jaxclayton OP t1_jc4ed26 wrote on March 13, 2023 at 11:21 PM

Reply to comment by nah-meh-stay in Can I hook modem up to a coax splice I found behind a blank plate? by jaxclayton

Thanks it will be huge if I can move my modem to this room without running any cables

[deleted] t1_jc6e67z wrote on March 14, 2023 at 11:36 AM

Why would you be getting a huge benefit from hardwiring your cable modem versus a modern Wi-Fi setup?

Do you have like a really old Wi-Fi modem or router?

I can get my full cable modem bandwidth right to my iPhone through Wi-Fi so and you know like my desktop doesn't go any faster than that hardwired.

Might be a tiny tiny difference in pain but by far the pain between me and like a game server is determined by my internet provider and the physical distance between me and the game server.

Modern Wi-Fi is pretty fast! Days it's like streaming 4k on everyone's television so it's not the Wi-Fi of years ago.

I'm just using a Google mesh router which really isn't a super powerful setup because it doesn't have the greatest signal, but I have a spread out how so I had to do something meshy.

jaxclayton OP t1_jc6pnoi wrote on March 14, 2023 at 1:23 PM

Same I had to do a mesh as well. My WiFi won’t even reach my office in the basement. My house is a raised ranch with an addition. Basically shake like and L on a hill. The modem is on one point of the L, first floor. My office (with pc), is basement on the the opposite point of the L. The eero mesh was the only way I can get WiFi to the basement. But by the time it reaches my computer the speeds are slower. Running a CMD ping test to google I was getting 90ms with spikes to 200ms. Playing games (which me and my son do) we get timed out and disconnected non stop. And games like Rust that’s really bad to have happen.