How many times have you come home from a long, arduous, day of work and wanted nothing more to hop on your favorite first-person shooter and relax? Fifteen minutes later frustration ensues. For some ungodly reason you’re rubber-banding all over the map, and no matter how many times you shoot the enemy, they never seem to die. But that doesn’t stop them from killing you in an instant.

No problem though right, at least not yet. You back out of the lobby and try again, hopefully, this time you get a good connection. But wouldn’t you know it – it’s happening again.

So what’s the problem here? Is it your internet connection? Or maybe it’s the WiFi connection (that’s what you get for not using hard-wired connections). In actuality, it’s probably neither of those, it’s more likely that you’re connecting to a server that is way too far, and your gaming experience is suffering because of it.

Why This Happens

Often times games have a matchmaking system that pairs you with people that are around your same skill level. Rather than giving you the best connection possible, they put you in lobbies with players most like you, regardless of how far away they are.

There’s nothing you can do about it either, it’s how the game was coded, so you just have to live with it. But…

There is a router on the market that can fix all of your connection issues. It’s called the Netduma Gaming Router.

Netduma Gaming Router

The router itself is an ordinary Nighthawk Pro router (although there are other options), it’s the software inside that makes the difference. And with this software, you’re problems with lag (the inexplicable kind) are all but gone.

Choose your servers

The most significant selling point for this device is the fact that you can decide what servers you want to connect to, and the distance that people can connect to you. Do you live in Los Angeles and only want to connect to people only within the southwest? You can do that, all you need to do is set your location and adjust the distances you’re willing to connect to.

Not only that, but the router shows you the path you’re taking to connect to servers, the people that are being rejected from your connection, it even shows your ping rate in real time.

VPN

The second largest selling point of the Netduma is its VPN capabilities. The gaming community has a serious issue with DDOS attacks. This product eliminates that with the VPN capabilities.

You can quickly turn VPN on and off, on whichever devices you want it on. And if you’re pc gaming, you use VPN exceptions. That way your IP address is only visible to the servers that you are playing on. This helps keep you protected, while still getting the best connection possible.

Anti-Flood Control

This is a service that most good routers have, but the interface is so much easier, allowing you to choose data caps for specific devices with a simple scroll. To do this, you’ll need to set your household bandwidth; which isn’t difficult at all, just go to speedcheck.org and input the results of the test into the corresponding boxes.

At that point you can choose which devices get the most amount of bandwidth. What that does, is prioritize gaming devices over Netflix, YouTube, or any other device connected to your internet. Of course, you can have it prioritize whatever device you want.

Host Analysis

This only works if you’re a PC gamer (for now at least), consoles have to use the ping rate. Host analysis allows you to look at and record the packet loss, send rate, latency, and server tick rate in real time, plus it saves and logs that data. You could also use it to catch people cheating or hacking on the game.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve wanted to chuck my controller out the window and watch it crash to the ground while fuming with anger. Part of that is probably on me (oh, and don’t act like you don’t do it too), but the other part is because I kept getting put in lobbies that had no business being in. Living in the Southeast United States, there is no reason I should be connecting with people in Germany.

But the Netduma router puts all that to rest. Now I’m only connecting to lobbies I choose, plus, I can control how much data each device in the house is using.

About the Author

Emily Jacobs is Happiness Ambassador for SpeedCheck.org

She loves to write latest technology trends and love to share her knowledge through her articles.