Crux

We are moving into a new house in a couple of weeks. The cable outlet spot is less than idea for my purposes, and my wife won't be too happy about my running Cat5 over doorways taped to the wall Hardwood floors so no carpet to run it under. The obvious solution is to go wireless. I already have a wireless router which works just fine. But is anyone actually gaming on a wireless connection? If so, I'd love some impressions!

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Lorax74

I was using a wireless router for a while, out of necessity, and didn't have too much of an issue with it. The one thing I do have to complain about was the random drops and reconnects I would have between my wireless card and router (both DLink). The router and rig were less than 60 feet apart and on the same plane (didn't have to go through floors, duct work, etc). The disconnects weren't frequent, but when you're having a great round even once is too much.

If your interested in making an upgrade to the house, you can get hollow baseboards with built in wire raceways to help hide the cables. My family room has no place for me to run wires other than next to the wall, once we rip up the carpet in a few months, I plan on replacing three quarters of the baseboard with this molding. Not overly cheap, but at least I won't have the miscellaneous A/V and cat5 laying around anymore...

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VladTheImpaler

D-Link's GameFuel router works very well for me over a wireless connection. A bit pricey but it fixed a lot of issues I was having with an old WRTG54G running DD-WRT firmware.

-Vladd

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Superfast

You may also wanna check out Homeplug/Powerline solutions. These are getting quite good as a substitute for CAT5/Wireless i've read.

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Anospa

I've been running a Linksys cheapo something-or other (free from Verizon) router for probably 6 years straight and no problems really. It has ocassionally dropped a signal, but I'm straight into the router so don't notice, but the rest of the family rarely has issues.

I'd probably look into running cable/making a new outlet; really isn't quite hard and looks fine when you finish.

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jonan_

I was playing on wireless for about 8 months until my wireless card went bad. I never had any problems.

HybridNinja

My wireless is great.

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sc1ence

just drill a hole in the floor and run the wire down under the floor. if you do it right next to the baseboard no one will notice.

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Guardianx11x

I used to play BF2 wireless for some time. Random drops were annoying, but overall it wasnt too bad. Although, depending on your situation and where the cable backbone is brought in...I'd run it behind the drywall. Little more costly and labor intensive, but looks much nicer and you'll be happier with it in the end.

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Lorax74

That's assuming you have an unfinished basement to go down to. Crown molding is another way of hiding wires. Run them up a wall (behind the sheet rock if possible, out the top and behind the crown molding. II would go that route, but my ceilings are 7.5 feet high (lower than average)...

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Crux

Part of the problem is it is a rental house that is both historic, and worth a lot of money. There's limits to what I can do to it 'improvement'-wise.

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Anospa

Ahh, that's kinda a big problem then. Wireless will probably be best route to go then, just make sure you have dependable hardware and such.

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Tsuoz250rdrK

I play wireless. No big issues except the occasional drop.

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Hidus

I'm on wireless as well. Despite the fact that the reception is nowhere near as good as it should be (20 feet away through a couple interior walls and I get 2 bars) it's not that bad.

machowner

I played using a hotel wireles connection on my trip a few months ago. I had no problems at all. I don't know what brand they were using but it fast did not add any lag really.