Quick, take a guess, what's the first hop latency to your home wireless router?
Below 1ms, right? Yeah, you wish!
Below are results from a quick test on my home router (Linksys E1550). Some lessons learned:
- 3-8ms median
- very different latency tails on different channels (1,6,11)
- running in mixed mode helps tame the long tails (do it, if you can)
- all tests on 2.4Ghz, unfortunately E1550 can't do 5Ghz