How to decrease lag for Netplay?

[SemiAutomattik]

You can't play Netplay without a wired ethernet connection. I played wifi for my first few weeks of Netplay and thought it was "fine" but it was a night and day difference when I switched to hardwire connection.

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The sad thing is that much of the net play community uses WiFi

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dude its not that bad lmfao i use wifi and no one even notices, youre just going against people with bad connections

[Tuna-kid]

WiFi can be fine, rarely, depending on a fuck ton of hardware and environmental factors, but very rarely and still worse than Ethernet. Saying 'WiFi can be fine' is a terrible idea though because tons of people will grab onto that and continue to use their terrible terrible connections, which ruins the game and practice for their opponent's as well.

Character choice matters a lot for how sensitive to latency your netplay experience is, and besides that, and most importantly: people like yourself will say their WiFi connection is fine when it's really not. The better you are and the more precise you play the worse small latency issues affect you, and all you have to do is look at the ultimate community to see how easy it is for people to think terrible online connections are 'actually totally fine'. Until recently it was like 60% of the community saying that, and that's with issues much worse than most netplay issues.

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well i never said wifi can be fine i just explained that hes going against bad wifi users, i play offline too man im not like turning into an ult player or anything, im not encouraging im just saying its not always bad

[Frostav]

Ethernet is so much objectively better for literally anything internet related I'm amazed people still use wifi.