Unlimited Wireless 5G, What is it like for gaming?

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Faffin

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#314925 29-May-2024 22:41

I've just moved to a boarding house in Kingsland, which has a reasonable fibre/wifi setup, but the internet connection keeps dropping for minutes at a time. Hot-spotting with my 4G phone works partly, ping is okay, but it drops me out of games a bit too often. How do you think 5G via a wireless modem would go?

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#3242531 30-May-2024 07:05

Ping wont be great, run an ethernet cable to the router

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#3242533 30-May-2024 07:11

Hi, yeah dont think you will be impressed wtih 5G as a gaming connection, get the fibre wifi issue sorted is a better plan I suggest.

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#3242539 30-May-2024 07:32

Too many factors to give a true answer - Fibre is king

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#3242549 30-May-2024 08:49

Faffin:

I've just moved to a boarding house in Kingsland, which has a reasonable fibre/wifi setup, but the internet connection keeps dropping for minutes at a time. Hot-spotting with my 4G phone works partly, ping is okay, but it drops me out of games a bit too often. How do you think 5G via a wireless modem would go?

If 4G I flaky, 5G is not going to be better.

Get the Wi-Fi sorted. At best try an Ethernet cable to the router. If it's solid then you know to focus on the Wi-Fi fix.

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#3242562 30-May-2024 09:12

nztim: Ping wont be great, run an ethernet cable to the router

Ping is fine as long as the coverage is adequate; we have no other option but LTE for broadband and my son plays twitch games all the time. But you're right about ethernet!

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