Steam Link over wifi
Steam Link over wifi
Anyone have any experience playing over Steam Link on wifi?
It seems like no matter what I do, the performance is really shitty. Both the host and the client are in line of sight of the router, and I can get 500+ mbps and my latency seems good, but the performance is garbage. As soon as I go wired, I can get great performance at 100mbps or less.
Is there a good way to mitigate this? Am I doing something wrong?
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It is shittty. I wish I could find my power cable for the actual Steam Link Device.
Tested this out the other day. pC hardwired to router and laptop literally 2 feet away. It was entirely unplayable.
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I recently set up a Sunlight server to use with Moonlight on my Steam Deck and the quality and latency are better than Steam’s native streaming option. You might want to try that.
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I never got it working well on wifi and ended up cutting a hole in my wall so I could run Ethernet between the rooms
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Yes. It only worked well for me when at least one side (Link or PC) was wired. If both were wireless, it didn't work well.
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Only over a 5ghz wireless network connection.
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A few months ago I was having issues using Remote Play over WiFi to my Steam Deck.
These are the steps I took to troubleshoot the issue and overall I ended up with a much superior Steam Link experience as well.
My Steam Link is hard wired but my computer is wireless. I recommend trying to adjust some of the settings I listed in my Steam post.
Best of luck, and I'll happily answer any questions that I didn't address in my original post.
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Mine actually works pretty flawlessly over 5ghz even a couple rooms over. It seems to have improved when I got a better router, which is this one
Edit: just to mention, I am using the actual steam link device.