dont know enough about wireless cards and routers

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colesimp

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I am looking into getting a new pc and the one I am interseted in has a 1501 half mini wireless card top speed is 54mbps. Will that be fast enough to handle online games running in either ultra or preformace mode? I'm pretty sure the graphic card can handle it and I have fios for internet. I can't find anything that tells how fast your wireless card and router need to be. Ive been playing City of Hereos on a friends pc and it runs on ultra settings with no lag
 
yeah unless your internet speed is faster than 54Mbps you wont notice a difference... unelss your getting a bad signal.
 
It seems this is a laptop correct? Most laptops have integrated video and won't do decent gaming unless the game isn't that demanding.
 
Quiltface said:
yeah unless your internet speed is faster than 54Mbps you wont notice a difference... unelss your getting a bad signal.
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When it comes to gaming and lag, its not just the sheer speed of your connection that is important, its also the Latency.

Often times, using wireless will increase the latency and that is what causes online LAG. If your gonna game online at high settings. Might was well go Wired.

BUT, I have gamed on wireless. But it was wireless N. Not G.

If you have a choice in a new PC. I would go with Dual band N and a router that can support it.
 
You do know there is no relation what so ever between gaming lag en setting the graphics level of your game right? It's not like the game is sending a screen capture to the other players.

So you have 2 issues. The first is the graphical performance of the game which is depending on your machines power. Which you should ask in a different subforum.

The second is the networking speed which might cause lag. You don't need a uberspeed internet connection from your isp. 10mbit would be more than sufficient probably. Depends on the game. Getting wireless would be simply put "a bad idea". Like Iceyn1pples said the quality or response from your connection is way more important. Wireless connections tend to have lots of overhead. Loads of packets just get lost between your network card and wireless router/accesspoint. Which increases the ping/lag/latency/whatever enormously.
To make a long story short, no matter how fast your wireless is it's always going to be much worse then wired.
 
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