Moving to a house in the country with your family can be an extremely rewarding experience. Getting away from the hustle and bustle of the city can do great things for your peace of mind, and as the European Environment Agency reports, clean country air can have real benefits for your health. Of course, moving away from urban infrastructure can also present challenges, especially if you and your family are fans of high-tech activities, like gaming.
Whether you want to all play together, or set up a system for the big-time gamers in your group, you’ll need to be prepared for the additional challenges that rural areas can present. It’s best to go in knowing what to expect so you can arrive prepared, rather than having to make more difficult and expensive changes later on.
Know Your Budget
Depending on the challenges you face, preparing a home for gaming can be simple, or it can be a costly and difficult process. To this end, it’s better to first know how much you have to work with via the sale of your previous property. If you’re stuck here and concerned about a long sales process, services like We Buy Any Home in Milton Keynes and other areas can help. These businesses can deliver free cash offers within minutes, guaranteeing sales and delivering funds in just seven days. This service is also available nationwide and can help provide confidence in the early days.
Readying Your Home
The first things you’ll have to consider when moving into a new home are your internet connection and your home networking solutions. If you’re gaming, you’ll want to aim for the gigabit speed standard if possible, and with unlimited bandwidth. This is technically overkill, but it will also provide more than enough speed to go around for multiple users, which is increasingly important in the age of large game downloads.
Note that gigabit is only really available with fibre, which might not be available in all rural areas yet. If that doesn’t suit you, then we would highly recommend a fast ASDL connection instead of a potentially faster wireless solution. Wireless can be unreliable, which is especially pronounced in platforms like Starlink. They might seem tempting, but these solutions should only be used as a last resort.
After that, you’ll need to ensure that your home network is adequately wired and set up. This can sometimes necessitate running cables under floors, or through ceilings if possible. As All About Cookies explains so well, wired connections are faster, they don’t lose information like Wi-Fi does, and they don’t degrade over short distances like Wi-Fi signals do. No serious gamer uses Wi-Fi, and this is unlikely to change.
The last element to consider is the power supply. Gaming devices can draw huge power loads, which might risk tripping circuit breakers if the load isn’t spread. Consider this when rewiring or installing gaming systems so you can avoid this potential hazard.
Once you’re all set up, you’ll be ready to start gaming. Remember to have fun, and to host game nights now and then so other players keep coming back for more. Who knows, you might even be able to challenge neighbours to find an ultimate local champion.
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