Does any one know from personal experience if being connected to an ethernet cable allows for a faster flow of pieces (lower ping) here in lichess? thanks!
from a theoretical standpoint yes it does, cable is **usually** more stable and faster than wi-fi, for example a cat6 ethernet cable (which is pretty common nowadays) can transfer _up to_ 1000Mbps, while (from my experience) most home routers transmit _up to_ 100Mbps for wireless connections (YMMV).
Having said that, newer gaming routers claim to eliminate lag (http://us.dlink.com/home-solutions/gaming-router/) but I haven't tried them so I cant comment.
Addendum: Lag is not only caused by bandwidth though, walls, distance to source and noise also affect the quality of the signal
Bandwidth is irrelevant to lag.
Can confirm. Doesn't matter a lot. I have ping around 35 ms on WiFi and 29 ms on cable. But I think it fluctuates less on cable (obviously?).
I have at least 60 ms ping from Latvia (wifi)
Thibault, your link is broken. Did you mean this one?
http://shop.us.dlink.com/d-link-dir-890l-r-ac3200-ultra-wi-fi-router-red-w-ac1900-wi-fi-adapter.html
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