What are good latency/ping values?

[Klaus]

Ok! Bear with me — I obviously don't have much idea of what I'm doing here so I'm gonna need some guidance.

So I have my computer plugged in to my modem/router on the living room, and a TP-Link
powerline adapter to the modem too.

On my bedroom, I have my steam link wired to the other powerline adapter and on my TV.
I've been trying to improve performance as much as possible since I was having some input lag that although minimal made Fallout 4 surprisingly quite unplayable.

Fortunately, changing my TV to Game Mode (per suggestion in some threads) made a huge difference.

Now, I'm looking into the Steam Link performance values and I'd like to know if they're "good" or "bad" to see if there's anything else I can do. I know this is not exact science but even some ranges would help me out since I don't know which values should be bigger or smaller :P


Streaming Latency: <1ms input, 44.00, 46.00ms display
Ping time: 7-9ms
Estimated bandwith: 100 Mbps

How does this sound?

Thanks!

[Greg]

I'd say they're typical for a powerline adapter. A wired ethernet ping time is usually <1ms. Your input latency is added to your "ping" therefor all of your input has an 8-10ms delay. Powerline adapters are known for adding 5-15ms to the latencies though.

[Maine]

If you have a recent i7 CPU, also try turning OFF hardware encoding on the host, and see if that helps. I know it sounds counter-intuitive, but there are a lot of nuances in the difference between software and hardware encoding... hardware encoding is not inherently superior to software (in fact, the image quality is generally noticeably worse).

[Quad]

Keep in mind that your display (TV/Monitor) will add another 16-60ms onto these values. With most displays falling in just under 30ms.

• ≤16.67ms*  = Excellent
  
• 17-25.00ms = Very Good
  
• 26-33.34ms = Good
  
• 34-41.67ms = Average
  
• 43-50.01ms = OK
  
• 51-58.34ms = Borderline
  
• ≥66.67ms  = Bad

*16.67ms is 1 frame @ 60FPS.

[Leelink]

1 ms ping, however Display latency is 15ms. I took about 20ms off my original display latency by switching the tv to "Game" mode. A lot of the new TV's have this mode. I am using a wired connection that runs through two 8 port tp links and a Verizon quantum router. the cabling is about 200 feet all together. my tv is a Vizio 3d md 55 inch.

[Quad]

The two important numbers to watch for are Input and Display. Most of the time input will be <1ms and should closely follow Ping.

Input is the amount of time it takes your controller inputs to reach the PC and Display is the amount of time the video stream takes to be output to your TV/Monitor.

[Greg]

The two important numbers to watch for are Input and Display. Most of the time input will be <1ms and should closely follow Ping.

You have to add your "ping" time to both the display and input latency. It quickly becomes as important as the other two numbers if it is not <1ms