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.
with 20-40 ping, I suppose you are already using a LAN cable, if not, use one. WiFi is slower.
FTTH (fiber to the home) internet can help a lot too (as opposed to cable or DSL), but 20-40 is already not bad.
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 👌
Is your pc directly connected to the router. Anything in between adds latency. A standard switch shouldnt give more than 1ms on top. A higher priced router wont give you much if gaming is the only data usage at a time. Any standard router shouldnt struggle with such loads.
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.
