wifi 2.4ghz or 5ghz????


Mosty using this for streaming anime....
also the wifi mode/router is downstairs, my PC will be upstairs, about 20-30 feet maybe?

This post was edited by ferf on Feb 10 2022 03:24pm

basically 5Ghz is better if you have a good signal. 5Ghz can transfer faster, but the wavelength has a harder time penetrating objects/walls. 2.4 has more congestion (neighbors will be using it more) but is more.. "stable" signal-wise.

use 5ghz if you have good signal with it. it's also possible for windows to show a lot of "bars" and the signal actually be bad. if you ping your router as a test on both networks (do this by opening a command prompt, type this and run it, let it finish: ping ROUTERADDRESS -n 100 - you want to probably use the one with the lowest amount of % loss/lowest latency (the time variable), feel free to post both logs here for an opinion. by the way, replace ROUTERADDRESS with your router's IP.. you can find this by typing ipconfig in command prompt, it'll be the number next to "default gateway" and will look like 10.X.X.X or 192.168.X.X

This post was edited by purplex on Feb 10 2022 03:37pm

Yeah thanks!! I'll test it out later, i'll start with 5ghz