I feel whoever wrote this article is a moron. then again, it's apparently a sponsored article
Only the first and third one makes any lick of sense, and those two are pretty much the same thing.
As using a VPN to connect to your home network to game from there would add a really stupid amount of lag.
ISP Throttling makes no sense though. As encrypted or not, your connection still goes through your ISP first, you didn't just, jump over it. They still see exactly how much data your using because it's looking at bits and bytes
Optimising the connection makes no sense either as using a VPN would generally make your computer make MORE jumps to get somewhere rather than less, if anything it makes the lag higher.
I'm also not sure how gaming through a VPN prevents your account from being hacked. that just doesn't make much sense.
Good god this article is stupid
I mean it's like, instead of going.
PC----Router---Modem----backbone----backbone---server
and back.
you're making it go
PC-----Router-----Modem-----backbone----backbone----VPN----Backbone-----Backbone----Backbone----Server
And repeat it back.
It's just stupid.
⬆️ I was just about to say the same thing, except you explained it in more detail anyway. VPN makes no sense for gaming, aside from maybe the region locked ones, but expect lag, you'd probably want to do it on a turn-based game or something like an RPG rather than an FPS
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I just want to point out that a lot of major MMO's have all their servers in one place (ie. Dallas or Toronto) and so your normal routing might not be optimized specifically for that one server. However certain VPN's are set up to specifically send you straight to the server with less delays or loss. So usually your actual speed/ping won't improve drastically (or at all in most cases), but the packet loss and random delays from congested networks can be mitigated.
So I believe you have the right idea about VPN's in the broad sense, but they can have actual performance impact when they are used for something very, very specific. Then it comes down to "Are you willing to spend money per month for that small upgrade in network performance".
Enhance your gaming experience by massively increasing your ping!
[QUOTE]Game With Your Brain[/QUOTE]
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Hey now, it doesn't say "write articles with your brain."
Spoiler, it can and it can not.
It highly depends on the servers you use and what route it takes.
Some internet connections are already the shortest or best way over servers that aren't congested.
VPN can help when it is not the case, it can route around congested nodes, it can do quicker routes.
Many players in FFXIV had this problem, back when the servers were in Montreal and most US connections went over some New York Level 3 Hop that had big packet loss or was otherwise congested.
VPN was only way to get around that hop for most people and it helped with lag and random 90k (disconnects.)
Personally a VPN also helps me in FFXIV, playing on NA servers from EU would put my route over the NTT network, now you would think, cool thats all the games ISP and their internal connection from EU to NA Servers must be the best one, wrong.
I get a better ping over the other oceanlines when I connect to a VPN server close to the game servers which then go to the game servers over a short NTT owned route.
It also reduces the route by like 5 hops.
As I just said, it highly depends on your ISP, your location to the target servers and even what VPN you use. Not every of those game VPN services will have the same or any effect due to different server locations they have.
Game VPN also doesn't need to break you bank, there are some game VPN where you pay by traffic, for most games you can get by half a year to a year with like $5 depending how long you play and how data intensive the game is.
[QUOTE=Dracon;53042297]ISP Throttling makes no sense though. As encrypted or not, your connection still goes through your ISP first, you didn't just, jump over it. They still see exactly how much data your using because it's looking at bits and bytes
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There's some validity to this, though not in the way the article describes it.
With net neutrality repealed, if an ISP decides to throttle access to a [I]specific[/I] website, a VPN could then bypass that throttling by tricking the ISP into thinking you're connecting to something totally unrelated to the website they're throttling.
You're right as far as throttling data usage goes though, there's no way to avoid that really to my knowledge.
[QUOTE=WitheredGryphon;53042567]There's some validity to this, though not in the way the article describes it.
With net neutrality repealed, if an ISP decides to throttle access to a [I]specific[/I] website, a VPN could then bypass that throttling by tricking the ISP into thinking you're connecting to something totally unrelated to the website they're throttling.
You're right as far as throttling data usage goes though, there's no way to avoid that really to my knowledge.[/QUOTE]
This wouldn't work either if the website throttling is implemented as a whitelist, i.e. you get throttled by default, other than for the sites/services you paid for.
[QUOTE=Mezzokoko;53042577]This wouldn't work either if the website throttling is implemented as a whitelist, i.e. you get throttled by default, other than for the sites/services you paid for.[/QUOTE]
At that point it's not throttling anymore. You're paying for increased speeds to those websites because your internet speed is no longer what it originally was.
I.E. if you started at 100 MB/s and they lowered you to 10 MB/s with the option to access Netflix at 100 MB/s, then they've reduced your internet speed, they haven't throttled any websites.
Because that's the case, it's far more likely to see blacklist scenarios where you retain 100 MB/s, but Netflix is throttled to 10 MB/s unless you buy a "streaming services" package or something.
Says it can increase your game account security by encrypting your traffic...
Don't most game accounts get compromised because of either A) stupid easy password to guess, B) some sort of vulnerability on the serverside? I really don't think a VPN will help in that instance.
The rest of the stuff is arguably somewhat useful, but only if those are things that affect you and I suspect that isn't the case for most people, unless you're moving to different continents very frequently.
What a shit article.
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