Used one for about a year. No. I play stuff online alot, so its important to me. No slowdowns. It has nothing to do with your ping.
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Geodad@lemm.ee 5 months agoDoes pi hole slow down games?
chaoticnumber@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
In fact, a good pihole will speed things up.
smeg@feddit.uk 5 months ago
What games are you playing that regularly send out lots of DNS requests to different domains?
Geodad@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I mainly play Final Fantasy XIV. I assume they don’t hit up DNS, but they’re not open source, so we can only hope they don’t.
smeg@feddit.uk 5 months ago
My (very basic) understanding of a pihole is that it calls out to an upstream DNS provider (such as the one you’d be using without a pihole) and caches everything it gets back, meaning that it’s only making new requests when you’re querying a domain it hasn’t queried before. I can’t think of any reason a game would need to constantly be accessing different domains (except maybe for some kind of server browser?)
nickiam2@aussie.zone 5 months ago
No, unless the game you’re playing is trying to download ads then you might have some minor issues but it shouldn’t effect online multiplayer.