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Experiences with Game VPNs?
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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.
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.
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
I use speedify, its great, but only at Multipath bonding. Take a bunch of crappy ISP links and put them together to get a solid single connection. So if your Rural with starlink, DSL, and cellular - you can bond all 3 links, send your game traffic across all 3, and any packet loss will be almost un-noticable.
It wont decrease your latency, but it can improve reliability. I highly recommend speedify if you have multiple flaky internets available.