To get the best experience from playing slots online you will need a fast and stable internet connection. There are two options for achieving this – connecting through a local network on WiFi like you do at home, or via a wireless connection that uses your mobile data allowance.
But which is better? Really, it depends where you are and what networks are available to you.
Our recommendation would be to use WiFi as much as possible. Definitely do so when at home because there is no extra charge to do so and provided your connection is good, which almost all are these days, you should experience no issues with your game cutting out.
If you are outside of your home then WiFi won’t always be available. Sometimes gambling sites are blocked, or WiFi in the space you are in is private, or there isn’t a network to connect to. In this case you may want to use your mobile broadband instead. After all, 4G is everywhere now, and the new 5G which is as good, if not better, than super-fast fibre optics, is available in many places already and rolling out across the rest of the UK in the next few years.
If you do use mobile broadband here are two considerations to be aware of:
- The connection may go down suddenly in some situations
- Your mobile package may have a cap on data usage and you might run out. Switching to an unlimited data package would help here *
*For the record, playing slots online will not use up huge amounts of data, though live dealer tables with video streaming will use significantly more. NetEnt estimate that 1,000 spins uses up 1 MB of data (1000 MB = 1 GB). With most packages starting at around 10GB of data, that would give you 10,000,000 spins to play with! We don’t recommend playing that much each month but it gives you an idea of how much data you have to play with on a limited plan.
