I play a lot of Fortnite and usually run about 20-40 ping and was wondering how to reduce this. I was thinking about a gaming router but they seem very pricey. If a gaming router isn’t the way is there other methods to reduce my ping. I have very limited knowledge on this subject, thanks.
How far away are you to the server? thats the biggest thing that affects ping
20-40 isn’t that bad. Since you are looking at ‘gaming’, assuming you are on Wifi. The best method is to wire your PC. Anything ‘gaming’ is all marketing to up the price.
Run Pingplotter to show where the latency is occuring. Also, test on wired connection.
Hmm… What kind of Internet connectivity do you have? I just measured 275/274 Mbs and 6.89 ms ping on my 10 year old iPad Air over my 5 GHz WiFi connection! I’m paying for a 250/250 Mbs Fiber connection (FTTH) .
To where did you measure the ping? With such a low latency, it almost sounds like a speedtest within your providers network, which can differ a lot from real world experience on game servers outside your providers network.
Even dns.google and one.one.one.one give me about 5ms advantage to any game server.
plug on an Ethernet cable 👌