wireless good for gaming?

[FiL]

As most of you know your ping is an important part of your stats in Networked gaming.

I was wondering what the pings achieved with computers are in games when using a 802.11b wireless Ethernet?

examples of what i get are in CounterStrike

100Mbit LAN : 5 ms
512kbit cable modem: 30ms
56k Modem : 180ms!

So i'd be interested to see what a 802.11b wireless Ethernet ping is, or even what a shared broadband connection over 802.11b wireless Ethernet pings like

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[dukeofcrydee]

Well I have no ping values to give you, just an educated-guess type answer.

If you're worried about gaming over WiFi, don't be. Even if the signal drops from 11Mbps to a "paltry" 1Mbps, you're still banging out near T1 speeds. And considering how multiplayer gaming code is written to let lowly 56Kbps modems play, you're good to go.

But that all depends on the signal being there. With WiFi, you do run the risk of a glitchy AP losing the signal or mom (wife, whatever..) turning on the Microwave & talking on the 2.4GHz cordless close by