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welcome back to take acid is baronies coming back to you guys today with a quick video on why wireless can sock for gaming now as you guys know my e 2200 recently died on me and I was waiting for an anti-sea to rock up in the mail and it did today so in the meantime I was using a wireless adapter to play you know play games and do what I do did work on the computer and it just sucked like for gaming it sucked and this was probably because I had a really thick wall in the way anyway I'll take you over to some gameplay footage I'll talk about the catch-22 involved here and also at the end I'll make some recommendations for you guys so let's move on to the gameplay video anyway so this is a game called heroes of newerth now this is a perfect game for showing why games can suck if you getting packet loss so as you can see here I'm getting packet loss on my wireless adapter and heroes and you know things are just jumping around on the screen pretty much teleporting from time to time and this is just due to packet loss and since it's a server-side based game when the packets come to the client side where I'm at you know that this the data just says well you meant to be here now banks or just teleport smell across the screen it's really just jaggedy and pretty much unplayable now I'm sure if I had a lot better wireless setup this wouldn't happen now I did test this on my wife's laptop and I was only about a meter and a half away two meters from the router and you know there was no walls or anything blocking and the gameplay was really smooth so this just goes to show that yeah the wall is sort of blocking the wireless signal at my house but let's contrast this now that I've installed the NAC let's have a look now so this is just popping over to me installing the icings here the disconnect symbols are just gone away completely so there's no interrupts there's it's just smooth now the catch-22 involved with this is that if you generally if it's too difficult to route a cable and there's lots of barriers of walls in between you and your router then the wireless signal is most likely going to be bad as well so that's you know that's the catch-22 involve so I always recommend a cable if you can so in conclusion I will say if you guys want to go with a wireless gaming setup and you probably will do if you're going for the people with the mini TX builds you want to invest in a good wireless router and also a good Wi-Fi adapter now the onboard solutions from the zoos and gigabyte etc on their mini ITX boards are actually pretty damn good they've got good signal strength so you know there's no problems there if you're thinking about pulling the trigger on a mini ITX build then you don't have to worry about those adapters what you will have to worry about is getting a good wireless rattle with a good signal in my case I'm sure if I had a better wireless router and a better wireless adapter I wouldn't have the stuttering that I was getting in this video but you know if you guys are seeing what I'm seeing if you guys are getting these packet loss you know these disconnect symbols constantly in your games and you know you want to spend a bit more money in a wireless setup than do so if you can drill that hole and certainly drill that hole as well so that's the you know that's what I've done is I'll pull up a little quick slide for you guys here you know I need my I j45 cable so I drilled a hole around the cable straight to the router and that's what I'm using at the moment so I guys I hope you enjoyed this video if you did please give it a thumbs up and I'll be catching you guys soon with the width alive yeah the life is coming tomorrow so i will catch you guys soon with that and also there's a very interesting video coming to which is pretty cool you'll be you guys will love it so anyway peace out for now but i'll see ya soon