Find out what is actually wrong with your game connection

What the test measures

Four numbers that describe how your connection behaves under real conditions.

Typical latency

How long a round trip takes most of the time.

Jitter (95th percentile)

How much that number jumps. This is what makes a game feel bad.

Timeout samples

Frames that never came back during a 20 Hz tick-loop test.

Increase under load

How much latency rises while the connection is busy — the it-only-lags-at-night case.

Measure, diagnose, then fix

Three steps, in this order. Most people start at step three and pay for something they did not need.

1. Run the free test

   Latency, jitter, timeouts and latency under load, calculated in your browser.

2. Read the verdict

   Unstable, stable-but-slow, or healthy. Each one points at a different fix.

3. Pay only if the evidence says so

   Route tools help with one specific problem. Everything else is local, and free to fix.

What it does not measure

The questions players actually ask

Collected from the forums where these things get discussed, answered with measurements instead of marketing.

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  High ping in games but a fast speed test: why the two numbers disagree

  A 900 Mbps line can still be terrible for gaming. Speed and latency are measured against different things, and only one of them describes a match.

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  Ping spikes only in the evening: what is actually happening on your line

  Evening latency is not random. It is either congestion in your own home, congestion in your neighbourhood, or the route your provider takes at peak hours.

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  Does QoS actually reduce ping? What it fixes and what it cannot

  QoS is the most over-promised and under-explained setting on a home router. Here is what it does for latency, and the one number you must set correctly.

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  Are game boosters safe? Bans, overlays and what they actually touch

  A straight answer on ban risk, what a route optimiser does on your machine, and the questions worth asking before installing anything.

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  Packet loss in only one game: what that actually tells you

  Loss that appears in one game and nowhere else is a clue, not a contradiction. Here is how to read it before spending money.

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  Does a VPN lower your ping? Usually not — and here is when it can

  A VPN adds a hop, so the honest default answer is no. But there are narrow cases where a different path beats your provider default route.

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  How to lower ping on Wi-Fi: the settings that matter and the ones that do not

  Wi-Fi is not automatically bad for gaming. A band choice, a channel and one cable move more than any "optimiser" app.

Start with the free fix

Most high-ping complaints turn out to be local: a wireless link that drops frames, an uplink saturated by a backup, or a router with no queue management. Those are free to fix, and no subscription changes them.

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  High ping in Valorant: is it you, your ISP or the server region?

  A step-by-step way to tell an unstable local connection apart from a distant server region, using free tools first and paid ones only when the evidence supports it.

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  Rubber-banding and packet loss in Marvel Rivals: what to check first

  Rubber-banding is usually a lost-packet problem, and the cause is usually local. Here is the order to check things in, and how to prove where the loss is.

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  How to judge a latency tool before you buy one

  A checklist for evaluating game boosters and route optimisers: what they can fix, what they cannot, what to test during the trial, and the marketing claims that should make you close the tab.