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VPNs can sometimes help with lag/consistent ping if the VPN provider is on a non-congested (at the ISP) back-haul carrier but the game servers are.
by extrapickles 10y ago
VPNs can sometimes help with lag/consistent ping if the VPN provider is on a non-congested (at the ISP) back-haul carrier but the game servers are.
- api 10y agoTunneling encrypted traffic through your ISP to a data center improves performance vs. going straight from your endpoint to the other endpoint. Stop and consider this for a moment. The fact that this is so often the case points to either BGP peering being totally f'd at ISPs or deep packet inspection and traffic prioritization / de-prioritization algorithms mucking everything up. I personally suspect the latter since at ZeroTier we've noticed that direct P2P performance is sometimes (for some ISPs) more consistent when the traffic is flowing over ZeroTier than "naked." This simply should not be. If anything encapsulation should have the opposite effect. My guess would be that the DPI traffic manglers don't know what to do with encrypted UDP traffic so they just send it on through.
- jessaustin 10y agoDon't worry, eventually the monopolists will figure out how to make you pay up or suffer, as well.