GearUp Booster: Should You Be Using It for Multiplayer?

GearUp Booster: Should You Be Using It for Multiplayer?
Filip Galekovic

By: Filip Galekovic

March 11, 2023

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Anybody who plays online multiplayer has, sooner or later, found themselves struggling with networking issues. And whether it's something as innocuous as a lag spike or as serious as a total freeze, it is always annoying. True enough, simple physics says that online multiplayer will never be quite as immediate and latency-free as, say, hotseat or local multiplayer. The issues we mentioned before aren't something you absolutely have to deal with, though, and services such as GearUp Booster might be your way out of the muck.

GearUp Booster is, essentially, a network optimization utility that's going to help you lower your ping and latency, and make your multiplayer matches that much easier to play. So, if you're in need of a networking refresh, we suggest you read up on what we've got to say.

Get started with GearUp Booster today!

What is GearUp Booster?

GearUp Booster is an all-in-one video game networking service dedicated to making it easier, simpler, and more enjoyable for you to play online video games. This includes helping you with:

  • reducing high ping and latency
  • improving game server connections and availability
  • reducing the odds of download throttling

Broadly speaking, the service's goal is just to make online gaming that much more accessible, no matter where you're from. Many of the problems outlined here won't be that big of a concern if you're from a country that's got local servers strewn about. If, however, you live in a country without any local servers, you will have connectivity issues sooner or later. Moreover, many games aren't even optimized for peer-to-peer networking in the first place, and that's where GearUp Booster comes into the picture.

How Does GearUp Booster Work?

GearUp Booster takes upon itself quite the task, then. Its goal is nothing short of remarkable because everyone knows that there's no fixing problems with infrastructure that you may or may not be dealing with, yourself. It's only sensible, then, that GearUp Booster focuses on the bits and pieces that its devs can affect. Anyone using GearUp Booster can expect the three following improvements, with that in mind:

  • improved download speeds on Wi-Fi networks
  • NAT optimization (if needed/applicable)
  • smart networking setup for massively improved latency rates

Some users will, of course, get more pronounced improvements depending on their real-world networking setup. It's all highly contextual, of course, but GearUp Booster is bound to help with packet loss and latency issues in almost every case. This, though, brings us to our next question...

Is GearUp Booster just a gaming-branded VPN?

Even though both the GearUp Booster and your garden-variety VPN do access your device's networking solution and solve regional restrictions, GearUp takes things a step beyond all that for gaming purposes. For example, whereas a VPN is entirely comprehensive and masks your entire network connection in one go, GearUp Booster only affects games. Building onto this, while a regular VPN will not dedicate any bandwidth to your games, GearUp Booster specifically optimizes your networking pipeline for gaming and gaming alone. No risk of downloads or video streams affecting your performance!

Finally, and perhaps most importantly for those who enjoy a variety of different online games, GearUp Booster will boost multiple online titles simultaneously without needing any additional input from you, the end user. Instead, it all works automatically and in the background, and it will switch over to different server locations as you jump from one game to another.

What Games Does GearUp Booster Work With?

GearUp Booster will work on more or less any online game you might be having trouble with. As outlined in the graphs shown above, DOTA2PUBGValorantApex Legends, and CS:GO/CS2 are all fully supported and working. The official GearUp Booster website also references Naraka: BladepointFortniteRobloxLeague of LegendsEscape From Tarkov, and a huge array of others, if you previously had any concerns about the application's veracity.

Even if you're not hugely affected by networking problems, you can expect a reasonable bump-up in your online gaming performance with GearUp Booster. For anyone experiencing truly egregious networking issues with no way to affect their infrastructure and/or the setup itself, though, this could be the solution you've been looking for.

Where to Get GearUp Booster?

As with anything else related to PC gaming, 2Game is here to be your one-stop shop. Naturally, we now also stock several different versions of the GearUp Booster subscription for you to choose from!

Of course, you're going to want to see how the service works in your particular case. As with anything networking-related, the specifics of performance and its relative improvements will vary from one game to another. If you'd like to give GearUp Booster a test run before splurging, you're going to want to stay tuned: giveaways are coming up on 2Game's social media, as well as via our KOL partners. Don't dawdle, then: Subscribing is as easy as pie on any and all of 2Game's official social media!

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