Why did my games start working after I plugged in my ethernet cable to my pc?

[Anonymous]

Earlier today I got a new desk, and unplugged my pc to move around. I was trying to play my games from steam. Some of them wouldn't even launch, and my singer player games were super laggy, and they'd freeze. I realized that I forgot to plug my ethernet cable in, so I plugged it in, and everything is running fine now. Even fallout 4. A single player game ran a lot better than it did without an ethernet cable. I'm not complaining. Just kinda curios.

[laly520]

cuz there is direct, wired connection, so data can travel from your device, to the server, and back to the device without anything standing in its way

[jshm2]

It's not related.

Most likely cause is whatever was installing in the background eventually finished

[strateguy632]

cable sends and gets data, better than wifi.

[jahaims]

Hardwire is faster than wifi