Good Connection for Gaming?

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Arsenal221

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Hello, I am trying to increase the overall performance of my PC for gaming, and I know that one possible way would be to improve my network connection. I want to switch to a wired connection, but do not want to move my router directly next to my computer for connectivity. I have a TP-Link Wi-Fi range extender with an Ethernet port, would that work? Thanks.
 
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It will likely buy you nothing. If you have a crappy wifi connection the new extender will get a crappy signal and put in on the ethernet. It is just a wifi nic connected via ethernet rather than say USB.

Your best bet if you can not run actual ethernet cables is to buy powerline network devices.

Still it depends what you issue is. Games do not need speed they use very little bandwidth. What they need is quality signal which WiFi tends to have issues because of interference. If you do not see lag or packet loss in games then there really is no need to replace anything. WiFi is not recommended for games but it does work well in situations where you are not getting interference.
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bill001g

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It will likely buy you nothing. If you have a crappy wifi connection the new extender will get a crappy signal and put in on the ethernet. It is just a wifi nic connected via ethernet rather than say USB.

Your best bet if you can not run actual ethernet cables is to buy powerline network devices.

Still it depends what you issue is. Games do not need speed they use very little bandwidth. What they need is quality signal which WiFi tends to have issues because of interference. If you do not see lag or packet loss in games then there really is no need to replace anything. WiFi is not recommended for games but it does work well in situations where you are not getting interference.
 
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