It has been a long day. The kids are asleep. Off to bed, break out the smartphone or tablet, and start your favourite game. But what’s this? At first everything was working fine, but suddenly the picture freezes up.The reason is not hard to figure out: The router signal is too weak. The resulting lags making gaming a lot less fun.
Whether you’re trying to play match-three puzzles like “Fishdom”, a managerial simulation like “Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp”, or a strategy game like "Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes", it only works if the WiFi signal is strong enough. But if you are in a room that is too far from the router, the gaming experience can shut down without warning. In a flat, the problem can be solved with a repeater, but in a house, you need a WiFi-capable devolo Magic adapter.
Ping, latency, lag? We will explain what these terms mean. Let’s take an online role-playing game as an example: you get together with other players in a team, form a guild, and explore extensive worlds. You fight against various other teams, meaning that lots of players are accessing the game server at the same time. This server essentially sends data packages so that the players perceive the big picture of what’s going on. If there are temporal differences during this transfer process, however, so-called lags arise. The game jumps, your character freezes for fractions of a second, and the other players may have passed you up. In the worst case, the connection is lost altogether ...
How can you figure out what the problem is?The best way is to use a speed test. These tools measure not only the internet connection’s available bandwidth, but also analyse the ping and thus provide information about latency. The following rule applies: The lower the ping value, the more stable the connection and the lower the latency (in milliseconds, or ms). Low latency means fewer lags.
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