topic Re: Gaming on 4G, ping performance on 5GEE WIFI vs 5GEE/4GEE Home Router? in Gaming

Gaming on 4G, ping performance on 5GEE WIFI vs 5GEE/4GEE Home Router?

safooski — Mon, 16 May 2022 10:53:59 GMT

I recently picked up the 5GEE WIFI for my home, download speeds are insane on 4g and expected the same for ping, however, the ping is very much all over the place, jittering between 50 and 150 all the time. Especially bad if my partner is streaming something in addition to gaming

So I am wondering, if I picked up one of the bigger, less portable home routers, is that likely to improve ping performance or is this very much a EE server/signal related issue that is outside of personal hardware performance?

Thanks

Re: Gaming on 4G, ping performance on 5GEE WIFI vs 5GEE/4GEE Home Router?

XRaySpeX — Mon, 16 May 2022 11:11:47 GMT

Latency is not the property of any router but of your routing over the Net.

Re: Gaming on 4G, ping performance on 5GEE WIFI vs 5GEE/4GEE Home Router?

safooski — Mon, 16 May 2022 11:18:04 GMT

So to put this in simple terms, a different router wont improve performance ping, correct?

What about in the case of dealing with multiple users at once, for example video streaming + gaming, will a larger router be able to cope with multiple requests without dropping speeds?

Thanks

Re: Gaming on 4G, ping performance on 5GEE WIFI vs 5GEE/4GEE Home Router?

EssexBoyEE — Mon, 16 May 2022 11:41:30 GMT

I would love to say the bigger the better, and Technically the answer is yes but in practice there are just too many variable's on on 4G/5G Mobile Networks and Mobile Devices, Coverage, Signal Quality of the Cell Mast, Signal Strength to the Device, Type of Data Connection, Router Positioning, Network Congestion, Time of Day, etc, the list goes on and on, so there is never going to be any guarantees.

What I will say is that a 4/5G Home Router over its smaller MiFi Device is going to have a better opportunity to deal with the Mobile Data Signals Trickery, its probably going to be higher specked to start with, the internal Antennas will be bigger and a better design over its smaller counterpart, its CPU Processer will run cooler and it will probably provide a better Indoor WiFi Coverage and have better Ethernet Cable options, so it does really start to tick all the right boxes.

One thing to consider between to two would be overall consistency and stability and the Home Router should provide this over a smaller Battery Device.

Re: Gaming on 4G, ping performance on 5GEE WIFI vs 5GEE/4GEE Home Router?

safooski — Mon, 16 May 2022 11:49:17 GMT

Thanks very much mate that's solid info and advice

Re: Gaming on 4G, ping performance on 5GEE WIFI vs 5GEE/4GEE Home Router?

AndreaBu89 — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 16:45:17 GMT

No worries I have the same issue. 5g is amazing for streaming and downloading but EE 5g ping is rubbish. 4g ping is around 30ms but download speed is crap. I usually switch between them depending on what I need to do