sebastianhadas :
bill001g :
It would likely be almost the same. In one case your computer wifi connects between your room and the remote location. In the other the router wifi connects between your room and the remote location. The distance the wifi signal goes is pretty much the same. Don't get confused by marketing calling the router "gaming" there really is no such thing.
The problem is the wifi connection between the rooms not the equipment you connect with. Both are subject to random interference from many sources. Just walking through a room changes the way the radio waves travel. Way too many variables to even think to predict if one is better than the other.
The largest source of problems lately is all the neighbors around using wifi. There traffic will causes errors which the wifi will takes time to correct causing variations in the latency.
The solution most people concerned with game performance use to solve this are powerline network devices. They tend to have more stable latency than wifi.
This makes a lot more sense, the reason I want a gaming router is so I could acces geo location to lower latency, as well as anti buffer. However, could I use power lines to ultimately reduce latency? Or would it be over the top to get powelines and a gaming router?
The powerline makes the latency consistent it does not lower it. The problem with wifi is not high latency it is that it gets random high spikes of latency.
You are believing half truths on gaming routers. It is all marketing for the uneducated.
You can't fix the latency. Your router has no control over the path the data take between your house and the game company. You can not actually fix your "geo location". The only case it might be true is if your ISP has poor connectivity to the rest of the world. Mostly in some asian countries some ISP do not use the most optimum undersea fibers. In those cases you can use a form of VPN to fix it. This is nothing special on a "gaming router" it is the VPN company that you are buying the service from. Any router that has VPN can do it. BUT in most cases running vpn will make the connection slower. The marketing guys at the router company are being deceptive when they know very well most people can not use this feature. Only a very very small group can use this solution and it involves paying a extra fee to a vpn company.
The so called "anti buffer" feature is in many routers in their QoS setting. Again this only has impact on a small number of users. It only helps if someone is doing massive downloads on your connection. If you are not using all your bandwidth the function does nothing.
The marketing guys like to put the word "gaming" on all kinds of equipment like they used to put "turbo" on things. It mean nothing in most cases and gets those who are too lazy to read and learn details to buy a product that is more expensive than another product that does the same thing without the fancy words on the box.
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