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PC Gaming network card. What do you use?
Ok so ya, I am not a gaming noob, and I'm not totally ignorant of PC tech talk, but I am trying to learn more. I have a good idea of my perfect gaming PC, but I don't know much about properly configuring a network for internet connections. My FPS on BF3 is up in the 80's to 120's so I'm good there, but my internet if fussy. I currently use a [Belkin F7D2102 N300 Micro Wireless N USB Adapter] and that's it. Ya, I know it's probably wrong, but it's so easy lol. I don't even know if it's properly configured, my internet is constantly dropping and the icon in the tray says my IPv6 is not connected. So stupid. Anyways, I'm curious what you pro PC gamers out there have? Here's my questions:
1. Do any of you do wireless or is it a MUST to do wired?
2. Do you have an internal network card or external?
3. Is there any software that can assess your internet connection and configure it for you?
4. Any other tips or tricks that you can recommend to really boost my signal strength?
5. What is your internet setup, including compatibility and configuration?
It looks like people like the Killer 2100 with bigfoot software, is that correct? Anything else I should know?
Thank you all for your help :)
1 Answer
- 8 years agoFavorite Answer
1. I use both, I game on a laptop : Toshiba L755-M1E9. I have Verizon FiOS 50/25, I don't see much difference aside from Speedtests (Over wireless I get 30~Mbps/20~Mbps, over wired I get 55~Mbps/35~Mbps). However in game, there's no significant difference.
2. Both my wireless and wired cards are internal, on my desktop I used to use a USB wireless dongle, that increased my lag by 20ms~60ms.
3. If you're on the internet, your internet is configured. I don't really understand what you're asking here.
4.You can check your router, see if it has an extended range mode.
5. Over my wired connection I set it to use DMZ, which fixes my P2P issues, because Verizon can't update their stupid router firmware and I have NAT issues.
" My FPS on BF3 is up in the 80's to 120's so I'm good there, but my internet if fussy." I don't understand this part. Does Battlefield drop frames when your internet is acting bad? FPS should directly correlate to CPU, GPU, RAM and HDD speeds.
Also the Killer 2100, all I know about it is that it contains its own CPU and RAM to offload stress from your actual CPU. I live on the East Coast, pinging California from my state is only 80ms and I never trust these 'gaming' NICs or sound cards. So I hope someone else can help you with that.
Source(s): http://www.speedtest.net/result/2763058931.png Pinging to a server one state away. http://www.speedtest.net/result/2763060790.png Pinging to California. Both over my integrated Ethernet NIC.
