Routers, Cables and Network Hardware

Hardware is where most money gets wasted on latency. A router with good queue management genuinely stops your ping from exploding under load; a Cat8 cable in a house does nothing at all. These guides separate the two, and say plainly which upgrades change a number you can measure.

The consistent theme: the wireless link and the queue in your router are the two places a home network actually adds latency. Almost everything else is already fast enough.

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