Wireless Router Help
By
Hell_Jumper,
Posted on: 2009-12-08 11:22 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
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Essentially, what the "gaming routers" are doing is prioritizing packet traffic for various games and sometimes opening up ports for better access through the firewall. This can, in some instances, reduce latency, and give better gaming experience.|
Originally Posted by Hell_Jumper
Need some help, I play (and have always played) COH/COV on my laptop and wirelessly. I know that is not the best way to run but it has worked for me since I started playing back in 2004.
Last night my Router stopped working and I mean dead dead for no apparent reason. So now I have to purchase a new one and I was wondering is there really much of a difference between a regular Router and gaming ones. I dont want to spend money unneccessarly if I dont have to. At home its just he wifey and I so there is no teenager downloading massive amounts of data, stealing all the bandwidth and causing me to lag like there was when he was home. Any and all advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks PEACE |
If it's just you on the network, and you're pretty much just gaming, I wouldn't go and spend ridiculous amounts of extra money on a specialty router. You simply aren't going to see a difference.
Clicking on the linked image above will take you off the City of Heroes site. However, the guides will be linked back here.
Pretty much anything billing itself as specifically for 'gaming' is a scam to get more money out of you.
The exceptions would be various controllers/input devices (mice, keyboards, etc) and video cards.
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Thanks for the advise.. running off to buy a regulare router
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Is that like a grande router, only smaller?|
Originally Posted by Hell_Jumper
running off to buy a regulare router
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Damn you Starbucks-speak!
Clicking on the linked image above will take you off the City of Heroes site. However, the guides will be linked back here.
Need some help, I play (and have always played) COH/COV on my laptop and wirelessly. I know that is not the best way to run but it has worked for me since I started playing back in 2004.
Last night my Router stopped working and I mean dead dead for no apparent reason. So now I have to purchase a new one and I was wondering is there really much of a difference between a regular Router and gaming ones. I dont want to spend money unneccessarly if I dont have to. At home its just he wifey and I so there is no teenager downloading massive amounts of data, stealing all the bandwidth and causing me to lag like there was when he was home.
Any and all advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
PEACE