Wii U has no ethernet port

[Viper1]

KylieDog said:

Viper1 said:

KylieDog said:

Carl2291 said:
As someone who only uses WiFi, this isnt a problem.

I can play FIFA, CoD, Halo, Uncharted, etc. online with no problems at all.

If you only use wifi you have no frame of reference to make such a statement like 'no problems at all'.  Probably think the input delay is the normal response.

I showed a picture of my Wi-Fi ping times.  Is 3ms really enough to break your gameplay experience?

Because you're the only person in a game playing wirelessly?  It is more than ones persons connection that affects a game, when a console doesn't offer an ethernet port most people going to run wireless instead, is why online gaming on Wii was so terrible, everyone wireless 100% of the time.

I cannot believe people trying to downplay how much worse wifi is compared to ethernet.  It isn't opinion, it is fact.

Your connection is apparently not what is common, http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/news/article.php/3927876

Online gaming on Wii had problems but it wasn't because of Wi-Fi, it was because of the infrastructure.

And what most of us are trying to get you people to understand is that the difference in the experience between wired and wireless can be minimized with proper optimisations.   I already stated as much a few times in this thread (beamforming, MIMO, channel bonding, 3x3:3 arrays and more).   And your article agrees with me.  Read the whole thing.

You also need to break the article into 2 parts.  Bandwidth and latency.   A 30% reduction in bandwidth may have 0% effect on your online expereince (unless you already have a very slow speed).   If you get 8 Mb wired, 5.6 Mb using Wi-Fi won't alter your experience.   As for the latency.   If you normally get 1ms latency wired (I get 1 ms wireless from my laptop a room away from the router), a 20% increase (would be less than 2 ms) also will not alter yoru online experience.   For those figures to impact your experience, you have to already be near the minimum bandwidth and latency levels to see a difference.  Your controller latency and TV latency are likely greater than your Wi-Fi latency.

And that still ignores the fact that a dongle exists to enable a wired connection.  I don't hear PS3 users complainaing that Wi-Fi destroys their online experience.  And don't forget how pissed off a lot fo people were that MS didn't include Wi-Fi with the X360 from the begining.  AND their solution cost $99.   Rather than Nintendo's solution that is $15 on Amazon.com.

Nobody is trying to say there is no difference.  What are trying to say is the difference can be nullified to the point that it has no impact on the experience.   And if you simply can't alter the set up well enough to reduce any problems, then pay the damn $15 for the dongle and be done with it.