In reply to a post by C13LKE:

anyone know about the router question I asked?

Are you asking if going from a WiFi 5 (ac) to WiFi 6 (ax) wireless router will make a difference to your ping in gaming?

What causes ping to go up is when your "bandwidth" (capacity) is used up by multiple people downloading, streaming, updating games etc, at the same time. You can have a slow connection of 10 Mbps and have a very low ping.

Going from WiFi 5 (ac) to WiFi 6 (ax) increases capacity, but won't help the ping if your network is not maxed out.

Using an ethernet connection would be best and a LOT cheaper. WiFi 6 is expensive at the moment

(I am using an ASUS RT-AX88U which is a WiFi 6 router on my Virgin cable connection. and I see no difference to my older RT-AC88U apart from the support of WPA 3).

Edited by jchamier (Sat 04-Apr-20 21:26:33)

ax improves latency over ac regardless of loading. Obviously needs both sides to support ax.

The lower latency is actually a selling point of ax.

Edited by CarlTSpeak (Sun 05-Apr-20 11:28:46)

In reply to a post by CarlTSpeak:

ax improves latency over ac regardless of loading. Obviously needs both sides to support ax. The lower latency is actually a selling point of ax.

Thanks - I need to update my laptop to notice that then! I'm very happy with the WPA3 support so far