What are the cons of using cable for gaming pc?

[elleezinho]

So I was a console player back then with using wifi but now I'm a pc gamer , and lots of people suggest me to use an ethernet cable for gaming. So If I use an ethernet cable, would my family's phone connections and my brother's gaming pc connection would be lower and slower? If its true, then I should just not use a cable connection then, because I dont want to disrespect them by having all the high connections only for me.

 

[R_1]

in a wireless signal the data has to be converted to radio waves, transmitted to target and re-encoded back into data, this process takes time, time that a wired connection does not experience.
wired is faster than wireless but using wired should not decay the wireless performance. it will be slow because its wireless not because your on the wire.
a wired connection will have a lower ping, lower ping means better gaming
go wired if you can

 

[bigpinkdragon286]

Having one fewer wireless device trying to get attention from your router may actually improve the performance for other users during peak times. Wireless radios can only handle so many transactions at one time so, the fewer connected devices, the better each wireless device can be serviced, up to of course the working limits of each device.

Games need only so much bandwidth. Obviously that's being met by your wireless connection or it wouldn't be working for you, so whether you use a wire or not, that's not going to increase demand on your internet. What will happen, however, is your connection will get better from using the wire. There will be less overhead to your data transfers and it's possible you'll see a slight reduction in ping times and your ping times may be more stable.

 

[elleezinho]

So would it affect my family's wifi connection?

 

[bigpinkdragon286]

Yes. I already answered that question. Their connection will improve slightly if you stop using WiFi, as that will be one less thing for your WiFi access point to need to deal with.

 

[bigpinkdragon286]

Whether or not you use a cable will not change the amount of bandwidth your current internet activities consume. If you don't change the way you use the internet, but only change from using WiFi to using an Ethernet cable, things will improve, even if it's an imperceptibly small amount.