WiFi V direct connection

Hi all - any views on the above, I am Wifi connected and sometimes feel its a dissadvantage, I feel I out react and start shooting peeps first and even give them a good few rounds before them but get out gunned (although at overall 9% accuracy could be I am just a crap shot).

As anyone changed to direct and noticed a differance

PDTWN wrote:

Hi all - any views on the above, I am Wifi connected and sometimes feel its a dissadvantage, I feel I out react and start shooting peeps first and even give them a good few rounds before them but get out gunned (although at overall 9% accuracy could be I am just a crap shot).

As anyone changed to direct and noticed a differance

Yes i have i ran wireless for about a year and just now about Feb 2012 for direct and it is 10000x wayyy better. If you can get it i would for sure do it.

PDTWN wrote:

As anyone changed to direct and noticed a differance

Wifi is rubbish. pure n simple. I have spent money on power line adapters rather than wifi dongles and they're 300 times better than wifi.

Here's the info you need : Steaming a film via WIFI = sometimes pixelated/sometimes stop n start.
via cable, same movie : Seemless!

That's why so many people have issues downloading updates from PSN. They complain it's slow but stick it on a cable connection and you get your update in seconds!

wifi is ok but it has its limits, you get more use of your speed if you direct connect and sometime the network cards for wifi actually slow the connection speed to your computer down ( ie I have 3mbs internet but only getting 1mbs on wifi

I changed from wifi to cable when I had issues with Black ops a while ago. The lan gave me serious problems with gaming. After switching to cable i didn't have any problems anymore.

The stupid thing in my case was that my wifi router stands on top of the PS3 so I don't understand why I used wifi in the first place

luckywolfert wrote:

I changed from wifi to cable when I had issues with Black ops a while ago. The lan gave me serious problems with gaming. After switching to cable i didn't have any problems anymore.

The stupid thing in my case was that my wifi router stands on top of the PS3 so I don't understand why I used wifi in the first place

HAHAHA!

Clever Wolfy!!!
Facepalm!

PDTWN wrote:

As anyone changed to direct and noticed a differance

What you're asking is "What's better.....This:

or This?
"

I'd go with skittle coloured hardware anyday




PS, Yes I really did just open up a PS3 60gb to show you the wifi antenna

Just a little extra tidbit:

The only difference (in theory) between the 2 is stability.

A wireless connection may drop out from time to time. This is normally due to interference, distance from router and/or crap hardware (the free router you get from your ISP generally have sub-par antenna's in them, although I think the new BT one's are good).

Your actual speeds when connected on the other hand should be the same.

It usually comes down to location, if your ps3 is near the router you'd be better off going for wired, but if it's too far away you should be fine with wireless.

In terms of in-game connection/speed you aren't disadvantaged by playing wirelessly.

Thanks all for advice - will definately change to direct connection in next couple of weeks.

Siz - youre mental taking your box apart to show me but while you have it open could upgrade HDD from 60gb.

Mania112 - you need some help with that smile mate

I had the same problem playing call of duty so I hard wired for bf3. I run hardline to a router which runs from my modem. Net Gear router and garbage time Warner cable company modem. Would I be better off buying my own Modem which would be better and getting rid of the router?