[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":28},["ShallowReactive",2],{"page-content:en:guides\u002Fhow-to-lower-ping":3},{"home":4,"toolExplainer":4,"guide":5,"guideTitles":27,"legal":4},null,{"title":6,"description":7,"h1":8,"answer":9,"sections":10,"faqs":20},"How to Lower Ping — SpeedTestLab","Lower ping by shortening the path: Ethernet, nearby servers, no VPN, and less Wi‑Fi contention. You cannot ping past physics.","How to Lower Ping","You lower ping by removing extra hops and contention. Use Ethernet, pick a closer game or meeting region, pause uploads, and avoid a distant VPN. Geography still sets a floor.",[11,14,17],{"h":12,"p":13},"Local delay","Wi‑Fi power-save, DFS, and bufferbloat can add tens of milliseconds. A wired test is the honest baseline.",{"h":15,"p":16},"Application server","Ping to SpeedTestLab is not ping to a game cluster. Choose the region the app actually uses.",{"h":18,"p":19},"What will not help","A faster download plan does not shrink the speed of light. “Ping booster” apps that only change DNS rarely fix RTT.",[21,24],{"q":22,"a":23},"Is 20 ms ping good?","Yes for most interactive use to a nearby node.",{"q":25,"a":26},"Why is HTTP ping higher than ICMP?","HTTP includes stack and request overhead. We label it as HTTP RTT for that reason.",[],1793775154418]