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<h2 style="text-align:center" id="tag-2"><strong>What is a good ping for gaming?</strong></h2>

<p style="text-align:justify">Speaking of a good ping for gaming or any other activities,</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Well,</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Lower pings are always better than higher pings for sure.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Lower pings mean it’ll take less time for data packets to move between your devices and the gaming servers.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Ping is measured in milliseconds (ms),</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">So the lower the ping ms value, the better the connection.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">But what ms ping is perfect for online gaming?</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">To be honest, it’s hard to have a definite answer to this question since “what is a good ping”</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Depends on the games, the types of games, and the types of gaming consoles you play.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">According to hp.com, ping rates of 50ms - 100ms range from good to average ping,</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">While ones higher than 150ms are considered high ping for gaming.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Pings of 20 ms and less are low ping and, well, exceptional ping.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">In the next part of this post, MySpeed is going to share with you the internet requirements for some types of games and consoles, which, of course, include the required ping rates;</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Let’s take a look.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><img alt="Good ping for gaming" src="http://gospeedcheck.com/filemanager/data-images/What-is-a-good-ping-for-online-gaming_2.jpg" style="display:block; height:619px; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; width:640px"></p>

<p style="text-align:center">Good ping for gaming</p>

<h2 style="text-align:center" id="tag-21"><strong>Internet requirements for different types of games</strong></h2>

<p style="text-align:justify">FPS (First-person shooters) games, real-time strategy games, MMO (Massively multiplayer online) games, RPG (Role-playing games), each one of them requires different ping rate, download and upload speeds.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Following are the details.</p>

<h3 style="text-align:justify" id="tag-25"><strong>RPG</strong></h3>

<ul>
<li style="text-align:justify">Ping rate: 150 ms or less</li>
	<li style="text-align:justify">Download speed: 1.5 Mbps or above</li>
	<li style="text-align:justify">Upload speed: 1 Mbps or above</li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align:justify" id="tag-31"><strong>MMO games</strong></h3>

<ul>
<li style="text-align:justify">Ping rate: 150 ms or less</li>
	<li style="text-align:justify">Download speed: 3 Mbps or higher</li>
	<li style="text-align:justify">Upload speed: 0.5 Mbps or higher</li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align:justify" id="tag-37"><strong>FPS games</strong></h3>

<ul>
<li style="text-align:justify">Ping rate: 16 ms or less</li>
	<li style="text-align:justify">Download speed: 30 Mbps or more</li>
	<li style="text-align:justify">Upload speed: 1 Mbps or more</li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align:justify" id="tag-43"><strong>Real-time strategy games</strong></h3>

<ul>
<li style="text-align:justify">Ping rate: 150 ms or less</li>
	<li style="text-align:justify">Download speed: 3 Mbps or faster</li>
	<li style="text-align:justify">Upload speed: 0.5 Mbps or faster</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align:justify">Next, let’s check out the <a href="https://www.streamscheme.com/internet-speed-for-gaming/" target="_blank">internet speed requirements</a> for different gaming systems.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><img alt="Good ping for game genres" src="http://gospeedcheck.com/filemanager/data-images/What-is-a-good-ping-for-online-gaming_3_ok.jpg" style="display:block; height:1600px; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; width:640px"></p>

<p style="text-align:center"><em>Good ping for game genres</em></p>

<h2 style="text-align:center" id="tag-55"><strong>Internet requirements for different gaming systems</strong></h2>

<p style="text-align:justify">Each game genre will have different internet requirements.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">It’s not enough.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Make sure your network satisfies the internet requirements for a specific gaming platform.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Here are the minimum requirements for Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PlayStation 4.</p>

<table class=" table table-bordered">
<thead><tr>
<th> </th>
			<th>PlayStation 4</th>
			<th>Xbox One</th>
			<th>Nintendo Switch</th>
		</tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Maximum ping rate</td>
			<td style="text-align:center">N/A</td>
			<td style="text-align:center">150 ms</td>
			<td style="text-align:center">N/A</td>
		</tr>
<tr>
<td>Minimum download speed</td>
			<td style="text-align:center">2 Mbps</td>
			<td style="text-align:center">3 Mbps</td>
			<td style="text-align:center">3 Mbps</td>
		</tr>
<tr>
<td>Minimum upload speed</td>
			<td style="text-align:center">2 Mbps</td>
			<td style="text-align:center">0.5 Mbps</td>
			<td style="text-align:center">1 Mbps</td>
		</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p style="text-align:justify">Note that these are just minimum requirements.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">For consistent gaming experiences, it’s good to have lower ping rates and faster download and upload speeds.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">As per highspeedinternet.com, internet recommendations for playing games are</p>

<ul>
<li style="text-align:justify">5+ Mbps for download speed</li>
	<li style="text-align:justify">3+ Mbps for upload</li>
	<li style="text-align:justify">50ms - 100 ms for ping latency.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align:justify">If your ping is high, don’t worry, there are various tips on <a href="https://gospeedcheck.com/article/how-to-fix-high-ping-in-online-games-309" target="_blank">how to fix high ping in online games</a>.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">MySpeed will share with you helpful tips in other posts. Check it out.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><img alt="PS4" src="http://gospeedcheck.com/filemanager/data-images/What-is-a-good-ping-for-online-gaming_4.jpg" style="display:block; height:360px; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; width:640px"></p>

<p style="text-align:center"><em>PS4</em></p>
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