Showing posts with label lower game ping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lower game ping. Show all posts

Friday, October 2, 2015

How to lower ping in Dota 2

Dota 2 is a multiplayer online arena video game developed by Valve Corporation. Dota 2 offers the highest video game competition bonus. Although lots of players indulging themselves in this game, the bonus is only for winners. You may have pay a lot on your Internet because to play this game require a fast enough network to enable you to play smoothly. Using VPN service to play the online games is the best way to reduce ping. Especially when all the Dota 2 servers are located outside of your country, you have to play on a server from another region.


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Here's a list of IP addresses of Dota2 servers around the globe.
Region                   Server Location             IP Address               
US West                Washington, USA          192.69.96.1
US East                 Sterling, USA                 208.78.164.1
Europe West          Luxembourg                  146.66.152.1
Europe East           Vienna, Austria              146.66.155.1
SE Asia                  Singapore                      103.28.54.1/103.10.124.1
South America       Brazil                               209.197.29.1/209.197.25.1
Russia                   Stockholm, Sweden       146.66.156.1
Australia                Syndey, Australia           103.10.125.1
South Africa          Cape Town                     197.80.200.1/196.38.180.1

You won't get high ping if play with local region server. But what if all Dota 2 servers locate outside of your region. You might meet lags in game, which will affect the game. Well now you can check your ping to all of Dota 2 servers before selecting which Server to play. 
  1. Click on Start Menu.
  2. Type cmd and hit Enter. This should open a command prompt.
  3. Type in the command:ping <ip-address> and hit Enter. Eg: ping 192.69.96.1
  4. The average time will be the approximate ping.

If all servers give high ping, resort to a VPN. 
You choose choose some VPNs that provide free accounts. You can check ping on these trial version. If the speed not meet your needs, you don't need to pay for it. Here I would like to recommend FlyVPN, containing servers in different locations and offer free VPN accounts everyday. Below is a brief guide on how to setup VPN.
  1. Download FlyVPN client from https://www.flyvpn.com/download.
  2. After installed, run it, a window will pop up require to enter account. Use their free VPN username and password. 
  3. Click the server you want to use, then tap Connect button. The servers in these two accounts are different, so login with another trial account if you can't find the server you need.
  4. Once connected, you can check ping with the method mentioned above.

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

How to lower ping in games

Players are all desire to find a solution to almost lagless gameplay. Having a ping of 38ms means that your actions are 38 milliseconds late. However, the average human reaction time is around 150ms, so having a ping around this value is like having a 0 ping. The ping between 100 and 180 is pretty decent for online gaming. But it is always better to try to lower game ping if you can. In my previous article, I recommended use a VPN to reduce ping in a game. Below are a series of other solutions to follow.
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1. Make sure no other programs are running in the background. That means close open programs, exit programs on the system tray that you do not need, not close every process on task manager.
2. Upload is more important than Download. So, when it comes to online gaming always choose an internet plan with a better upload speed.
3. Get your phone and other devices off the wifi. Other devices are stealing the bandwidth meant for your gaming, even if they are doing nothing.
4. Find and change to the best DNS server for you, to speed up overall internet access. Public DNS are usually helpful.
5. Clean the inside of your computer.
6. Install a 3rd party network mointoring service. The program will run in the background and give your game full priority of bandwidth over other programs.
7. Download a gamebooster, which temporarily stops process and services that are not need.
8. Use an Ethernet cord instead of wifi, that makes your connection much more reliable and faster. Use a new form of wifi standard for a more reliable wifi connection.
9. Restart the modem or router. Just unplug it, keep it that way for 5+ seconds, then plug it back in.
10. Power off the network for several minutes before start of the play if it gets heated.
11. Optimize Internet connection with SG TCP Optimizer. It is a free program for Windows. The tool uses advanced algorithms to find the best TCP Window for your specific connection speed.
12. Add your game to your firewall's "Allowed" list. This will reduce the time that it takes for game-related information to leave and enter your network.
13. Disable unnecessary drivers and windows services.
14. Turn off your antivirus's updater off.
15. Play on local or nearer servers. The closer you are physically to the server, the lower ping you will get.