Is PUBG Down or Is It Your Connection?
Dropped from a match right as the circle closes? PUBG needs a constant back-and-forth with its servers, and when your internet connection has a brief gap where nothing arrives, the game gives up rather than wait. Phones handing off between Wi-Fi and 4G/5G cellular mid-game do this a lot.
Speedify uses Wi-Fi, 4G/5G cellular, Ethernet, Starlink and satellite internet connections at the same time, so the match survives one of them faltering. Speedify can only keep you online through a drop when it has two or more internet connections to work with, for example Wi-Fi plus your phone’s 4G/5G cellular. On a single connection, Speedify works as an encrypted VPN and cannot stop that connection from dropping. Speedify cannot shorten the route to the game server, but with two or more connections in Redundant Mode it sends each packet over every connection and uses the copy that arrives first, so your ping follows whichever connection is faster at that moment. The sections below cover how to check whether PUBG itself is down, and what changes once you play with Speedify on a home or restricted network.
How to Keep PUBG Connected with Speedify
- Download Speedify on the phone or computer you play PUBG on (Windows, macOS, iOS, Android).
- Open Speedify and create a free account (the free tier includes 5 GB per month), or sign in.
- Give Speedify a second internet connection: on a phone, keep Wi-Fi on and turn on 4G/5G cellular too; on a computer on Wi-Fi, plug in Ethernet or share your phone’s connection over USB (on a Mac, this works with an iPhone and many Android phones).
- Connect. Speedify uses both connections at once and moves your traffic to the working one when one drops.
- Launch PUBG and play as usual.
Why You Get Connection Issues with PUBG
PUBG players around the world are complaining about not being able to connect to the game sometimes. Why does this happen?
On one hand, this may originate in PUBG server issues. To make sure nothing is wrong with those, check their X (formerly Twitter) account for announcements about maintenance and server issues.
However, if you get PUBG connection issues, most likely it’s your connectivity you have to investigate. Online games are very sensitive to unreliable internet connections. Even though the contract with your ISP states that you should have a certain speed and uptime, things are not always like that. Any temporary network issue on the ISP’s side can hinder your PUBG experience.
The “Connection failed” error usually appears when PUBG cannot reach its servers at all: during server maintenance or an outage, after a game update you have not installed yet, or when your own connection drops while the game is logging in. Check for maintenance announcements first, update the game, then restart it and your router.
Fix PUBG Connection Issues with Speedify
Whether you are running PUBG on your computer or on your smartphone, Speedify helps when the problem is an unreliable internet connection: Speedify runs a second internet connection alongside the first, so one connection faltering does not end your match.
By default, computers and smartphones only connect to the internet through one connection at a time. You are either connected through a cellular signal, through Wi-Fi, or through Ethernet. Speedify allows your device to connect to the internet using multiple internet connections simultaneously. Speedify adds bandwidth and failover, which can help fix connectivity issues in PUBG.
On your phone, Speedify lets you use Wi-Fi and 4G/5G cellular together, and you can set a data cap for cellular in Speedify so you do not go over your plan. If you’re playing PUBG on your computer, you can combine your home Wi-Fi with a wired Ethernet connection, a phone tethered over USB (on a Mac, an iPhone or a supported Android phone), a USB 4G/5G modem or, with a second Wi-Fi adapter, a public Wi-Fi network. Consoles do not run Speedify, so if you’re playing from your game console, you can share the Speedify connection over Wi-Fi to your gaming device using a Windows PC, or use a router running Speedify.
Speedify also has auto failover. When one of your connections becomes weak or spotty, for example when you’re playing PUBG on your commute to work, Speedify moves all the data to the working connection in milliseconds and keeps the same public IP address, so the game server does not see a new address. Once the other connection is available again, Speedify automatically adds it back into the mix.
Fix Connection Issues with PUBG when Internet Is Restricted
Speedify encrypts all traffic from your device, like a VPN. On a restricted network such as a school or workplace, the network then sees only an encrypted connection to a Speedify server, not the game, so you may be able to play PUBG while running Speedify. Check your school’s or employer’s rules first; some networks block VPN connections too.
If you want to fix PUBG connection issues, download Speedify and give it a second internet connection.
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