Tips For Upgrade Your Skill

Say Goodbye to Lag (Hopefully)

The constant barrage of gun shots and the sounds of exploding flash bangs and grenades are suddenly punctuated by a long pause of silence, and you find yourself isolated from your team mates and deep in enemy territory. Quickly and instinctively, you seek refuge in a room. Gun in hand, you quickly position yourself to face the door as you wait for your enemy to enter. Here are some tips that can hopefully help enhance your online gaming experience, but first it is important to understand what and why lag occurs.

Multiplayer online games have gained lots of popularity, especially with the different features and packaging they come with making the gaming experience nothing more than exciting. Here are a few things that you can consider doing to improve performance and the overall gaming experience you get from your preferred game.


Upgrade your hardware

If you want to play online with good performance you need to upgrade your computer to minimum requirment the game, or you can make it bigger than minimum requirment
Minimize the number of users

You can check who is using your network by accessing your router’s setup page on your browser. If someone is streaming HD video or using the same network to download large files, performance will inevitably suffer, so get them off your network (for the time being, at least).
 Close all programs connected to the Internet

Your Internet bandwidth is a finite resource and if you were to run multiple programs that require Internet access at the same time, performance will degrade. You might have experienced this if you tried to download multiple files at once - download speeds will invariably suffer. You can check what program is using up your bandwidth by using the Task Manager on Windows PCs and the Activity Monitor on Macs.

Keep your system upgraded and updated

Sometimes all you need is to make a few graphic card changes to enjoy a better online gaming experience. Check out for recent graphic drivers from your existing card manufacturer for updates that will offer you additional performance. Tip 5 - Consider a server near you


Some games will give you the freedom to pick servers. A server that has measures to reduce latency, bad router hops and speed deviation may prove to be more reliable.


QoS settings

If your network is shared by many users, and for whatever reason you cannot get these other users to stop doing whatever they are doing, QoS or Quality of Service, can help by prioritizing certain traffic over others. Use a website such as Speedtest.net to find out your download and upload speeds and enter roughly 85% of that into your router's QoS setting. You should also see a list of options below that allows you to change the priorities of the service types or applications. This would differ from router to router. Furthermore, if you want to add a specific game to the QoS rules list, then specific IP and port settings are required and these differ from game to game. We suggest looking up the forums of your favorite games to properly set it up for QoS to work.