• Aux@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    WiFi 5 latency is only two times higher than cooper (0.3ms vs 0.6ms). WiFi 6 has the same or even lower latency. WiFi 7 is even better. If latency is your game, copper is a poor choice. Unless you have spare money for an industrial 100Gbps set up. Which you don’t.

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      9 months ago

      Please speak standards, not marketing language. Replace WiFi and number with 802.11 and letters in the end.

      If latency is your game, copper is a poor choice

      One packet drop for TCP creates huge latency for application level protocol. And not many games use UDP for their transport.

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        9 months ago

        not many games use UDP for their transport

        Citation Needed

        I have never heard of a latency-sensitive game that doesn’t use UDP for inner loop communication. Sure they use TCP for login and server browser, but the actual communication for gameplay almost always uses UDP.