Your Internet Connection Makes and Breaks the Gaming Experience
Gaming today is all about playing online - long gone are the days when you'd enjoy only single player missions. And it can even be done through the browser. There are two major issues that can hinder your gaming experience:
- your hardware - if it does not meet the recommended game requirements.
- your Internet connection - if it's slow and unreliable.
It's simple when it comes to hardware - you'll know from the beginning what to expect from the game. The real issue is with Internet connectivity, because it may work fine when you start the game, but have glitches as you're close to defeating the opposing team.
This article will share a simple way on how to improve your gaming experience and get better connectivity.
Use Speedify to increase your bandwidth: Combine internet connection sources like WiFi, 4G, 5G, & Starlink together
Combine multiple internet connections to fix slow Internet
Speedify is the only app that seamlessly combines all of your connections, including WiFi, 4G, 5G, Ethernet, and Starlink, into one stronger connection to keep you online and secure.
In most cases, Speedify will automatically detect and start using any available Internet connections on your device while intelligently distributing your online traffic between them for optimal performance. If you need help we have quick start guides available for most common set ups.
Combine personal hotspots for better bandwidth and signal strength
Speedify's Pair & Share is a feature that enables you to connect to multiple hotspots at the same time and wirelessly share LTE, 4G, and 5G cellular connections back and forth between multiple Speedify users on the same local network to create a faster, more reliable connection for everyone.
For the first time, it's possible to share cellular data between multiple devices, including PCs, Macs, iPhones and Androids. Use multiple phones as hotspots for internet access and get increased bandwidth and mobile failover for all paired devices.
How to Improve Your Gaming Experience: Use 2 or More Connections at Once
Do not mistake this with switching between connections! As all operating systems work - when the default connection drops or is disconnected, the system switches (after a while) to another active connection, if there's one. We're talking here about channel bonding / link aggregation.
Combining multiple Internet connections is where a bonding VPN service like Speedify shines! Is your WiFi too slow and generates high latency? Do you have another Internet source that you can use? Then you can use Speedify to combine those at once.
Check out these guides for Mac and Windows on how you can add more connections to improve your gaming experience. And don't worry if you have a cap on cellular data or other metered connections. With Speedify you can control how to use those.
Try the UDP Transport Mode instead of default TCP
Are you experiencing slow speeds or high latency when gaming, even while running Speedify? Try setting your transport mode to UDP.
Also, setting your bonding mode to Speed Mode or Redundant Mode will improve your gaming latency. For any other speed-related issues while using Speedify, check out this article. You will definitely get to the bottom of how to improve your gaming experience.
Getting a Better Gaming Experience with Speedify - Test Results
First person shooters (FPS) are the most ping-sensitive games out there. That's why we decided to briefly test two such popular games, with and without Speedify:
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare on a Windows PC
- PUBG on an Android smartphone
The test setup involved using a low speed Wi-Fi connection with high response time (ping) when going without Speedify. Then, we combined that with a high-speed cellular 4G Internet connection using Speedify's fastest server option with default settings. And here are the results:
75 ms ping on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare without Speedify's channel bonding
42 ms latency on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare using Speedify channel bonding - that's a 44% improvement!
840 ms ping on PUBG without Speedify's channel bonding
48 ms ping on PUBG with Speedify's channel bonding - 94% better!
How to improve your gaming experience? Start with your Internet connectivity - get a solid one using Speedify!
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