WiFi vs Wired and Oppoenents Question
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Okay - I know being wired is always preferred.
My wired connection is a little over 800 Mbps, and my WiFi connection is a little over 250 Mbps.
I am going to play a league game tomorrow where my opponent is on Wifi and around 200 Mbps.
Will our game be smoother if my speed is more closely matched to his, or will it matter?
Also, I am going to stream the game, so that will take up some of my bandwidth too.
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@Blind_Bleeder said in WiFi vs Wired and Oppoenents Question:
Okay - I know being wired is always preferred.
My wired connection is a little over 800 Mbps, and my WiFi connection is a little over 250 Mbps.
I am going to play a league game tomorrow where my opponent is on Wifi and around 200 Mbps.
Will our game be smoother if my speed is more closely matched to his, or will it matter?
Also, I am going to stream the game, so that will take up some of my bandwidth too.
Who is the home team? Usually the connection is based on whomever is the home team. But it can vary.
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My opponent will be home.
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Download speeds will not determine how smooth the game will be. As long as both parties can download at least 12mbps you should be ok there. So 200 or 800 is way plenty for a game. Your pings to the server will make more of a difference. Doesnt matter if you can download a file somewhere at 800mbps, if your ping to the game server is high, game will most likely not be smooth.
Of course, we have no way to test this, well there is, but no convenient way to test this stuff.
https://www.kaspersky.com/resource-center/preemptive-safety/how-to-improve-game-performance
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@chuckclc_MLBTS said in WiFi vs Wired and Oppoenents Question:
Download speeds will not determine how smooth the game will be. As long as both parties can download at least 12mbps you should be ok there. So 200 or 800 is way plenty for a game. Your pings to the server will make more of a difference. Doesnt matter if you can download a file somewhere at 800mbps, if your ping to the game server is high, game will most likely not be smooth.
Of course, we have no way to test this, well there is, but no convenient way to test this stuff.
https://www.kaspersky.com/resource-center/preemptive-safety/how-to-improve-game-performance
This makes complete sense. If we only had access to the IP addresses of the game servers, we could ping the one our game would be on to give us some indication.
Thank you!
"Give me one ping only!"
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Well. Using wired on RL I used to get 20/22 ping
Moved house, wifi only. 8 ping.
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@MrMcGibblets_MLBTS said in WiFi vs Wired and Oppoenents Question:
@Blind_Bleeder said in WiFi vs Wired and Oppoenents Question:
Okay - I know being wired is always preferred.
My wired connection is a little over 800 Mbps, and my WiFi connection is a little over 250 Mbps.
I am going to play a league game tomorrow where my opponent is on Wifi and around 200 Mbps.
Will our game be smoother if my speed is more closely matched to his, or will it matter?
Also, I am going to stream the game, so that will take up some of my bandwidth too.
Who is the home team? Usually the connection is based on whomever is the home team. But it can vary.
How do you know this? SDS never ever releases any information on their networking infrastructure, to frustration of many, so I'm curious if you have some additional information or if you're simply parotting an urban legend in the community?
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@raesONE-_PSN said in WiFi vs Wired and Oppoenents Question:
@MrMcGibblets_MLBTS said in WiFi vs Wired and Oppoenents Question:
@Blind_Bleeder said in WiFi vs Wired and Oppoenents Question:
Okay - I know being wired is always preferred.
My wired connection is a little over 800 Mbps, and my WiFi connection is a little over 250 Mbps.
I am going to play a league game tomorrow where my opponent is on Wifi and around 200 Mbps.
Will our game be smoother if my speed is more closely matched to his, or will it matter?
Also, I am going to stream the game, so that will take up some of my bandwidth too.
Who is the home team? Usually the connection is based on whomever is the home team. But it can vary.
How do you know this? SDS never ever releases any information on their networking infrastructure, to frustration of many, so I'm curious if you have some additional information or if you're simply parotting an urban legend in the community?
I'm assuming that since you can usually tell by the lag in the pitcher select screen, while not 100% confirmed, who the home team will be. And I'm assuming that if the SDS servers are Peer to Peer that would mean whomever is hosting the game it would be based off their connection.
Anytime I've played online, small sample size as I just started playing only a month or so ago, I've noticed that when I'm the Away team the game is laggy even though I'm running 1GB internet and am connected via an Ethernet cable.
When I'm the Home team, the game runs smoother that it does when I'm the Away team.
I'm not 100% positive that is the case. Just speculating.
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@MrMcGibblets_MLBTS said in WiFi vs Wired and Oppoenents Question:
@raesONE-_PSN said in WiFi vs Wired and Oppoenents Question:
@MrMcGibblets_MLBTS said in WiFi vs Wired and Oppoenents Question:
@Blind_Bleeder said in WiFi vs Wired and Oppoenents Question:
Okay - I know being wired is always preferred.
My wired connection is a little over 800 Mbps, and my WiFi connection is a little over 250 Mbps.
I am going to play a league game tomorrow where my opponent is on Wifi and around 200 Mbps.
Will our game be smoother if my speed is more closely matched to his, or will it matter?
Also, I am going to stream the game, so that will take up some of my bandwidth too.
Who is the home team? Usually the connection is based on whomever is the home team. But it can vary.
How do you know this? SDS never ever releases any information on their networking infrastructure, to frustration of many, so I'm curious if you have some additional information or if you're simply parotting an urban legend in the community?
