Along with seeing how today's gaming routers stacked up against one another, I wanted to get a sense of how they compared with the sort of standard routers that you might be tempted to upgrade from. The only speakers connected are my logitechs, connected to my pc.

As for wireless speeds, the graph above shows the top speeds for each router on both the 2.4GHz band (blue) and the faster 5GHz band (red) at distances of 5, 37.5 and 75 feet.

(I don’t have the alien or UDM, and I’m no qos expert, this is just what I’ve learn from a ridiculous amount of online reading and watching videos, so pros may be able to give you better insight). As said before, there's only so much your router can do to bring lag down, especially if you're connecting to a busy server that's thousands of miles away. © CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. With that in mind, I made sure to run each of my dozens and dozens of speed tests for each router to the same server located a few hundred miles away and I logged the ping to that server each and every time. So any latency improvements that Alien has over Gamers Edition is just because of the improved hardware. The RT-AC86U was similarly strong on the 2.4GHz band, too. Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic. On top of that, the unique, attractive design doesn't take up an obnoxious amount of space -- and with a touchscreen on the front and LED lights around the base, you'll actually want it to sit out in the open, where it performs better. If I set latency as priority in the Amplifi app will the bandwidth be limited too?

With the amplifi tt being an interface, shouldn't it reduce the latency?how can i stop it. AmplifiHD treating all Ethernet traffic as priority explains a lot I think. Just for additional information, if I go UniFi I'm leaning towards Dream Machine Pro with managed switches and will upgrade to those wifi AP's later.   Your link has been automatically embedded. That'd be our top pick, the Asus RT-AC86U, which returned an average of 13.1ms on the 2.4GHz band and 12.9ms on the 5GHz band. I could feel the network "lag" during heavy use, especially when compared directly to Plume. That could mean better speeds throughout your home, even if you aren't using Wi-Fi 6 devices yet. I switched to Plume for this reason, as testing showed they had the lowest latency when the network was being heavily used (mine is constantly used for 1-2 1080p video streams). I also looked at the UDM and UDM pro and from all the forums I read and people I talked to it’s qos isn’t that great either. You need to log into the web interface in order to tweak that QoS engine, though. We're still in the process of testing it out, but I've published my initial speed test data and first impressions, and think it's definitely one to keep an eye on. Plus, the design is gamer-friendly without being too over-the-top. After running multiple speed tests from each of those locations, I averaged everything together. Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible. Do you have your speakers or headphones connected to the TT or to the computer.

If you have them connected to the computer, yes, you'll probably have some pretty serious latency. These QoS settings are only available for wireless clients, since all wired clients connected via an Ethernet cable, will automatically have higher priority than the wireless clients. Here's what jumps out to me from these results.   Pasted as rich text. I had the amplifi connected to pc via usb.

CNET editors pick the products and services we write about. If you're paying for speeds of up to, say, 50 megabits per second, then your router won't transmit data from the cloud any faster than that. It also has the ability to prioritize one device over all others. On the whole, it clocked in with an average speed throughout the house of 187.3Mbps, which only fell to an average of 144.1Mbps in the far end of the house, with about four rooms worth of walls and furniture separating my laptop from the router (for comparison, the top-finishing Nighthawk XR500 saw its average speed drop from 310 Mbps up close to the router down to 72Mbps in that back room). The ability to see ALL traffic on my network, including ethernet (this is not a deal breaker, but it would be nice to have). Does the Alien have this same limitation? Just note that it's getting difficult to find this model in stores, as stock seems to be running low. The C5400X did well in our latency tests, so an upgraded model that adds in the bells, whistles and top speeds that come with Wi-Fi 6 should be pretty interesting. Is it worth splurging big on one that supports the speedy new Wi-Fi 6 standard? my rigs a quad core pc with 8gb ram.i know it can handle it. Asus also boasts an excellent router app and web control interface for easy setup, along with helpful features like a quality of service engine and lots of other ways to optimize your connection. So no different than the gamer edition. When you add in the additional tests I ran to double-check a result or measure the impact of specific features, it amounts to roughly 1,000 speed tests and counting.

Fast-forward to 2016: as CTO, I am excited to write about Ubiquiti’s Wi-Fi mesh networking technology in our AmpliFi TM home Wi-Fi system. That Amplifi becomes your soundcard when hooked up via USB, and the best way to use it is as an input and output device. Display as a link instead, × The worst offender was the Linksys EA8300, which returned average latencies of 37.5ms on the 2.4GHz band and 35.4ms on the 5GHz -- dead last on both fronts. Capable of passing up to 1.3 Gbps over the air, the AmpliFi mesh networking fabric features various built-in smarts to ensure a smooth home Wi-Fi experience: Self-Forming