Gaming and Wireless

In local wireless networks, or using the internet for gaming from a wireless router what type of pings do you get?

I want to know if a wireless router setup will give me slower latency in gaming than my current 100Mbit cat5e connection.
cheers

so for example what's a good ping on a wireless ADSL router set up?

eg on my 10/100 on counterstrike servers i could get pings of between 20-40 ms and similar numbers on UT2k3.

Xbox live ran pretty well too.

but in my new house I might need to go wireless

A ping of 22-42 is Godly. <b>Any</b> sub-100 ping is pretty much transparent to a typical gamer. Maybe, for example, if you are a <font color=red>cat</font color=red> you have a response time of 0.02 seconds, but the rest of us humans can't really notice.

Also, you would have to have really miserable reception to get sufficient packet drop to cause a lag spike. Unless he's going to try to run his signal through a 3' thick concrete wall he will probably see no change in ping.

We went from a wired network to a wireless in our house. I play a lot of CS and there was no perceptible change in network performance. This is through a couple of regular walls and a floor as well.

Just make sure you don't have any wireless phones or anything on the same frequency and the wireless will probably be fine.

<b>1.4 Ghz AMD T-Bird underclocked to 1 Ghz...just to be safe!</b><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by BunnyStroker on 09/23/03 03:32 PM.</EM></FONT></P>