In a four-person share house in Kingsford on an HFC 105M plan (Netcomm router), one student’s room sat three walls away from the main router, and games like League of Legends and Steam titles were unplayable at night — high ping, packet loss, constant lag. A straight cable run would have been ideal, but the on-hand 10m cable couldn’t reach through the house’s odd layout. A wireless repeater plus a short LAN run to the PC got in-game ping stable under 20 ms.
The plan and router were fine. The weak link was the wireless path: the gaming room sat three walls from the main router in an oddly laid-out house, so signal dropped and latency spiked at night.
| WiFi across 3 walls | Repeater + LAN to PC | |
|---|---|---|
| LOL ping | High, spiky (esp. at night) | Stable under 20 ms in-game |
| Packet loss | Noticeable | Steady |
| That night | The student reported no more stutter during games. | |
Root cause: three walls of WiFi between the main router and the gaming room, not the HFC 105M plan or the Netcomm router. A wireless repeater near the room plus a short LAN run to the PC brought League of Legends ping to a stable sub-20 ms — and the student reported no more in-game stutter that night.
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