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Aux@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

WiFi 5 latency is only two times higher than cooper (0.3ms vs 0.6ms). WiFi 6 has the same or even lower latency. WiFi 7 is even better. If latency is your game, copper is a poor choice. Unless you have spare money for an industrial 100Gbps set up. Which you don’t.

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uis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Please speak standards, not marketing language. Replace WiFi and number with 802.11 and letters in the end.

If latency is your game, copper is a poor choice

One packet drop for TCP creates huge latency for application level protocol. And not many games use UDP for their transport.

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- MooseBoys@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  not many games use UDP for their transport
  
  Citation Needed
  
  I have never heard of a latency-sensitive game that doesn’t use UDP for inner loop communication. Sure they use TCP for login and server browser, but the actual communication for gameplay almost always uses UDP.
  
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  - uis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Let’s see… Terraria, Factorio, Minecraft.
    
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    MooseBoys@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Minecraft and Terraria use both TCP and UDP, presumably in the way I described (TCP for initial connection, asset download, etc. and UDP for world state sync). Factorio uses UDP exclusively, and implements reliable transport where needed in software.
    
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