Ping your routers IP address. Even on a wireless connection, I will wager $20 its going to be under a milisecond. Its not wireless that is causing any lag you are experiencing...
Now try running a tracert to a website of your choice, and look at the response times...you step even one hop outside your ISP's network, and I bet you are looking at 15ms or more, which is 15x greater than the latency between your machines and your wireless router.
Edit: I did a bit more testing from my Mac, which is able to report sub 1ms ping results. Wireless comes in at about 0.6ms, while wired comes in at around 0.2ms....either way, the latency one or two hops outside your local network is 10x greater or more, so I really don't think wireless latency is anything to be concerned about.
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Last edited by sclitheroe; 09-23-2008 at 10:21 AM.
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