wireless router for gaming

[Raf1k1]

Hi,

I'm looking for a wireless router thats good for gaming as I've heard that wireless routers can increase ping times.

Anyone know of any particular routers that are good or even of any brands that are known to be good for online gaming?


Thanks

[MaDef]

I'm looking for a wireless router thats good for gaming as I've heard that wireless routers can increase ping times.That sounds right, putting another router into the path to a distant server would actually increase ping times, since it's another stop in the route to the server, it doesn't much matter if it's wireless or not.

I don't know if I would host an online game via a wireless connection (since you're limited how much info you can push through it at one time) a wireless G connection should be more than adequate to play online games. Netgear, D-link, and Linksys are the three brands I'm familiar with, and of the 3 I prefer Linksys, not beacause it's any better than the others, it's a personal preference, I've used the brand for years, and have had very few problems.

[z1p]

From pain and suffering, I have decided you really get what you pay for in the area of wireless routers and will most likely go with a simple wired router and a wireless access point when I need to replace the equipment I have.

If you thing about it, a lot of wired routers and wireless routers use the same hardware as a base, except the wireless router obviously has the hardware to it. My point is that with a similar cpu and memory, a wireless router has to do a bit more processing, than its wired 'cousin'.

I have gone through:
a 'cheap' netgear 'b' router, which rolled over and died almost right away when I enabled the wireless feature. I ran for months with no problems with wireless disabled.

a DI-524, which kept rebooting itself. I was eventually told by Dlink that that was expected behaviour. If the router encounters a problem with a wireless connection, it will reboot itself to try to fix it. Ouch. (Note: I have since flashed it as a DI-624 and it is better)

a linksys wrt54g v6, which would freeze if I attempted to change its SID. If I ran with the default SID it ran pretty solid, but I decided that that wasn't acceptable when I found our laptop accedently connected to the neighbors linksys. I have since flashed it to the DDRT firmware. But, since this is a version 6 router and linksys has reduced the memory in it, I had to use the micro version of DDR. It works fine, though I find that I lose connection more than with the stock firmware.

So now I run with dlink and the linksys, one on each floor. Basically I am using the linksys as a WAP and my wireless has been rock solid.