What router for gaming?

[sam_son83]

Hi all,

Apologies if this message is in the wrong group.

Im a bit overwhelmed by the amount of routers and related mixed reviews on the internet so thought i would turn to this community for a bit of help.

Im sharing a house with a couple other people who stream movies online/ use phones etc and i seem to be really getting hit with slow internet and ping. Im using a Sky router which came with the broadband provider but i dont think its up to the job. (using Ethernet cable doesnt seem to help much)

Could somebody please recommend a good mid/high level router which i use.

Looking forward to hearing back

Many thanks in advance

Sam

 

[koreanoverlord]

This is most likely due to your internet bandwidth being eat up over the router being the issue.

 

[JamesSneed]

Does the router you have support for QOS? It is very likely your internet bandwidth but you can help some by setting QOS to say prioritize your gaming machines traffic. Having QOS set inst a magic bullet though.

 

[sam_son83]

Thanks for the quick reply.
For example if i play a game it gitters, lags and is virtually unplayable. Would a gaming router help with this?

 

[WarWolverineWarrior]

Get another router like ASUS RT-AC68U that limits bandwidth, set the router that you already got not to broadcast or turn wifi off. Make everyone connect to your new router and limit everyone to 12 MB/s cuz that's all you need to stream 1080p HD movies.

Having something like 50MB up/down or better would help alot.

 

[boosted1g]

People like to throw the work "gaming" out there for products despite there not being any real category.

A router that is good for gaming has QoS settings that allow you to give your games higher priority.
This wont go very far if you have 6 people in your house trying to use your 10mbps internet connection.

I love my Asus RT-AC68P and an AC68P or AC68U would be a great medium end router. But as others have stated, if your interent connection cant handle the demand then a router change wont fix that.

 

[JamesSneed]

Thanks for the quick reply.
For example if i play a game it gitters, lags and is virtually unplayable. Would a gaming router help with this?

Any router with QOS will help some so first check if yours has QOS. Gaming routers are just a marketing term as that isn't really a feature its all about QOS(Quality of Service) although some "gaming" routers will have most udp/tcp ports used by games prioritized via QOS out of the box.

Can you go to fast.com and report your bandwidth when nobody else is using the net? If you are not in the vicinity of 50Mbps then I would look into the cost of upgrading your internet bandwidth. I say this based off a "couple" other people streaming while you play games they would need around 15Mbps each for say Netflix streams.

The Asus routers mentioned are good choices.

 

[sam_son83]

Fast.com says its currently 6.4.
I will contact my service provider to see if this can be increased as it doesnt seem enough for the 3 people in the house when we are each doing our own thing

Thanks all for the suggestions and help

 

[JamesSneed]

Fast.com says its currently 6.4.
I will contact my service provider to see if this can be increased as it doesnt seem enough for the 3 people in the house when we are each doing our own thing

Thanks all for the suggestions and help

Yes completely agree I wouldn't worry about a new router just yet. Also, no idea what you are paying for but if you are paying for much more bandwidth than you are getting you usually can get a tech to come out to do some troubleshooting.