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Player2 on 09 November 2012
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runqvist said:
Player2 said:
runqvist said:
 

It was 15.xxx ms, very close to be rounded to 16ms.

Your point was that I was not even aware of my screens input lag. But hey, of course you can show me a 46-47" screen which has better input lag. Maybe I will consider it to replace my working room tv, which is pretty old. I'm waiting.

You are just plain wrong about that, everyone has input lag. I think most people have at least 16ms input lag, usually even more. Therefore, that extra lag from wifi is always just extra lag compared to people with wired connections. As it also being said many times in this thread, wifi latency fluctuates which could bring you some lag spikes. Those are the worst on multiplayer games.

Again, if you cared about lag you would prioritize lag over size. 32" is more than enough unless you live in a palace.

Nikkom has posted here a wifi test with 8ms of ping using his laptop, so the minimum of 16 ms of lag for everybody... just no. If you have wifi spikes then you have a problem in your connection or you need to put your console closer to the router like Viper1 have explained before.

And again, if the sum of all the lag is below 16 ms you won't notice almost anything. Time is a discrete variable in videogames.


Uh, lol.

32" is adequate if your sofa is like 2 meters max from your tv. That would make one really tiny room. My tv set is roughly 4 meters from my couch and I could not do with any smaller television. In fact a bigger television would be really nice, but my girlfriend does not want any bigger screen for our living room.

He posted a picture with ping test, which differs a lot of the reality when you are gaming. Spikes come even if you have your wifi device within 2 meters from your router. There is a 14 meter distance from my router to my tv set, which is too much but that is the only option with my apartments layout.

And you were going to use an ethernet cable?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimum_HDTV_viewing_distance

Since you can't put the TV in your home to view it with an inclination of 40º (you'll need a roof of... 4-5m?) we have to go with manufacturers' recommendations, and 4m is almost fine for a 32" (At worst you'll have to move your couch 0.3m). Another option is a bigger TV like the Panasonic TC-L37S1.