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Does anyone play online games in dorms?

Trail Mixorz
By Trail Mixorz
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I'm going away to college in a month and with be bringing my desktop as well as a new y40 or y50. I'm going to be running my pc over ethernet and supposedly that gives me good connection/ping, but for my laptop I don't want to plug in wired so I'm going to be bringing my own router to put next to my pc.

Anyway, I know every college in the usa is probably different when it comes to internet, but my question is will i be able to play csgo and other online games with decent ping in my dorm?

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Probably not.

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if its anything like my university youll get 40 down and about 30 up with fantastic ping. so I say yes!

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If a browser game with pvp and rankings counts as an online game then yes I do play online games in dorms (and libraries, and classrooms, and the university staff room)...

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In my dorms, I had a wired Internet connection which was amazing. I had a ping of 5ms and was able to download stuff at nearly 6-7MB/s. This however is pretty specific to the area which you live. For example here in Europe we generally have a better Internet connection than in the US, I have no idea why though.  

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My internet at college is better than my home. On school Wi-Fi I get 40Mb/s up and down (actually slightly more up than down...?) with a 7ms ping. Not bad. I have yet to build a gaming rig and try it out for serious FPS gaming though.

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I'm going away to college in a month and with be bringing my desktop as well as a new y40 or y50. I'm going to be running my pc over ethernet and supposedly that gives me good connection/ping, but for my laptop I don't want to plug in wired so I'm going to be bringing my own router to put next to my pc.

Anyway, I know every college in the usa is probably different when it comes to internet, but my question is will i be able to play csgo and other online games with decent ping in my dorm?

 

Well if your school has good WiFi in the dorms, you'll be fine. Depends on the school.

But seriously go wired for gaming. At my school I was able to download gigantic game files (7GB+) in mere minutes on Ethernet.

Git Gud.

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I hope so!

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