Question Differing Game Latency on two gaming pcs

[Cairparaveil]

Hi All,

So I've just moved into an apartment with my partner, we currently have our rigs set up in the living room about 5 steps away from our router. We both like to play online games but for some reason, even though my PC is 1 step away from hers, my lag/latency is much higher than hers to the point it makes games somewhat unplayable. I have the newer PC and my wireless adapter is newer (she has TP-Link Archer T2U and I have Archer T3U). I swapped our adapters to see if that was causing the problem but no, my games were still laggy. Our download speed is 1gb so I don't think the speed is the issue and there's no data cap. We haven't touched any settings on the router either.

Any ideas what might be causing it?

Kind Regards,

 

[kanewolf]

Hi All,

So I've just moved into an apartment with my partner, we currently have our rigs set up in the living room about 5 steps away from our router. We both like to play online games but for some reason, even though my PC is 1 step away from hers, my lag/latency is much higher than hers to the point it makes games somewhat unplayable. I have the newer PC and my wireless adapter is newer (she has TP-Link Archer T2U and I have Archer T3U). I swapped our adapters to see if that was causing the problem but no, my games were still laggy. Our download speed is 1gb so I don't think the speed is the issue and there's no data cap. We haven't touched any settings on the router either.

Any ideas what might be causing it?

Kind Regards,

The two PCs competing for the same WIFI would be a possible explanation. Run ethernet cable across the floor from the primary router to the two PCs. See if the problem still happens. Until you test with a wired connection on BOTH PCs you are just chasing ghosts.

 

[Cairparaveil]

The two PCs competing for the same WIFI would be a possible explanation. Run ethernet cable across the floor from the primary router to the two PCs. See if the problem still happens. Until you test with a wired connection on BOTH PCs you are just chasing ghosts.

Hi,

Both pcs at the same time or one at a time?

 

[Cairparaveil]

Also, I am still getting latency even when her PC isn't on so I don't think that's inherently the issue.

 

[lantis3]

Your hardware vs hers? What's game server's IP? Can you ping it? Show what's difference between two machines? Do you have anything running in the background?

As suggested, use wired ethernet to rule out wifi problem first.

 

[Cairparaveil]

The two PCs competing for the same WIFI would be a possible explanation. Run ethernet cable across the floor from the primary router to the two PCs. See if the problem still happens. Until you test with a wired connection on BOTH PCs you are just chasing ghosts.

Ran a wired connection to my PC. Latency wasn't an issue nor for me or her.

 

[kanewolf]

Ran a wired connection to my PC. Latency wasn't an issue nor for me or her.

The words "apartment, WIFI, low latency" don't exist together. Every apartment's WIFI competes with yours. It is like trying to talk at a rock concert.