nickchraj wrote: ↑20 Apr 2026, 13:28
DeltaForCain wrote: ↑19 Apr 2026, 04:12
None of that has to do with electrical interference or similar, unless you can actually cite your sources. It’s 100% bad setup that leads to lag.
I have recently spent some money on slightly more high quality networking hardware for my home network (enterprise-ish stuff), and that entirely eliminated every single bit of packet loss, bufferbloat, variable jitter, etc. for me. All still using the same sockets. What’s different is the quality of the parts, the quality of the drivers, the cooling (seems to be the biggest factor as my new router is far cooler than my old Fritzbox especially under load), and the overhead.
Unless you’re living in a developing country where the infrastructure is absolutely terrible, your wiring will not result in additional lag.
what do you mean "bad setup"? i dont think you are knowledgeable about the issue enough. there are people who swap their entire setups twice and 3 times i mean every component, and still have the issue, there is not any amount of bios or windows tweaks that could solve this. so what it could be?, its either electricity or people are imagining things.
"packet loss, bufferbloat, variable jitter", none of these is what this thread or this forum is about, these are completely different set of problems that may or may not be caused by electrical factors.
I literally wrote what I mean in the post you quoted. Where is the issue. Network lag is 100% setup (bad routers, bad gateways, bad switches, bad cables, using the shoddy mainboard ethernet, or hell, even using for gaming) and has nothing to do with electrical interference, unless you live inside a transformer.
As for peripherals: Input lag is solved by using a cable, but even proper wireless keyboards and gaming mice have incredibly low latencies these days. I run a 2.4 Ghz mouse, and despite having over 35 IoT devices in my 2.4 Ghz Wifi network, which permeates my living space, I have not a single signal dropped on my mouse.
As for stuff outside of your own setup: Again, unless you live in a developing country, where no building codes even exist, all your power lines will be shielded, and the electrical fields that are generated by your devices will be localised to their individual rooms. So unless you’re running your 2000W kettle as well as your microwave RIGHT NEXT to your wireless mouse, they physically
cannot interact on an electromagnetic level. Especially since those high power draw devices are again shielded to lower the risk of interference. Microwaves are known to interfere with older Bluetooth devices, but you have to physically move the receiver or transmitter next to the microwave for that to happen.
So, to sum up: If you have lots of lag, and you have excluded
everything else (you likely haven’t), find a contractor who will dig out the microwave from your walls.
nickchraj wrote: ↑20 Apr 2026, 13:28
there are people who swap their entire setups twice and 3 times i mean every component, and still have the issue, there is not any amount of bios or windows tweaks that could solve this. so what it could be?
It’s these people not understanding what the real problem is. Likely people blindly applying ”windows fixes” that are the real culprit (stuff like timer changes, changing CPU sets, changing MSI-x tables, etc., without knowing what they’re doing.