[SOLVED] What to buy?

[qba1500]

Hi,

I' m running a vr arcade. We are currently moving to new place, and i have some net issues.

We have 1 gb connection, on which there are currently 8 pc's running. We plan to add 10 gaming laptopa in near future.
The wifi cards are mostly 300 mb/2.4 ghz.

On the stock modem i get around 5 to 10 mbs speed.

Should i bother to connect them all to Lan? Or get good router? Wifi would save me a lot of trouble and for the laptops later on it would be a big problem too.
We have no walls, the furthest the pc from modem is is 25 meters.

What dp you suggest?

Thanks

 

[bill001g]

If you have the option just buy a 24 port switch and hook everything to it via ethernet. It maybe work to get installed at the start but it tends to never cause issues once it is up and running.

Wifi is always subject to interference and games are affected much more than other forms of traffic. The other problem with wifi is there is no central control, all the end station independently decide when to tranmit. They try to avoid each other but the more device you add the more change you take the 2 device talk at the same time and damage each others data. For web surfing you will net even see these delays but in games you will see lag spikes when this happens.

 

[qba1500]

Guess ill do that. Any suggestions for the switch choise?

As for the planned laptops, are there any solutions with enlargable cables?
They arent going to be installed permanently. Ao maybe i could pull them from the ceiling when needed?

 

[bill001g]

If you could hide extra cable in the ceiling just buy extra long ones and zip tie the extra and hide it. There is no penalty for have a cable that is longer. You can go to 100meters so you don't really have to worry about buying cables that are too long.

Be very sure to buy pure copper cables with wire size 22-24. There is massive amounts of fake cable being sold and it does not work well especially at longer distances. Avoid and CCA cable and any of the flat or thin cable.

Which switch is hard to say some simple unmanged switch will be fine. Both netgear and tplink have models that have 24 gigabit ports for about $75-$80. This boxes are pretty simplistic so any brand should be ok. You want to avoid some of unknown brands shipped directly from china, they likely work but if it fails getting it replaced under warranty tends to be a real challenge from those companies.

 

[qba1500]

Will 12 port switch in one room, and other 12 in the second one work either?