I was curious. Does the signal strength you see on the ps3 have an effect on your wireless speed or is it more a measure of the stability of your connection? In other words, if your playing say COD4 and you have a 20-30% signal is your game performance any different from a 70-80% signal or does it just mean the higher the signal strength you have less of a chance to be disconnected. My assumption, as a noob, is that once you are connected you are connected and experiencing the max connection speed of 54mbs which I believe is the max for G wireless. Is the signal strength just a measure of connectivity?



Thanks for putting up with my noobish question...

I would have to agree with you. Digital tranmissions are discrete. They are either on or off. No in-between as there is w/analog.

I think you can find your answer here: http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=psnetwork&message.id=221977

I would have to agree with you. Digital tranmissions are discrete. They are either on or off. No in-between as there is w/analog.

If your signal is very low, you will lose packets/bits. So those packets will need to be resent. Since this is redundant, your speed will suffer.

If your signal is very low, you will lose packets/bits. So those packets will need to be resent. Since this is redundant, your speed will suffer.

Right, with any digital transmission there is a "bottoming out" where the signal is lost, even though the signal strength is above 0. Where the dead spot is of course depends on the quality of the receiver.

Right, with any digital transmission there is a "bottoming out" where the signal is lost, even though the signal strength is above 0. Where the dead spot is of course depends on the quality of the receiver.

So theoretically you can have a lower signal on one router versus another and still have a better connection beacause of the quality of the unit?

That would make sense since the WRT600N with a lower strength has a better connection than the Belkin N1 had at the4 same distances.

So theoretically you can have a lower signal on one router versus another and still have a better connection beacause of the quality of the unit?

That would make sense since the WRT600N with a lower strength has a better connection than the Belkin N1 had at the4 same distances.Yeah, different hardware reacts differently, even in the same location. Some of the better stuff has higher sensitivity, so it makes more out of the same signal.