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00:00 Intro
00:47 Wired vs Wireless
02:26 2.4GHz vs 5GHz
03:00 Gaming Routers vs Non-Gaming Routers
04:43 QoS/SQM
08:17 Conclusion
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I do gaming on N300 2.4 GHz single band router, All you need is an Ethernet Cable & QOS Settings on your router. 😂
where is bufferbloat test?
my tmobile 5g router gets really bad ping.
While its somewhat true that no such thing as gaming router as its just a hardware with software and its more like an marketing gimmick. Though newer and better routers have better buffer bloat for ethernet as well as newer drivers though its so small that its not so important.
But for people who do rely on wifi/wireless then the router does matter and only some wifi routers of every gen have low bufferbloat and because we are on wifi-7 the Asus GT-BE19000AI, Asus GT-BE98Pro, and the TP-Link BE800.
I think the gaming router doesn’t change the ping but I got one of ROG router and it connects to dedicated servers in half a time compare to ISP router connection to servers. I do feel there is improvement while playing games with ROG router, ping remains same but how the packets are routed is real question. So I would recommend upgrading to better router then using ISP unit.