[RussEfarmer]

This is an April Fools joke. If you follow this guide, god help you.

Hi,
Ping, latency, or how long it takes a piece of data to be sent from you to the server (and visa versa), has been almost the sole contributing factor to a poor multiplayer experience, tied with framerate. People in countries other than the United States suffer from high ping trying to connect to popular video game servers located in the United States, and the other way around. You may also have high ping from poor quality internet service, or a poor quality connection to your router.

So, how can I fix high ping to enjoy playing online games more?

Switch Internet Plans

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Often, we upgrade our internet service plan for increased speed so we can do things like upload YouTube videos and stream high definition video without interruption. However, what isn't considered is that when you have so much bandwidth available, when you send data to somewhere on the internet, it can have a hard time finding its way back to you, leading to a higher round trip time, and as a result, your ping is higher.

The solution to this is to step your internet service plan down to an economy package to decrease your internet bandwidth. This improves how efficiently packets are routed to and from your home, lowering latency.

Place your WiFi router correctly

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WiFi is the most common method of connecting computers to the internet. By using a wireless access point, or WAP (usually a router), we can send traffic back and forth wherever we want through thin air. A large part of optimizing how easily we can send data from the computer to our access point by either buying a more powerful access point or by placing our access point in the correct location in our home.

The cheapest option to improve your WiFi connection is to pick a good location for your access point. Ideally, your access point is going to be somewhere in your home, but not too close to the computer to prevent the signal from overwhelming your computer's wifi antenna (2-3 bars is good). If possible, move your access point near your microwave oven. The electronics inside the oven does a good job at making sure the antennas in your access point don't drift out of their designed frequency, increasing the efficiency of your access point and improving signal quality.

Optimize your computer's background tasks

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Your computer's background tasks have a large effect on network performance. Having tasks running in the background using your network vs no background tasks makes a huge difference in your network latency. With Windows 8 and 10, you can use the task manager to see individual tasks using your network.

Optimally, you want a few tasks in the background downloading/uploading data to the internet, such as Netflix or Steam. This takes advantage of a trick in your router called Quality of Service (QoS), a feature that makes sure that high priority data such as game traffic is processed before lower priority traffic such as video streaming. By downloading extra data, we force the router's CPU to clock up to a higher speed to meet demand, which means that individual packets are processed much faster than normal.

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I hope this guide helped you lower network latency, and I hope you enjoy playing all of your games more because of it.
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