Comment on But my WiFi is just fine!

• kungen@feddit.nu ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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…

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• willis936@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wi-Fi has constant retransmissions. This adds perceptible latency.

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  • ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Few Ms. It’s absolutely unperceptive.

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• NPC@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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  • ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • NPC@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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    • PixxlMan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Wi-Fi adds like 4ms. It’s not high latency.

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  • uis@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    downloading a film,

    Latency matters to me

    Can you not contradict yourself?

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    • NPC@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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      • uis@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I did. Just pointing out uselessness of mentioning big downloads in context of latency. Just don’t bring bad arguments.

        downloading a few torrents while gaming, but it’ll definitely have an impact. Especially if you’re on WiFi.

        Yes, but also setting up network priority(QoS), limiting torrent transfer speed and other stuff.

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