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Originally Posted by Chris
It shouldnt be affected Much bc i have a wireless laptop to and im ok with the game and when i play with a wire i see no major change it might be your video card
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I see the opposite. Different circumstances will, of course, demonstrate different results. YMMV, of course, but I have witnessed lag build more steadily with wireless than without.
When coming into a multi-pirate melee, replete with excessive firebrand or other voodoo staff weapons, both my wireless and wired connections will begin to lag. The key difference is that the wireless connection will flat stall, whereas the wired will still remain playable.
Now this is a limited circumstance, and as said before, YMMV. Now, if I can only increase my slow DSL to something a bit better, but that probably wont increase my game playability. See, on my setup, the internet connection itself is the bottleneck. My house wired setup is complete 100Mbit, my wireless is 802.11g running 54Mbit. My DSL is sitting somewhere in the 500kbps range. Verizon is definitely the slow link in my chain. But to get into this in a bit more detail, Lag in the game isn't completely about throughput, its about LATENCY. While both my wired and wireless connections have speeds significantly greater than my DSL rate, the wireless router is a definite source of latency, hence lag in the game.
See, the wireless must receive the packets, modulatet the packets to radio, transmit the packets over the radio, receive packets, and demodulate those packets back to standard internet protocol. Collisions, interference, number of users. are all factors in the radio throughput and latency, and the physics of this transfer is the source of lag. The game itself does not send great amounts of data over the internet, as your computer does most of the work of gameplay. Instead, it sends gabillions of tiny packets to update placements, strike directions, etc, etc. etc. over the net, and those small packets are each beset by latency lag.
If I were you, I would try a wired connection. Worst case scenario is that it doesn't help, and you haven't changed your situation at all. Best case, you have a much better game experience, and will be much happier for it.