Understanding my current network and judging its ability to use Steam Link

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Ok, I’m desperately trying to understand whether my current setup is allright for optimal Steam Link fun. I’ve got this setup (pretty drawing enclosed here)

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The dark lines are current, the red is what I need to do.

But: This setup gives me the following average ms-speed to the router:

Minimum = 1ms, Maximum = 23ms, Average = 3ms

Is that not more than enough to hook it up to a Steam Link? Or am I missing something? Whenever I go through the normal wireless connection, it has got an average of 10 ms or something.

So - is this decent enough for what I want or do I need to put a cable between my router and splitter?

Thanks again :)

Any good ways to test our LAN-speeds? I've tried that classic app called LAN_SpeedTest but it simply refuses to ping my router.
 
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By "splitter" do you mean network switch?

Wireless is not very good for gaming -- you should connect an LAN port from the router to either the switch or "extender" if the extender can be used in an AP mode. Bottom line, you want a cable from the modem to the computer used to game and to the STEAM Link.

You can test latency inside your network by simply pinging a device (like your router) by using the command prompt and typing: ping -t xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (entering the network address of the device). It will run a series of constant pings until you hit ctrl-c to quit. Wired latency should always be around 1ms or less and not fluctuate.
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By "splitter" do you mean network switch?

Wireless is not very good for gaming -- you should connect an LAN port from the router to either the switch or "extender" if the extender can be used in an AP mode. Bottom line, you want a cable from the modem to the computer used to game and to the STEAM Link.

You can test latency inside your network by simply pinging a device (like your router) by using the command prompt and typing: ping -t xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (entering the network address of the device). It will run a series of constant pings until you hit ctrl-c to quit. Wired latency should always be around 1ms or less and not fluctuate.
 
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It likely will make little difference. If you can get a strong connection to the router via wireless from the steamlink box it should work just as well as if you connected it via the wireless extender. Since it is simpler to go directly to the router than to have another device in between I would op for that route. Wireless extenders have strange problems from time to time.

The MS you get is not what most people call speed. It is purely the delay caused by the wireless connection.

I am not sure how lan speedtest works but in general you would need a pc connected directly to the router. You would then run speed tests between that device and your test device. A router is pretty simplistic it does not really have the ability to transfer files which is what a speedtest is doing.
 
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