Best Settings for Gaming

[Fabian the German]

I want to know from you what i can do at the settings of my Intel (R) I211 Gigabit Network Connection to max the speed without considerations of the other hardware.

[Technomancer__]

just change your dns to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 (google)

[LukeSavenije]

or 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 (Cloudflare and APNIC)

[Lurick]

Considering DNS does nothing more than resolve names that aren't cached locally that won't speed up much of anything after the first couple of times resolving a name to an IP, setting it to anything doesn't make any difference in terms of download or game speed, snappiness, etc.

 

 

As for the question, outside of QoS on the router, there really isn't much that needs to be changed that will impact performance by any noticable amount on the NIC itself for gaming.

[N3tw0rk1ng]

the amount of bandwidth a game loads to join a server is less than 2mb, Use your main router as dns server and point to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4

that way the router will cache the dns and resolve website less that 2ms faster lol, but for joining a sever or playing locally it will not make any difference.

Just make sure the you have low latency and no jitter.