plug on an Ethernet cable π
this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2023
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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.
wifi is not noticably slower. 2ms maybe
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.
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! Iβm 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.
Run Pingplotter to show where the latency is occuring. Also, test on wired connection.
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.
How far away are you to the server? thats the biggest thing that affects ping