Wired is always better than wireless, how much depends on a lot of things, like your router and other things in your room that utilize radio waves.

It depends on so many things we can't have an answer for you.

one thing is for sure, Wired will not be slower than Wi-Fi.... but it may not be enough of an advantage in speed and reliability to be worth the extra cost or extra hassle of the wires. (but then the extra hassle of wires will vary massivly between every house and person too.... For me to have a wired connection to the Wii would involve a long wire and a hole drilled in my wall, plus pulling carpets up and moving everything to get the wire to my room... or to avoid drilling a hole in the wall a really long (10m+) wire going out into the hallway and back into my room... which would involve cutting a place for the wire to go under 3 different carpets and going through 2 doors (with the gripping plate between the doors needing cutting)

Luckily I have a pretty good throughput for my wireless it seems. On occasion the iPlayer has had to stop and load unfortunately, but it's rare.

Wired provides the best speed and reliability. I've had good luck with wireless G and N at short distances. If you go through a wall or two, you still have enough speed for web video, most internet browsing and online gaming, but raw download speeds are still subpar.

Wireless routers also have a nasty tendency to stop connecting and need to be reset in order to connect. Its not very often, but it does happen.

If possible to go Monoprice.com, buy the cable and wire the whole house.

My connection sucks so I go with wired. But in my experience, wireless blows. The way my house is designed does not really bode well for wireless.

IMO Wired is best.

Wireless for me, very rarely I get lag...

I haven't tried the wired method, but here are the facts.

Wired cable Internet runs at a speed of 100 mbps.

The absolute maximum wireless internet can run at is 54 mbps.

That 54 mbps is divided among every wireless device connected to your router, so if you have two devices connected, they each get 27mbps, and so on.



So, overall, wired is preferable in pretty much every case. The only question is, is the experience 'that much' better that it justifies buying the Wii's ethernet port?

Wired is usually faster however the question is....do you have other people connected by wired as well?

My sister and my computer are connected by wire. When I'm online by myself my pings are about 40 - 60 .......when her computer is on at the same time. My pings skyrocket from 800 - 1400.

My ps3 is also connected by wire and when either of our computers are on. Games are practically unplayable. LBP lags so much i can't make simple jumps, MAG won't even connect etc. etc.

If your connection is the only one using a wire then yeah it will be faster.

Those speeds you claim are bandwidths... throughput is a different question.

With a 100Mbit/sec cable your throughput is more likely to be about 60-80Mbit/sec

Most cables you can buy now though will be capable of 1Gigabit/sec....though the throughput is limited to things like disc-read speed now, (how that would affect the Wii with flash memory I am not sure) so you are unlikely to get more than 400Mbit/sec.

Wireless-g bandwidth is 54Mbit/sec.... but the throughput depends on how far you are from the access point, and the obstacles inbetween, and is also shared between how many devices are using it.... so if you were about 1 meter away with no walls and the only one connecting you might get ~40Mbit/sec, but the further you get from it the worse it will be. And multiple devices are sharing the data transfer rate, so more even if both of the devices are right next to the access point you would be lucky to get 20Mbit/sec.

Wireless-n bandwidth is 600Mbit/sec, throughput is more likely to be about 150-200 for a single device.

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Even if you had all the best stuff you may still not get an increased speed if your throughput from the ISP is poor. Using speedtest.net I supposedly have between 4 and 4.5 Mbit/sec throughput when wired in.... but about the same when using wireless from right next to the wireless access point.... in my room I am about 3 metres away physically, but also through a solid wall... I get about 3.5 Mbit/sec wirelessly.

what exactly do I need for a wired connection?