Shralpy39

That would be acceptable for FPS for me, and I know the games I play don't use a ton of data. But apparently I don't get the same speeds! We have looked at having our landlady use a hotspot to stream her videos and leaving me to use the internet connection for myself, that may be the best solution here....

Currently I am connected with a wire, only feet away from our router/modem combo. I switched to wired to increase my chances of success! I will run that suggested program next time they are streaming and bogging down the connection and report back. I get about 32ms in games when no one else is using the connection, it just gets totally hosed the second they're watching something upstairs. If I am downloading game updates etc., the rate is about 800 kb/s when I am the only one using it.

Hey LTT Community, I have a question about using mobile data for PC gaming. I am a northern California resident and renting a downstairs unit in a house in the Bay Area. Our local ISPs are Comcast and AT&T, and our house is signed up with AT&T. At the moment, the fastest package offered in our neighborhood is 10 Mpbs, which is terrible by today's standards. I play PC games (PUBG/Overwatch/Fortnite) and as soon as our landlady upstairs is streaming Netflix and on her phone, my ping is close to 200ms in games. We get about 6.5 Mbps download on our current plan. She is not interested in switching to Comcast due to past experiences, and at the moment Google Fiber hasn't reached our neighborhood. I am looking for other options. Recently I realized I could tether my Samsung Galaxy S7 to my computer via USB cable and use that for a connection. While the download/upload speeds are much faster than our current set up, I still get about 200-230ms in games, so it is not a feasible alternative to using our normal network. Why are download/upload speeds so fast using this, but the ping is so high? Do you guys have any suggestions for me being able to use mobile data to game with less latency? I would be happy to add $20-30 bucks to my phone plan if it meant I could game whenever I wanted. I could definitely use some educating in this department, any tips would be super helpful. P.S. I saw Linus's video about gaming on a camping trip or in the woods, and he had some kind of Telus USB stick that he could "load with data" for a few days to game. Is there any U.S. equivalent to this? And does it solve the latency issue?