VPNs will NOT make your connection to ESO game server faster.

Iselin

Turelus wrote: »

This is a great post, I've never understood the idea that VPN's make people have better connections.

I always assumed most used them to get around any restrictions their country or provider might have in online gaming.

There are unique situations when the routing from your home to the destination can have problems that sometimes last several days due to a bad hop somewhere on the route. When that's the case a VPN connection that gives you a different route COULD be faster.

People see that and mistakenly generalize those rare cases and think VPN is faster when in fact 99% of the time it's slower.

Morgul667

A big post and yet so wrong

A paid VPN changes my life everyday

Much better connexion and stability .... on a daily basis

SathuDuwa

ping without vpn: 350 - 450ms
ping with digitalocean vpn: 210 - 290ms

Lake

MrGarlic wrote: »

Well, actually, a VPN can help reduce latency by allowing you to direct your traffic closer to an end point rather than utilising an inefficient route that goes the wrong direction as dictated by poorly implemented DNS routing in a distant region.

Such as we in Aust/NZ/SEA are currently forced upon us via Akamai's Hong Kong Prolexic DDoS scrubber.

A gaming VPN does reduce my pings and improves stability to ESO. Without it, I could not play the game.

I agree with your security concerns surrounding VPNs though, especially the free VPNs and TOR. Those are a great way to lose your personal identity, banking details and credit card numbers.

I will only use a reputable, private, paid for VPN service.

All of this.

It's a godsend for us in countries with crappy routing that can pop up.

Additionally, most of the marketed optimizers (Mudfish, WTFast) aren't even full VPNs so a lot of the stuff doesn't apply (although Mudfish has that feature). They don't encrypt or modify traffic and barely add overhead.

Zelos

I work in and have experience in many different areas and ran a underground VPN a while ago so i have a extensive set of knowledge, this ping issue that while connected to a vpn will lower ping isnt always clear, in fact some VPNs will restrict the amount of internet usage out of your machine by restricting certain apps to not broadcast. There are a lot of reasons why a VPN will make it look like you have a better connection then you do, some days the server you reach is not so loaded. Other days it is VPNs will still increase ping even if its by 10ms it still will. Just know this and stay away from free vpns.

SirDopey

Zelos wrote: »

I work in and have experience in many different areas and ran a underground VPN a while ago so i have a extensive set of knowledge, this ping issue that while connected to a vpn will lower ping isnt always clear, in fact some VPNs will restrict the amount of internet usage out of your machine by restricting certain apps to not broadcast. There are a lot of reasons why a VPN will make it look like you have a better connection then you do, some days the server you reach is not so loaded. Other days it is VPNs will still increase ping even if its by 10ms it still will. Just know this and stay away from free vpns.

Mate, stop your relentless false campaigning, you've been shown up to have delivered a flawed argument by choosing to completely ignore the circumstances when a VPN will improve someone's connection. Time to go home

katorga

"Home Network" -> (Sends a Packet out) -> "Stops at VPN server for encryption" -> (Packet sent out again this time encrypted) -> "Arrives at destination encrypted" | -This action took 120ms to complete as it had to make a extra stop at the VPN server for encryption BEFORE heading to its final destination-

that is just all wrong