procreate Posted August 19, 2015 Posted August 19, 2015 So I have a fairly large wired network, for a house anyway so I have multiple switches. Do they impart more lag?
Trolling_Farm Posted August 20, 2015 Posted August 20, 2015 Hmm each device has to talk to each other. I notice a 1-5ms talk time between the device. So the more devices the more talk time it had to do on each device. That's how I look at it.
prencher Posted August 20, 2015 Posted August 20, 2015 Assuming they are decent, plain switches, you should see sub-millisecond latency from it. If they are retrofitted routers or just cheap, all bets are off, could have terrible firmware.
prencher Posted August 20, 2015 Posted August 20, 2015 Unlikely to have any issues or noticeable latency then, all such a switch does is route from one port to another based on MAC addresses. Firmware will be minimal, if not entirely based in hardware.
bagsta69 Posted August 20, 2015 Posted August 20, 2015 I use the GS105 Netgear switch and do not notice any issues at all.
KayOneX-24 Posted August 20, 2015 Posted August 20, 2015 I am using exactly the same Netgear switch at home for a long time and I do not feel any lag. I do not know how your setup is, but I guess it is this way: Modem/Gateway -> Netduma R1 -> Netgear switch. If it is, then you can check whether you get lag by pressing the Windows button (assuming you use Windows), typing "cmd" (without the quotation marks). Make a traceroute to 8.8.8.8 by typing "tracert 8.8.8.8" (again without the quotation marks) into your command line. If you now get any latency higher than 1 ms between your first and your second hop, then you have got lag. But even then it does not mean it is the fault of the Netgear switch.
procreate Posted August 20, 2015 Author Posted August 20, 2015 yes, i run star configs of the wired network, so: modem>r1>switch>devices >switch>devices >device >device etc. i am just looking at all possibilities for packet backups.
KayOneX-24 Posted August 20, 2015 Posted August 20, 2015 yes, i run star configs of the wired network, so: modem>r1>switch>devices >switch>devices >device >device etc. i am just looking at all possibilities for packet backups. Ok. That's the same setup that I did use some time ago. From my experience there should be no issue for you. But you could do the trace route test for confirmation.
procreate Posted August 21, 2015 Author Posted August 21, 2015 i wish i had 11 friends who played CoD and would just have LAN parties. even just 7... if they only had this when i was in college i would have never dropped out.
KayOneX-24 Posted August 21, 2015 Posted August 21, 2015 I feel your pain. I used to play a lot of Quake in LAN back in the 90s when I was still in school. Nowadays, many of my friends have already turned away from Call Of Duty. Gaming is not the same as it used to be back in the 90s or earlier 2000s. Sadly. We can say, Call Of Duty is going to die. Maybe just 3 years and it is over.
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