For Wifi assume good (not ideal) signal and for Ethernet typical 1gbps 15m cable

  • slazer2au@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Ethernet wins. Hands down, no contest. Speed of an electron along a copper medium may be slower then RF through free space, but there are so many more sources of interference with free space.

    For 99.99% of applications the latency between good wifi and ethernet is non noticeable.

    • ProtonBadger@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, the echo reply from my WiFi router comes in <1ms, the round trip to the game server in Seattle is minimum 100ms. So Eth vs WiFi at home is not so important if the WiFi is stable and the use-case is supported. My current router is 100% stable and maintains same low latency (no spikes), my old dropped connections sometimes and fluctuated.