Originally Posted by
kalniel
Ooh there's an idea. Thanks. I quite like the killer wifi mini cards but didn't think I'd be able to use them.
I've just been playing with optimising TCP and the ping is now quite close to my old card, so I wonder if I had also optimised that in the very distant past and there's actually no significant difference.
I have an asus PCE AC68, which is awesome. sustained 900mbs transfer speeds to the matching AC66U router. Ping looks like:
Gaming PC to Router
Code:
Pinging 192.168.1.1 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Ping statistics for 192.168.1.1:
Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 1ms, Average = 0ms
Microserver to router
Code:
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.268 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.286 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.299 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.295 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.311 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=0.293 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=0.305 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=0.311 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=64 time=0.321 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=10 ttl=64 time=0.301 ms
--- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 8998ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.268/0.299/0.321/0.014 ms
WIFI to 8.8.8.8
Code:
Pinging 8.8.8.8 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=55
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=55
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=55
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=55
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=55
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=55
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=55
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=55
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=55
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=55
Ping statistics for 8.8.8.8:
Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 15ms, Maximum = 19ms, Average = 16ms
Microserver to 8.8.8.8
Code:
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=16.2 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=15.3 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=55 time=15.7 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=4 ttl=55 time=18.8 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=5 ttl=55 time=15.6 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=6 ttl=55 time=17.8 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=7 ttl=55 time=15.7 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=8 ttl=55 time=20.1 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=9 ttl=55 time=16.0 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=10 ttl=55 time=15.2 ms
--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 9011ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 15.255/16.682/20.128/1.595 ms
So essentially the same speed, however I suspect it might depend as much on the quality of the router as the network card. Did you see the same problem across multiple devices?