Wii/360/PS3 Question

[Mezmoron]

Oh, and my entire freaking house is CAT5 wired EXCEPT the room that we have all the gaming things.

Ken

[captain_nintendo]

Hahahaha  And when are you coming to PA to do this for me?

Ken

I am too big to be crawling around in any attic. I had one of my smaller friends do this for me when I was running wire for my sound system  

[Tynstar]

Oh, and my entire freaking house is CAT5 wired EXCEPT the room that we have all the gaming things.

Ken

[yap]

Your wireless router doesnt have wired ports?

I have a wirless router that I keep next to all my systems so I can plug them in. The more I use wireless in my house the more I wish I had my house wired for a network.

Nope.  My wireless routers all just have a USB port to hook a printer up to, and an audio port to hook radio up to.

But I'm moving into a new house at the end of May, I'm thinking about running 2 ethernet jacks and coax cable to every room in the house.

The only thing I like about wireless is how easy it all is.  I can just roam around with my laptop or whatever and not have to worry about a hub and a mess of cables.

At least if I wire all the rooms in the house to ethernet, the hub and mess of cables can be tucked away in the basement.  More secure too.

[Tynstar]

Nope.  My wireless routers all just have a USB port to hook a printer up to, and an audio port to hook radio up to.

Why not buy a new router with wired ports as well? They are a lot cheaper then the wireless unit for the 360.

[yap]

Yeah that might have made sense, I didn't think of that at the time.

[Hydrobond]

doesn't a wireless signal travel slower? Wouldnt you get more lag while playing?

In theory, the wireless signal is travelling in a straight line to the router, where as the wire would bend, making wireless slightly faster.  

I believe the 802.11x standards are slower than ethernet because of all the extra data they have to carry in each packet sent (identification information and the like).  

As far as ping goes, wireless and wired should be similar.  Throughput is a different story, though the 802.11n standard will be faster than 100Mbps ethernet.  Gigabit ethernet will blow the n standard out of the water though.