....Just a lot of people may not notice it much or be that bothered by it. Personnaly I cant stand it.
In short, wi-fi latency has gone from consistently under 1ms on XP, and vista AFAIK, to anywhere between 2-50ms. To your own router!
I have done many tests and pretty much isolated its the OS. I have tried it at friends places as well, and their windows 7 x64 does the same, ping's are around 3-8. They dont have that initial spike, but otherwise the same as me.
Give it a go, if you are running 7 preferably 64 bit 7, find your wireless routers IP address, open cmd from the start orb, and in there type
ping "your routers IP adress" -n 100
so bassialy if yor ip is 192.1.1.10 you type
ping 192.1.1.10 -n 100
And watch the pings roll by.
Heres the aboslute best results I have gotten. Pings are worse now, about 3,4 4, 6, 4, 3 etc.
Anything over 1ms consistently is just a joke.
Pinging 192.168.1.1 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=44ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=2ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=2ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=2ms TTL=64
Ping statistics for 192.168.1.1:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 2ms, Maximum = 44ms, Average = 12ms
check out my thread as well
Extremely poor Wi-fi performance in 7. Max signal. W7 constantly scanning wi-fi? Is it W7?
Lets try get a fix going. This is ridiculous. Is this the future of computing, laggier networking performance?