTP-Link WDR3600/4300 are both solid routers with Atheros chipsets (which means they have full open source support) that are also fairly cheap.
- StavrosK 12y agoOh wow, you can buy a laptop for that! I thought the appeal of the WRT54GL was that it cost $80?
- sliverstorm 12y agoMy RT-N66U handles 720p just as well as my powerline network does, at least with a good signal, and that's on 2.4GHz with 2-3 interfering channels. If you can't get WiFi to perform, don't be surprised, but it isn't impossible. Just remember to turn off your bluetooth stuff, my connection was terrible at first and I'm pretty sure shutting down my active bluetooth connections are what fixed it. (Alas, if only my client was 5GHz) P.S. My rendering machine is always wired through powerline, so my setup does have an advantage in that the rendering machine isn't competing for wireless bandwidth with the client!