How to Optimize a Home Network for Gaming - ACT

When you play, an optimized network is the key to ensuring that your experience is as smooth as possible. Only so far will you go with hardware if your signal binds you to the outside world and chooses to act. Since electronics can be perfect, there are a million ways that anything can interfere. Network care can be pretty technical, but here are some of the most popular ways to make sure your network is configured for gaming.

Now let's look at how to optimize your home Wi-Fi network for gaming with the following choices and features. These will help you mitigate network problems, optimize efficiency, and hopefully get interrupt-free gaming sessions.

1. Upgrade your connection

   Upgrading to a higher plan gives everybody a little more space for breathing and less risk that one will want to hog the bandwidth over the other. Streaming or streaming video can be bandwidth-intensive and can reduce the pace you get when you play. It also makes it easier to manage unforeseen changes, whether it's system updates or new game patches.

2. Get the right hardware

   With the need for a reliable, safe and low latency broadband connection, serious players would take advantage of a wired connection. In the vast majority of instances, CAT5e or CAT6 Ethernet cables would be more secure and provide less interference. If you've got a lot of CAT5e lying around, use that. However, CAT6 provides less interference over longer distances than CAT5e does.

3. Router Quality of Service (QoS)

   Quality of Service is a router feature that gives priority to data packets for particular connected devices. It comes in handy when you have several users on the network, all of them performing network-intensive activities. With QoS allowed, you can use the network to prioritize your gaming PC or console over other devices. This forces your router to manage gaming data first before you think about anything else.

4. Keep drivers updated

   Drivers and firmware have a nasty habit of getting in the worst way, and they're too simple to verify. They're discreet though, which sometimes makes them forget. Check for updates on a regular basis so you don't get surprised when something unexpectedly stops working or when it starts causing a pause by installing a blue update.

In case you need a further boost to your gaming experience, you can consider using ACT Fibernet’s gaming booster packs. It’s speed boost boosts your current internet speed to 300Mbps for downloading games and loading high graphic textures and landscapes.

Similarly, Data boost is the additional data that a customer can claim on when they subscribe to their gaming pack in case of A-Game Basic it is 200GB per month and for A-Game Ultra it is 1800GB valid for 6 months.