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Experiences with Game VPNs? (hackertalks.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Game overlay networks, game onion networks, game VPNs, they're all words for the same thing. Like mudfish http://mudfish.net

For people playing across the globe, you connect to their servers, and they give you a better global transit to the other side of the planet. For better latency for games.

Do people have recommendations for a game performance network they use? They've had good experiences with?

I've been playing with mud fish, and it's okay, I was just hoping people had some other recommendations.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My experience is they're pretty pointless. Speedify advertised itself as something that increases your latency but all of these products are pretty much just a regular VPN. My latency increases every time I tried them. I'm not sure how having to bounce your connection from another server is supposed to increase latency, but maybe I'm missing something.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sometimes routing can be weird, and a VPN can change that. I’m not sure how they’re ever supposed to do it consistently though. I use express, and have in very rare occasions seen reduced latency while connected vs. not. I’ve never managed to make it happen on purpose, though.

Edit: I also live within spitting distance of one of the largest server hosting locations in the world, so that may factor into my experience somehow.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The only use-case I van provide I'd at some point FFXIV was being routed to a bad tower or something which caused constant dc's / horrible lag and using a vpn to change the area / towers I would route to totally removed that issue.

It has since fixed itself and the vpn did help, but I don't think its a magical fix for bad internet

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