Changing DNS for lower ping
Also searched as: gaming dns · best dns for gaming · dns ping · dns latency
What it does
Switching to a third-party 'gaming DNS' expecting lower in-game latency.
The honest verdict
DNS answers one question — which IP a name points to — and it's asked when you connect, not while you play. Once you're in a match, packets flow straight to that IP; DNS isn't in the path anymore, so it can't lower ping. A faster resolver can shave a moment off page loads and server-list lookups, which is real — but it isn't in-game latency.
How Compy treats it
Compy won't recommend it. If you're curious anyway: change one thing at a time, measure it on your own rig, and revert unless it's clearly better — that loop is exactly what Compy is built around.
The Compy Blackbook holds 174 graded entries like this one, judged against your hardware — and every change it does make is reversible, with the receipt to prove it.
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