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Who makes the best WiFi chips? (alien.top)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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So there are many companies offering WiFi chips: Intel, Mediatek, Qualcomm, Realtek etc... who makes the best ones?

I am sorry if this question sounds stupid, because in the tech world it's best to compare the products themselves, not the brand. However I am not familiar with how this sector of the hardware industry works and product lines of each company. So I hope your answers can enlighten me and others in the same boat.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Realistically, even the cheapest Realtek ones have been "good enough" for the past years. I've been gaming competitively on a 10$ 2.4ghz one without issues.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

that's not a very hard workload

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

In my experience Intel is generally best, but they all make duds, including Intel. I use a Qualcomm in my laptop at work and it’s very good.

Indeed, but most people I know that demand the best NICs (not necessarily wifi ones), have low latency gaming in mind, thus my comment. What I was trying to say was that even cheap ones, are "good enough" for such scenarios.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Contrary to popular believe I don't think "gaming competitively" is anything hard on any modern network card. In my IT life, bandwidth is sometimes the issue, latency is sometimes the issue, but latency caused by the wifi card itself has almost never been the issue, and gaming uses miniscule amount of bandwidth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Competitive online gaming has been feasible on wi-fi for a long number of years now. Obviously ethernet is better, it just is plain and simple. However wi-fi gets about 90% there and the remaining 10% between wi-fi and ethernet won't make someone a pro gamer or not. wi-fi is seriously fine in 2023, the latency is low and the throughput is high