Keep it simple

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Wireless peripheral devices, sure, but if I'm streaming 4K with HD sound then I still want copper.

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Even shitty wireless will let you stream 4k. It only takes 50mbps. 802.11g came out in 2003 and can do 54mbps.

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No one should trust you if you don't know that since .ac we have had beam forming and it got better in .ax

This router pictured is a ROG Rapture GT-AX11000 Pro that has .ax

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That can be an advantage. Some of the enterprise-level tech has trickled down to consumer WiFi in recent years, which includes browsing between multiple access points. With several access points with relatively weak signal, you get signal right where you need it without broadcasting up and down the street.

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What do you plug that cable into??

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I've been playing FPS exclusively on wireless for almost 15 years (802.11n 5ghz) and stability has been fine unless you set up your access point far away from your gaming PC for some reason.

Back then you had to get a pretty nice wireless router to do it, but it still worked fine.
Now days even relatively cheap routers will let you game just fine unless you set up far away from the AP and you're in a pro tournament.

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I eat my pizza rolls cold, like a savage

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Not everyone is comfortable drilling walls and installing plates, stripping wires, etc. and CAT cables aren't like simple copper electrical wires.

And not everyone wants to have cables running along their floorboard and up their stairs

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I mean, beam forming is a pretty common feature of these routers.

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Patch panel if you're on the closet side. RJ45 Jack on the station side.

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Who buys a $300 home wifi box? Be realistic

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Shitty wireless lets you stream shitty 4K. Yay? Copper is still king for anything that's not a goddamn webrip.

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If you arent sensitive to jitter, packet loss, etc., and the various ways games react to it, then im happy for you.

Personally, i and many others hate it. It only takes 1 rubber band moment in a shooter to ruin a round, it only takes 1 round to lose a match. Even if you aren't playing super sweaty, its not fun. Even my wife who only games casually noticed the difference between wireless vs wired in a few different shooters after i ran a wire to her new desk. And we do have a good setup overall.

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Dude, what you're describing is not a "good setup overall".

I know I'm not sweaty, but what you're talking about goes beyond being "sensitive" or not. Wtf is wrong with your wifi that you're getting any packet loss.

I just ran a speed test multiple times from my phone in another room, and got jitter under 20ms, and packet loss between 0% and 0.1%
My gaming PC with external antenna in the same room as my wireless AP is going to get even better results.

So I'm curious what kind of numbers you're expecting to be noticable to a casual or even sweaty non-pro player?

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It doesn't even cost that much for a decent wifi AP either.

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Wtf dude, that was the example you provided, and then you mocked it. Make up your mind.
If it was a shitty example, why did you use it?

What would be a good example of things people commonly want and have access to but that wireless cant do?

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And what is in the closet?

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MIMO improves throughput if you have an Internet link it can saturate; realistically even a midrange 2x2 802.11AC router will provide more wifi bandwidth than your internet does.

And that's where the fat controller says you are wrong. I have 1000 Mbps down. I've yet to actually hit that speed with WiFi 6.

Also newer WiFi standards significantly improve latency. That's nothing to do with having more antennas though you would be correct there.

The meme is correct. A $6 ethernet cable beats any and all wifi routers and client adapters, and always will.

With current technology you would be correct. But as for the always part: Ethernet is an electrical signal, so it's actually slower than microwave signals used by WiFi, and the WiFi signals can also take a more direct path. So in the future WiFi or LiFi could in fact be faster. It's the processing delay, and scheduling that makes WiFi have higher latency. Not the physical medium.

Before you say this is all academic because of the small distances involved I would remind you that propagation delay is actually a large issue in current microelectronics and computers. Sometimes parts of the same chip are far enough apart to create problems for the engineers due to the high clockspeeds of modern devices.

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Curve ball.... I use power line and for my property and in my use case it is not any different to ethernet.

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Honestly, my place isn't that big, but I can cover the whole place with a single wireless access point, and get fast, reliable, stable connection everywhere.

In the room with the AP (my home office and gaming PC) I have zero jitter, zero packet loss, and 2ms ping.

Wire hasn't been needed for a good connection for a long time