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Nighthawk mesh and local gaming/Steam
I've replaced an aging Orbi (RBR50 and satellites) with a new Nighthawk MR80 with 2 satellites. My home internet fiber comes into the living room. Off the AT&T modem (bridge) I have my main Night...
Gaming doesn't take super fast speeds. Its more about latency. And both devices (mr/rbk) had dedicated backhaul that helps keep latency low. And with the 50 series even having an 4x4 antenna setup with 1733mbps backhaul. Its a pretty solid kit. The MK system has a 1800mbps backhaul over 3x3 antenna setup. So the older AC system is going to have similar performance over the backhaul. And the fronthauls were pretty similar. Basically upgrading gets you a little faster in certain circumstances and newer security.
If it was me? I'd go back to the 50 series and wait on the newer wifi 7 devices or look at the 8/9 series. They're really the ones that might show improvements but even that isn't going to be much (because its not a speed issue).
Thanks for the reply!
I think there's a little more than latency involved because of us streaming video/audio from our desktops to another PC in the house (laptops). That's pumping ~60FPS video across at least one backhaul (satellite where the PCs are wired in -> satellite where the laptops are wirelessly connected). The only data going back from the laptops to the desktops is control inputs... left, right, swing the camera this way, etc.
I guess the best comparison is a really intense Remote Desktop Protocol session 🙂
And Steam handles this pretty well overall but there are occasional dips. I just want to check if there's any better experience we could be getting with a setting or two, IF anyone here has a similar setup. I know. It's somewhat unorthodox. I think Steam uses this setup more for "Big Picture" mode which people use to stream gaming from a desktop to a very large display i.e. a TV.