Packet loss really, and the latency and jitter said loss can contribute to.
Radio waves go faster (speed of light) than through a medium (copper). Not that it matters at such a small scale, but it’s helpful to have a good picture of the elements at work here. The further you are from the receiving point, the more obstacles (matter) that can obstruct it. But in ideal conditions WiFi is better than most people think. Replicating those ideal conditions though…
ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What crap are you doing that so intensive WiFi causes latency? It’s essentially a negligible difference unless you are saturating the signal. We’re taking less than 3ms for a reliable round trip.
kungen@feddit.nu 1 year ago
There are lots of factors that can cause jitter on WiFi, and it’s mostly outside of your control if you’re living somewhere more densely populated. My apartment randomly gets a lot of noise, and as a result my WiFi starts to get unacceptable amounts of packet loss and jitter. It doesn’t happen often enough to motivate the effort for me to go around signal analyzing, but still…
willis936@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wi-Fi has constant retransmissions. This adds perceptible latency.
ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Few Ms. It’s absolutely unperceptive.
NPC@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I often will be downloading a film, streaming youtube or music and be playing video games. Latency matters to me and WiFi is just not stable enough
ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Something is wrong. None of this is perceptible to humans.
If you don’t want to figure it out, cool. But it ain’t the protocol causing your issues.
NPC@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m pretty sure it’s wifi from the neighbours interfering. I can’t be bothered to deal with that, not when I have a cable laying around. Plus, no matter what, a cable will always be more stable than wifi
PixxlMan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
uis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Can you not contradict yourself?
NPC@lemmy.world 1 year ago
and playing video games. No offense, but did you read the whole comment? I need good latency for my games and I need it while downloading a bunch of other stuff. Idk if you’ve ever tried downloading a few torrents while gaming, but it’ll definitely have an impact. Especially if you’re on WiFi.