Charter Communications recently doubled the download speed of Spectrum Internet in a handful of areas from 100 to 200 Mbps at no additional costs to customers. To get the faster 200 Mbps some existing Spectrum Internet customers will need to swap out your older DOCSIS 1.1 or 2.0 cable modem to a newer DOCSIS 3.0 or 3.1 model that is capable of reaching those higher speeds. The good news here is that Charter as well as most of the big Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide you with a free modem.

We are based in the St. Louis area and recently got the free internet speed bump to 200 Mbps. Our experience was pretty good until we tried playing the popular online multiplayer battle royale game title called PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) on our wired desktop PC. We kept getting complete game freezes while playing and the much-hated network lag detected error would pop-up on the screen. Going from 100 Mbps internet service to 200 Mbps internet service ruined our gaming experience and that makes absolutely no sense.