So lets see everyones connections using this
link - I bet alot of you have **** connections.
Quick straw poll. Have you, or a friend, ever bragged:
“I’ve just upgraded my Internet speed to X billion megabits per second so I’m now going to be unstoppable online”?
Yes? Thought so. Well you / they have fallen for one of the biggest myths in gaming. High bandwidth speeds do not mean you will have a faster gaming connection.
he truth is games only need a little bandwidth, which most homes have. When it comes to bandwidth speeds what actually matters is congestion on your line, which is caused by other people in your home when they hog the bandwidth, such as streaming an HD film or torrenting. This creates gridlock on your Internet connection and will cause your game to lag significantly.
A. Most routers have a feature called ‘QoS’, which is designed to prioritise the traffic on your network, e.g. gaming over other applications, and / or eliminate congestion. But most routers do a very poor job of this as they rely on technology that is over very dated and ineffective.
You can have connection issues if the ports required for the game are not open, meaning you don’t have an ‘Open NAT’. A strict or moderate NAT can cause you to be unable to connect to other players online.
Despite what you may have been told, playing on WiFi is NEVER good for gaming. It can be unstable and cause lag spikes, packet loss, jitter etc – basically it can cause a whole heap of headaches. So if you are serious about reducing lag/latency then playing on a wired connection is an essential step.
So again lets see how peoples
connections are, *** there is a reason games dont show peoples Pings/MS anymore.
I bet alot of you have bad ones. so maybe its you who is **** and just has congestion on their line causing people to not parry etc...