Is your connection eligible for cloud gaming?
Thirty seconds, in this tab, no sign-up. The test times the journey between your device and Paris, measures how steady your line is, and tells you frankly what to expect.
Eligibility test
About thirty seconds, nothing to install, no sign-up.
The test times 24 round trips between your device and Paris, then downloads 6 MB to read your bandwidth. It records neither your IP address nor any identifier.
How to read your eligibility
The breakdown of every millisecond, and the settings ranked by payoff, are in the latency guide.
What is cloud gaming eligibility?
It's your connection's ability to carry a console's picture in real time. Three numbers decide it: the round-trip time to the server, how consistent that time is, and the download speed. Under 100 ms of total latency, everything plays comfortably. Between 100 and 140 ms, adventure and open-world games play without any bother, and competitive shooters start to feel it. Beyond that, you need to fix the line before playing.
Do I need fibre to be eligible?
No. Consistency matters more than technology: a stable ADSL line can perform better than a shared fibre line at peak times. Fixed 4G or 5G also works if jitter stays low. 25 Mbit/s download is enough, 40 Mbit/s gives you some margin, and a 1 Gbit/s connection adds nothing more beyond that.
What exactly does this test measure?
Three things: the round-trip time between your device and Paris, jitter, meaning how much that time varies from one round trip to the next, and your download speed. The median is used rather than the average, so a single unlucky round trip doesn't skew the result.
Why add 45 ms to the result?
Because the network is only part of the journey. The console takes 16 to 33 ms to render a frame, encoding takes 5 to 12 ms, and decoding at your end takes 10 to 30 ms. These 45 ms are a conservative estimate of that fixed portion, stated upfront rather than hidden.
Does my screen matter?
A lot. A TV in Cinema mode adds up to 80 ms on its own, more than the entire network journey. Turn on Game mode on the input you're using: it's the single most worthwhile setting in the whole chain.
Does the test record anything?
Three numbers and the approximate city provided by the router, with no IP address or identifier. These readings are used to know where visitors are and what their lines can handle, which decides where the consoles are placed.
My result is poor, what should I do?
In order of impact: switch to Ethernet, or failing that 5 GHz Wi-Fi rather than 2.4 GHz, stop any downloads in progress, plug the controller in via USB, and turn on the screen's Game mode. Jitter is easier to fix than distance.
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