Your in-game ping depends on three things: your distance to our Montreal datacenter, your local ISP routing, and your connection type (wired vs Wi-Fi).
Realistic ping targets (in-game UDP):
- < 30 ms — Excellent: Competitive shooters, fighting games, fast-paced PvP feel instant
- 30–60 ms — Good: Smooth for nearly every game including Minecraft PvP, Rust, ARK, CS2
- 60–100 ms — Fair: Perfectly fine for survival/co-op (Valheim, Palworld, Project Zomboid)
- 100–150 ms — Playable: Most games still feel responsive; competitive titles may notice it
- > 150 ms — High: Workable for relaxed PvE, less ideal for reaction-based PvP
How to lower your ping:
- Use a wired Ethernet connection — Wi-Fi can add 10–40 ms and cause jitter
- Close bandwidth-heavy apps (streaming, large downloads, cloud backups)
- If you're on a VPN, disable it — VPNs often route through distant exit nodes
- Check that no one else on your network is saturating the upload pipe
If your measured ping seems higher than the ranges above, open a support ticket with a traceroute and we'll investigate routing on our side.