Thank God For Ethernet Cables

I've been streaming and playing games online with friends for a while now, the entire time it has been through my gaming consoles and my laptop though, none of which have ever been hard-lined in. I tend to rely very heavily on my WiFi connections to get all of my work done. This, for obvious reasons, is not always ideal. Sometimes it can cause you to miss deadlines with homework assignments. Other times you may be in a match and you suddenly disconnect. Maybe you're in a call with friends watching a movie together and you start to buffer because a storm is passing through. 

Disruptions in your connection could be for several reasons. Maybe you just do not have a good plan to begin with, maybe you should upgrade from that 400 Mbps to the 800 Mbps. Or, possibly, you have a storm passing through your area and you just can't get a good connection to the tower. Do you have a lot of people trying to connect to the WiFi at once? It could be that there are too many devices on and the router doe not know who to prioritize the connection too. 

I have always had at least one of these issues at any given point in time, especially the too many devices online at once. But now that I am in my own apartment and it is really just me using the internet at any given time, you would think I should have a pretty good connection right? Wrong. Even with a 1000 Mbps plan, I still struggle to get half of that on my laptop at times. This can be very problematic when you are trying to not only game with your friends but to also stream that gameplay online for others to see.

There very obvious solution is to just connect my device with a hardline. Yes, many people have suggested this to me. Yes, I know they are right. But I have never been able to implement that solution until now.

I finally spent the money and got a Cat 8 ethernet cable to run from my bedroom to the streaming room and boy howdy did that help! Unfortunately, a good internet connection doesn't help when your gaming software doesn't want to function properly and so you are left scrambling to find an alternative for that!

But that is a whole different issue.