GameRail is a nationwide private network specifically designed to minimize latency and improve a computer gamer's online experience. The network carries only game-related traffic dedicated to local cross-connecting by interconnecting directly with local broadband access providers as well as with game (server) hosting companies.

Through the use of the GameRail client, gamers connect locally to the network allowing them to successfully bypass the internet in improving latency by reducing the number of hops required to connect them to the game server -See how this works!

Traditional broadband providers with high-speed internet connections ping pong packets between multiple carriers before reaching its destination, causing congestion and latency issues. GameRail typically reduces latency between 20-50% with reductions of 80% or more in some instances. There are currently on-ramps to the GameRail network in nine cities (New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Washington DC, Palo Alto/San Francisco, Atlanta, Seattle, and St. Louis) and plans to expand to additional cities as the network build out continues.

If would like to to see GameRail's network performance on our backbone, check out our Network Performance.