11-04-202108:24 PM - last edited on 01-16-202202:58 PM by Tonberry_Qing
Hey guys,
Can anyone give me advice on how to best upgrade my air link situation and explain to me how air link works?
Situation:
- I need more throughput on my airlink so I don't get compression artifacts.
- I don't have access to the router in the house, so I can't directly connect into a router or change it.
I'm hoping I can do something like get a wifi 6 card or usb stick and create a wifi hot spot with the quest 2, but I would have two wifi cards at once, and I'm not sure if this would work?
Any advice, explanations, or links are highly appreciated, thanks guys.
These Air Link requirements are the same with Virtual Desktop (I have and use both of these).
As you will see, or maybe already know, Ideally you need to connect your PC with ethernet cable to a 1gig router and use it's dedicated 5Ghz wifi as close by as possible. Wifi-only and wifi hotspots do not work well so do not believe everything you see on YouTube. Even the Virtual Desktop developer states that wifi hotspots (esp. ones using a pcie card) are not a good alternative.
The only alternative for reasonable results in your case may be to get yourself a dedicated Router and connect your PC to it and use it's wifi. However, without it being wired to your main router you will not have internet access. There are apparently some high end (and probably expensive) routers that will allow your main router to broadcast to your dedicated router but this requires a bit of know-how to setup.
Have a look at this fairly recent Reddit post, about half way down, that some guy explains pretty well what he's done and got working ok.
If you google something like; Air Link with a dedicated router,; you will find more information (and probably get more confused, lol!).
Again, this will require you to do a lot of research as you what exactly you need to do and what routers may work ok. Please be aware that this is still a second best solution. To be honest, if you are not prepared do this and/or you cannot get some local help, you are probably best to just use a good quality Link cable imho.
i9 13900K water cooled, RTX4090, Z790 MB w/wifi6e, 32Gb 6400 ram, 2x2TB SSD, 1000W PSU, Win 11, QPro, Q3, w/Link and Air Link, Vive Pro1 with 2x2.0 base stations, Etsy lens mod and Index Controllers
These Air Link requirements are the same with Virtual Desktop (I have and use both of these).
As you will see, or maybe already know, Ideally you need to connect your PC with ethernet cable to a 1gig router and use it's dedicated 5Ghz wifi as close by as possible. Wifi-only and wifi hotspots do not work well so do not believe everything you see on YouTube. Even the Virtual Desktop developer states that wifi hotspots (esp. ones using a pcie card) are not a good alternative.
The only alternative for reasonable results in your case may be to get yourself a dedicated Router and connect your PC to it and use it's wifi. However, without it being wired to your main router you will not have internet access. There are apparently some high end (and probably expensive) routers that will allow your main router to broadcast to your dedicated router but this requires a bit of know-how to setup.
Have a look at this fairly recent Reddit post, about half way down, that some guy explains pretty well what he's done and got working ok.
If you google something like; Air Link with a dedicated router,; you will find more information (and probably get more confused, lol!).
Again, this will require you to do a lot of research as you what exactly you need to do and what routers may work ok. Please be aware that this is still a second best solution. To be honest, if you are not prepared do this and/or you cannot get some local help, you are probably best to just use a good quality Link cable imho.
i9 13900K water cooled, RTX4090, Z790 MB w/wifi6e, 32Gb 6400 ram, 2x2TB SSD, 1000W PSU, Win 11, QPro, Q3, w/Link and Air Link, Vive Pro1 with 2x2.0 base stations, Etsy lens mod and Index Controllers
In the end, the booster we have that boosts the original router is actually working well enough, it wasn't any better via a cable. The booster uses different bands apparently, so the signal is pretty good and very close by.
The official link cable didn't work in my computer unfortunately, I borrowed it from a friend.
A little update in case someone find this thread, my laptop has an intel ax200 that supports both bands, so I connect to the internet with 2.4GHz and make a hotspot with 5GHz to connect with the oculus. The experience it's quite enjoyable. I think I may be able to play even from a hotel room with this setup.
My computer has a wifi 6 card it allows me to do bridged connection to a device. but i just connect to a wifi 6 to a standard wifi 6 router "as if its wired" and i get decent results. 1200 mbps and about 30ish ms of lag.
that said the air bridge is going to be comming out. you can get a dongle like this if you want to directly connect to your pc with a router.
ik it is very old post, but tbh your problem still didnt get solved the way you want. But sadly i cant find any info, as your post is the first one that came up with google search, so ill try to reply here. I dont have access to the house router either as it is rental.
If you were about to spend money anyway, buy a router. Skip all the network card stuff, all the hotspot, a simple router is all you need. mine cost me like 40$USD it is wifi6 nothing fancy, and i am VD user, it has been rock solid for the past 2 years, like rock solid!. I dont want to say the model i am using here but PM is welcomed.
So essentially, connect your pc to the router you bought via cable, and bridge the wifi your house sends out, try to set a new wifi off your new router and name it differently and only use 5G band (important). And thats it. for me i use powerline to connect to the home router wiredly. It is hassle free, always works, and now i even have my small LAN i can use among all my devices.
It is sad that all the hardware is there, (pc has wifi, headset has wifi, but they cant directly talk to each other has to be via the router, i guess it is wifi protocol limitation?
Even the Virtual Desktop developer states that wifi hotspots (esp. ones using a pcie card) are not a good alternative.
Citation needed. I keep seeing people sating this but cannot find any evidence of it so I would love to see where this has originally come from. I use a usb wifi adapter and it's totally fine at 1200mbps on VD.
To answer OP's question they can ry https://mypublicwifi.com/publicwifi/en/index.html as it appears to have an option to have a wifi hotspot without needing to be connected to the router using ethernet.