I'm assuming that since you can usually tell by the lag in the pitcher select screen, while not 100% confirmed, who the home team will be. And I'm assuming that if the SDS servers are Peer to Peer that would mean whomever is hosting the game it would be based off their connection.
Anytime I've played online, small sample size as I just started playing only a month or so ago, I've noticed that when I'm the Away team the game is laggy even though I'm running 1GB internet and am connected via an Ethernet cable.
When I'm the Home team, the game runs smoother that it does when I'm the Away team.
I'm not 100% positive that is the case. Just speculating.
The game is laggy regardless. This networking code is one of the worst out there. And even though it is P2P, both clients still have to communicate to the SDS servers which adds another factor into the equation which is the client's distance to that server. Nobody knows where those servers are located though, but it makes sense to speculate that they are on the West Coast and on the East Coast. Doubt they are somewhere in the middle of the continent, because like you I run a 1GB wired fiber connection in Texas and the connection is generally bad. Home or away.
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@raesONE-_PSN said in WiFi vs Wired and Oppoenents Question:
@MrMcGibblets_MLBTS said in WiFi vs Wired and Oppoenents Question:
@raesONE-_PSN said in WiFi vs Wired and Oppoenents Question:
@MrMcGibblets_MLBTS said in WiFi vs Wired and Oppoenents Question:
@Blind_Bleeder said in WiFi vs Wired and Oppoenents Question:
Okay - I know being wired is always preferred.
My wired connection is a little over 800 Mbps, and my WiFi connection is a little over 250 Mbps.
I am going to play a league game tomorrow where my opponent is on Wifi and around 200 Mbps.
Will our game be smoother if my speed is more closely matched to his, or will it matter?
Also, I am going to stream the game, so that will take up some of my bandwidth too.
Who is the home team? Usually the connection is based on whomever is the home team. But it can vary.
How do you know this? SDS never ever releases any information on their networking infrastructure, to frustration of many, so I'm curious if you have some additional information or if you're simply parotting an urban legend in the community?
I'm assuming that since you can usually tell by the lag in the pitcher select screen, while not 100% confirmed, who the home team will be. And I'm assuming that if the SDS servers are Peer to Peer that would mean whomever is hosting the game it would be based off their connection.
Anytime I've played online, small sample size as I just started playing only a month or so ago, I've noticed that when I'm the Away team the game is laggy even though I'm running 1GB internet and am connected via an Ethernet cable.
When I'm the Home team, the game runs smoother that it does when I'm the Away team.
I'm not 100% positive that is the case. Just speculating.
The game is laggy regardless. This networking code is one of the worst out there. And even though it is P2P, both clients still have to communicate to the SDS servers which adds another factor into the equation which is the client's distance to that server. Nobody knows where those servers are located though, but it makes sense to speculate that they are on the West Coast and on the East Coast. Doubt they are somewhere in the middle of the continent, because like you I run a 1GB wired fiber connection in Texas and the connection is generally bad. Home or away.
I'd be willing to bet they are running on AWS servers so they are scattered around the world.
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@Blind_Bleeder said in WiFi vs Wired and Oppoenents Question:
@raesONE-_PSN said in WiFi vs Wired and Oppoenents Question:
@MrMcGibblets_MLBTS said in WiFi vs Wired and Oppoenents Question:
@raesONE-_PSN said in WiFi vs Wired and Oppoenents Question:
@MrMcGibblets_MLBTS said in WiFi vs Wired and Oppoenents Question:
@Blind_Bleeder said in WiFi vs Wired and Oppoenents Question:
Okay - I know being wired is always preferred.
My wired connection is a little over 800 Mbps, and my WiFi connection is a little over 250 Mbps.
I am going to play a league game tomorrow where my opponent is on Wifi and around 200 Mbps.
Will our game be smoother if my speed is more closely matched to his, or will it matter?
Also, I am going to stream the game, so that will take up some of my bandwidth too.
Who is the home team? Usually the connection is based on whomever is the home team. But it can vary.
How do you know this? SDS never ever releases any information on their networking infrastructure, to frustration of many, so I'm curious if you have some additional information or if you're simply parotting an urban legend in the community?
I'm assuming that since you can usually tell by the lag in the pitcher select screen, while not 100% confirmed, who the home team will be. And I'm assuming that if the SDS servers are Peer to Peer that would mean whomever is hosting the game it would be based off their connection.
Anytime I've played online, small sample size as I just started playing only a month or so ago, I've noticed that when I'm the Away team the game is laggy even though I'm running 1GB internet and am connected via an Ethernet cable.
When I'm the Home team, the game runs smoother that it does when I'm the Away team.
I'm not 100% positive that is the case. Just speculating.
The game is laggy regardless. This networking code is one of the worst out there. And even though it is P2P, both clients still have to communicate to the SDS servers which adds another factor into the equation which is the client's distance to that server. Nobody knows where those servers are located though, but it makes sense to speculate that they are on the West Coast and on the East Coast. Doubt they are somewhere in the middle of the continent, because like you I run a 1GB wired fiber connection in Texas and the connection is generally bad. Home or away.
I'd be willing to bet they are running on AWS servers so they are scattered around the world.
Well, people have been asking for years and SDS never provides any sort of information on the matter. So all we can do is guess.
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