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Gaming router? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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) .

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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.