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One of the big questions that come of when looking at Vent hosting is location. Most Vent hosting sites are going to have multiple locations so if you have a wide spread gaming community you need to consider the locations offered by the hosting company before choosing the company. Most of them list this information in public assessable areas.

A very good first step in choosing the location for your vent host is to determine the location of many of the gamers in your group. If you are not already in direct contact with this group, then you might consider gathering this information from a forum or guild where everybody is present and meets online.

Next, what you should do is determine the approximate center location for all your gamers…. this does not have to be ultra-precise. What you are really trying to do is provide a centralized host location so the each member of the group roughly experience similar quality and delays. Once you determine that location, then you pick the closest point to that as offered by your vent host provider.

Now that you have this centralized locations, hopefully each of your members will have equal access to the server and will experience similar quality. For those of you that have been around for a while, you know that this luxury was almost impossible a few years back…. the good news is that with increases in the number of hosts and internet speed, the situation has greatly improved.

Previous to the speed increase in the internet and the larger availability of servers in Vent hosting companies you have to be close to or in the same city as the serve location in order to be assured of a connection to the server. Now you can be anywhere and get a connection. It does however work better the closer you are and most people choose the Vent hosting location closest to them or in this case centrally located so that all members can have access.

With these steps, you ensure that everyone your gaming community has nearly similar quality that is not limited by distance away from the server. As discussed previously, this issue is not nearly as important is in the past but yet these important steps will certainly help ensure your gaming community has the best opportunity to enjoy their gaming experience.