I tried searching, but most VPN topics are 3+ years old now.
Any recommendations for connection-stabilizing VPNs that won’t get me auto-banned for using a “compromised” IP? I’ve been lucky not to randomly disconnect from northeast USA until now. It’s not even every client, just 1-2 random ones and that somehow feels worse.
Paid VPNs are fine, and I’m even willing to self-host an OpenVPN instance if I could ensure that connection was better. I’m not on Wi-Fi, my network gear is prosumer-ish grade, the internet connection is 940/40 Mbit with minimal jitter or loss, nothing else disconnects or lags when it happens (not even other EVEs), and I haven’t changed any settings. I’m at a loss of what else to try than changing route via VPNs.
i think there is some server side issue with those disconnects.
way to often i was doing multiple things while playing eve and nothing else was disconnected.
Like you get a DC when constantly talking with other people over the team speak.
I also don’t experience any DC’s in other games, yet in eve i have them.
Currently winning EVE myself but when I was playing I used PIA for about 3-4 years straight and never once had any issues so I think you’ll be fine OP.
A VPN can’t decrease latency. It literally does the opposite. How were you even tracking connection stability that you’re able to attribute it to your vpn.
For anyone else out there who also uses nordvpn. Don’t forget to buy your isp’s “gaming plan”, as well as their “stabilizing software” and make sure you purchase that $1000 “gaming router” from amazon.
Because it works for friends in other games. FF14 is a good example where VPN usage is very common to reduce ping or packet loss and become playable at all. I realize this thread reads very naively on my part and it’s a long shot, but at least I’ve seen it work for many people before.
I lived in a very tech heavy city with a very common ISP. Somehow, one of my ISP’s internal servers/datacenters would always get overloaded at peak traffic times. I’d call them up and they’d say “things are working as intended” until they escalated to higher levels of support who would give bullshit runaround answers. Eventually I got someone who knew the lay of the land and they dropped hints indicating that there was no way this DC of theirs was getting more capacity, and it wasn’t just “some shit server” but apparently a peering agreement gone awry. If I routed my traffic around the server (for instance, through a VPN whose location was carefully chosen via a VPS picked in a specific location) I had significantly fewer dropped packets, fewer ping spikes, and lower latency for traffic that would otherwise be going through that clogged DC.
That doesn’t mean it will fix everything, but what you said is patently wrong. By going through a VPN you change the path your data will flow, which may likely be geographically longer (or shorter, something something BGP routing, something something peering agreements, something something network topology), but may still result in a higher quality of service.
Granted, most people gobbling up VPNs for SeCuRiTy or GaMiNg PeRfOrMaNcE don’t know what they’re getting into, but it can be beneficial from either of these perspectives… if you know what you’re getting and why. Most sales of VPNs are from people who don’t know the what and why, but that’s marketing…
That’s my soapbox, be sure to subscribe to my TED talk, etc. etc.
Lol i dont care what vpn you use. My traffic is no longer flowing through cloudflare or whatever other shitty US facing ddos mitigation CCP switched to in spring 2019.
My experience is better server response and far, far fewer disconnects.
Piss and moan all you want but my entire eve experience is better since the vpn.
And for the 3 people who know basic networking, this is where you should use your own vpn. Your isp is still shit at that point, which is almost always the problem or they’re using a potato router. For someone using a default :insert generic shit vpn: it’s not decreasing latency it’s probably going to go through the exact same route through their isp’s network, for someone who knows exactly which server is giving them shit and knows how to run their own vpn to avoid exactly that server, it’s a good idea to use.
Your latency in your scenario was already increased, you bypassing it decreased it, and the vpn also increased it. So yes if you know how to use a vpn then you wouldn’t be asking for one in the first place, you’d just use it, probably after checking everything else and working out there was an easy to solve issue.
VPN’s don’t magically decrease latency, they have the ability to bypass, should you know how to use them, or get lucky.
VPN’s do add extra hops, increasing latency.
Bypassing the thing increasing your latency through any means decreases your latency.
But really, if people think using nordvpn or whatever others is a good idea. Well, that’s great, i’ll just need more popcorn.
Wild guess by me, regarding the unstable nature of their network?
In all seriousness though, I just wanted to probe if there is anyone who actually knows chaosnet is or well, was an actual protocol. I like to ask new admins if they can tell me the network protocols they know.
