Playing games feels slow and choppy because of high latency jitter
Playing games feels slow and choppy because of high latency jitter
I am playing a match with about forty to eighty pings, but sometimes they jump up to one hundred or three hundred for just a few seconds. That is really annoying. My router uses a 5G SIM card in a small box, and my service says it can handle about fourteen-six megabytes per second. I connect the router to a gaming laptop with a CAT8 cable because that is usually idle. Then I connect the laptop to my desktop using another CAT8 cable. The realtek card on my motherboard has 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet capability, and it also supports WiFi 6E even though I haven't tried it yet.
All your fancy cables and ports mean nothing when you have a wireless connection in the path. It doesn't matter if it is 146mb games only need maybe 1mbps. Since the radio bandwidth is shared by many users and is also subject to interference you are always going to get jitter. There is no real solution to this. No application other than games is affected so the providers don't care. Pretty much why it is said you should never play games on any kind of wifi or mobile broadband, it is too unpredictable. Note on your cable. They are all likely fake cables. There is no such thing as cat6"e". The higher standard is cat6a. Almost all cat8 cables a general consumer can get are also fake. They are only used in data centers where you have more than 10gbit ports. Real cat8 cable are extremely expensive. It is not the cause of your problem because bad cables you get data loss not delay. It depends on how poorly made the fake cables are, could be you just paid way too much for nothing.