I used to have rather bad latency, and I fixed it by going from playing via Wifi to running a 20m long ethernet cable from our router to my laptop, but that's not where this story ends: I found out yesterday just how insane my latency used to be on wifi...
My girlfriend told me last week that if I bought a PS3, she'd play the game with me. So I did what anyone would do, and bought a PS3! So yesterday we got her set up with a character and got started. The PS3 was plugged in via ethernet and I was on wifi, and holy sh*t the delay between our two screens was simply insane. I'd move, and my character would just stand there like an idiot for almost 2 seconds before moving. No wonder people eat plumes and Weight of the Land like it's made of cake.
EDIT: Ok, so people don't like my PC vs PS3 tests, and allright I guess it doesn't prove anything. BUT do still remember that I did see a massive improvement by switching to wired on PC alone, so even though you may disregard my "tests", do not disregard the fact that it still worked.
I then decided to test the difference between wifi and wired by getting a hub and running ethernet cables to both the laptop and PS3, and while I still got a slight delay (we live in New Zealand, not much we can do there) it was amazing how much of a difference it makes. Now we don't have a super awesome router, so wifi is bound to be a little bit sh*t on it, but I am definitely going to start requesting people come to EX primal runs connected via cable and not wifi.
I honestly think if people took reasonable steps (buying a cable is not that expensive really) to improve their connection, we'd get a lot more parties past Titan Ex without wiping repeatedly for weeks on end.
Edited, Feb 16th 2014 4:10pm by Tubrudi
Edited, Feb 16th 2014 6:36pm by Tubrudi