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    Question Good Router for low ping.

    Hi, anybody have any experience with routers that are strong for online gaming, and low ping.

    I have a good stable connection with about 18ms atm.

    if i use my speedlink router I get consistantly 2 ms more.

    so, any ones renowned for shaving some ms off?

    currenly using a draytek.

    thanks.

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    Re: Good Router for low ping.

    You really won't get much better than that. I've heard there's even less latency in RL though...

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    Re: Good Router for low ping.

    It's not less ping you need, it's smarter routing. A good QoS enabled router will prioritise gaming traffic first.
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    Re: Good Router for low ping.

    As above, draytek are seriously top end stuff, unless you are spending a couple of hundred pound you really are not going to get better, also when you are getting down to the levels or 18ms or 20ms you really are not gonna notice the difference, your line plays a bigger factor then the router and i dout you can improve on what ping you have.

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    Re: Good Router for low ping.

    Thanks very much anyway.

    I thought QoS was not a good thing?

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    Re: Good Router for low ping.

    Quote Originally Posted by ArCElM View Post
    Thanks very much anyway.

    I thought QoS was not a good thing?
    QoS is an excellent thing
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    Re: Good Router for low ping.

    A while ago I decided to buy a couple of old routers from ebay to see how laggy my Netgear was.

    multiplay.co.uk in pingplotter (low jitter, stable ping)

    Ping - Router
    9ms - Netgear DG834GT
    7ms - Linksys WAG354G (old)
    6ms - 3Com OfficeConnect (really old)

    Sadly I seem to be having some weird issues with the 3com and linksys where 10-20% of dns requests fail, resulting in websites not fully loading. No issues with udp though.

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    Re: Good Router for low ping.

    Yes now here is some good information

    Thanks mate, I was sure that there was differences in ping between routers.

    Might check out 3com

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    Re: Good Router for low ping.

    I don't think the difference you'd see is worth spending more money on - I doubt a different router would make more than 2ms difference and there's more variation that that in a single 3 ping test.

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    Re: Good Router for low ping.

    Good grief, forget about latency. Your biggest problem with be prioritising traffic. By default, all routers operate in a fifo (First In, First Out) fashion. On the surface this seems just dandy. But in reality it's just braindead.
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    Re: Good Router for low ping.

    Quote Originally Posted by sadbuttrue View Post
    A while ago I decided to buy a couple of old routers from ebay to see how laggy my Netgear was.

    multiplay.co.uk in pingplotter (low jitter, stable ping)

    Ping - Router
    9ms - Netgear DG834GT
    7ms - Linksys WAG354G (old)
    6ms - 3Com OfficeConnect (really old)

    Sadly I seem to be having some weird issues with the 3com and linksys where 10-20% of dns requests fail, resulting in websites not fully loading. No issues with udp though.
    I don't trust those results, it's too hard to accurately test this unless you do it locally.

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    Re: Good Router for low ping.

    If you're currently getting 20ms, I don't think you are going to see 6ms if you buy a 3Com router. He is probably closer to whatever he was pinging, than you are to whatever you are pinging.

    Maybe you will see a 3ms improvement though... who knows. It's your money, your risk. There's nothing saying that a brand new router won't be slower than your existing, due to feature bloat or whatnot.



    One thing I would recommend though, before buying new hardware, is try to flash your existing router's firmware to the latest version. You may get some improvements from there.

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    Re: Good Router for low ping.

    It wont make a difference if his latency time is 10ms or 40ms, he wont be able to preceive the difference.
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    Re: Good Router for low ping.

    Quote Originally Posted by aidanjt View Post
    It wont make a difference if his latency time is 10ms or 40ms, he wont be able to preceive the difference.
    You can easily tell the difference in games.

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    Re: Good Router for low ping.

    I haven't benchmarked it at all, but I think the DLINK gigabit gaming router is excellent. I've used it for about 3 years. Not that a router has to be gigabit anyway ---- that's more of a switch's job IMHO, but whatever.

    it has options to prioritize game traffic

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    Re: Good Router for low ping.

    I've repeated the tests above many times and am confident in their accuracy. I think there is some misunderstanding on how little the router affects ping though. The difference between the best and worst is a mere 2-3ms. So if you ping 40ms now, you could get down to an incredibly low 37ms with a better router...

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