Why Ethernet is ALWAYS better than WiFi

If you're a serious gamer or want the most speed from your internet connection. Use a cable. This is why.
In our test we're using a Virgin Voom Business connection (350Mbps). If you have a speedy broadband link, watch this.

[@BallpenEater]

420 mbps! blaze it

[@syrus3k]

I'm not sure 300mbit more will make any difference to your gaming experience. Latency and packet loss far more important.

[@JacobNintendoNerd99]

This is fair, it’s also the most important reason to get a good ethernet setup vs a good wifi setup. A decent ethernet cable will ALWAYS have a hell of a lot lower ping than WiFi does just because there’s less interpretation the system has to do for ethernet vs wifi. Some people don’t realize that ping is the most important thing, so even though their ethernet has better latency some people will just write it off because the WiFi has better speed but worse latency in some cases with lower end gear

[@norrinradd8923]

Not just speed also for security.......

[@outbook]

420! :D

[@Maniclout]

Damn I already wondered why I got an ethernet cable with my laptop but now I know why lol.

[@mayank5809]

Lmao

[@AzaiKang]

I'm an IT graduate and school didn't taught this. Thank you very much! This helps a lot for my online gaming experience.

[@QuantumBraced]

Properly configured Wi-Fi 6 set to an interference-free 5 GHz channel can get you 400 mbps no problem with 4 antennas, maybe even 3. Same latency, zero dropped packets. Of course Ethernet is easier and cheaper and guaranteed to deliver, but if you can't get it, don't think Wi-Fi is automatically going to be worse.

[@Poorchicken]

I have 500mbps on wifi and I have a wifi 5 router

[@theDrzhivargo]

@@Poorchicken how far is the router from ur pc?

[@georgebrodie9795]

Question will being hooked up to Ethernet improve my response to my security cameras ?

[@JacobNintendoNerd99]

I can’t promise it definitely will, but I can say it definitely can’t hurt to try. The worst case scenario is that you remove a weak point in your interface, since hacking WiFi is a child’s game compared to trying to hack an ethernet connection, which would require you to have physical access

[@TNT_509_IDK]

i used wifi cuz my ethernet wall jack is far away from my pc but this wid made me order a 15m ethernet cable so i won't lag all the time

[@empegirl9696]

What internet service provider you use brother? And where country you now?

[@mousecursor6521]

In our test we're using a Virgin Voom Business connection (350Mbps)

[@pandakso3365]

Probably NetZero

[@JDMACC]

we knew this back when dual band came out and what are you gonna do with all that speed on a shitty laptop??

[@kennethcochrane2904]

People are encouraged to use wifi because you need to buy new modems all the time and it costs more. It's the counterproductive use of energy use twice as much energy to push a signal, than get less than half the speed. Most devices are built without the capability to use Ethernet to ensure wasted energy. You're computer or device has a device within it that uses energy to capture a signal. Than consider the limit of resources and plastic pollution. These companies encourage waste but it will be our great grandchildren picking plastic out of the ocean, and cleaning the environment that will be the necessary labour force, the production of food will slow dramatically as people will be forced to deal with the dilemma they'll pick an old wifi router out of the ground and think what primitive stupid creatures we were.

[@TrizziEhgan]

I use Ethernet this weekend, but after my weekend, I have to use WiFi all the time :/

[@eggsandbacon247]

why..?

[@ks2884]

Strange. I've just plugged the cable in and there's no difference at all. I've run the speed test a few times on 3 different websites and the only difference is uploading speed which is slightly higher when I'm connected to the ethernet.

[@eggsandbacon247]

helps with lag spikes if still no help get a better router they give u a cheap 1 in beginning

[@zingg7203]

Your Internet speed depends on both LAN and WAN. It might be that your LAN is not bottlenecking your internet connection

[@Harem__King]

Ethernet is just a little more reliable

[@maxirunpl]

It doesn't change much if you have bad internet like me.

[@BigEightiesNewWave]

latency is worse too on wifi

[@z1mt0n1x2]

Video is kind of misleading. Speed is speed, it has nothing much to do with games other than downloading them. What a gamer want is lower ping, I'd be much more interested to see a video about that.

[@laku365]

we just moved and in my room theres no ethernet cable and i need to play on wireless its so fuckin shit my ping is 120 always and it used to be 20-50

[@maldonadorafael24]

Stick to ethernet

[@ziqEh31]

is the internet spiking or not if on ethernet?

[@brennethd5391]

Did you change the channel width size in your router settings to 40MHz?

[@StarcraftSwarm]

Would Connecting my router to my laptop through a lan cable instead of connecting through wifi help with ping spikes?

[@ayjay8883]

with an ethernet cable yes

[@myk1_sp]

Indeed!

[@jquinlan94]

Connected to ethernet, my speed goes way up, from 164 mbps to 374 mbps. My download speed goes from 136 mbps to 97 mbps though. My upload speed goes from 22 mbps to 24 mbps. How is this?

[@myk1_sp]

Less interference because wires don't really get interference unlike Wifi where that has to go everywhere around the building.

[@TechnoMasterBoy]

"Always better than wifi" Yeah of course if you use the laptops shitty default network card. Get something like Asus AC68 and you probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference between ethernet and wireless. Also for gaming, ping is significantly more important than wether your download speed is 130 or 420. Should of used speedtest like everyone else to show the difference in ping aswell as upload. Video should instead be labeled "Why Ethernet is ALWAYS better than cheap WiFi".

[@VKBOSS2]

wired will always be better than wireless.

[@guilhermepinto719]

mine isnt better mine started to be worse idk why

[@VKBOSS2]

depends on the type of ethernet cable as well. Minimum you want to get is a cat5e cable anything lower than cat5e e.g cat1-cat5 is not worth it. I would recommend you to get a cat6 cable or higher though.

[@gam85191]

nice one lad

[@AyushKumar-bj6yq]

WHICH OPERATING SYSTEM YOU ARE USING IN THIS VIDEO PLEASE TELL

[@turepiroy8]

It's the chromebook os

[@cjaden]

Chromebook OS

[@AyushKumar-bj6yq]

@@cjaden how to download it

[@cjaden]

@@AyushKumar-bj6yq it's for chromebooks. Buy a chromebook to use it

[@AyushKumar-bj6yq]

@@cjaden ok thanks

[@cygnuscraft9544]

love your voice