As it says, I’m an Aussie player who has never played with a vpn, yet I see others saying it improves connection, it feels kind of backwards to me. If anyone would care to explain it that would be fantastic, thanks.
They can improve performance but only to a degree. There’s still a minimum latency from AUS to the NA datacenters- nobody’s figured out an answer to the speed of light yet. So if the shortest possible ping from Auckland to Dallas is 250ms then that’s as good as you’re going to get regardless of what service you use.
What a VPN can do is make sure that your traffic follows as short a path as possible, because general internet routing protocols (BGP) were not designed with the goal of minimizing latency. For example, if your ISP has a deal with a Japanese carrier that costs them less money than routing through Hawaii, they might be sending their US traffic over a longer path that adds 50 to 100 ms. VPNs force your traffic over a path selected by the VPN provider rather than letting the internet routing table guide your traffic.
The only way I can think of that it *might* improve your connection is if the path you take to the VPN server and then on to ESO and back is a better path than you take without the VPN.
Of course, for that to work there would have to be multiple paths available, and something preventing the normal routing protocols from taking a better path.
Think of it like daisy chaining, you can run a really long wire and have it lose power over a great distance or you can have a bunch of stations linked across a distance to maintain a consistent flow, this isn’t actually how it works but might help you wrap your head around one possibility
A VPN or virtual private network is meant to secure communications between two points. The data is encrypted end to end with a public and private key or a secret share.
It does nothing to speed up your connection.
The tunnel you create between the VPN server and you,the VPN client, still use normal internet protocols to make the connections. Only the information is encrypted so that only you and the server can decrypt it.
If your country likes to censor your web-based access you can VPN to a host in another country that does not censor and use that server as a proxy to send censored web traffic back and forth.
Enterprise networks also use VPNs to allow access to internal networks over the web.
Nothing will be faster and most likely be slower.
You probable son’t need it, I have a friend down there, had bad connection, it was the crap gear, had him get a new router (Netgear Nighthawk xr-500) no more issues.
well, other than a government run internet system , they don’t do anything in a hurry.
note: if you initial connection is not great, a VPN will NOT fix it, VPN’s stop ddos and silly crap if the server keeps ip annon. does NOT improve the actual connection.
Cheer mate, hope this helps…
That sort of thing really adds that much onto the latency? That’s kinda crazy
So the vpn improves the route the connection takes. Do you know if it would help with packet loss, cause I get a hefty bit of that with eso
This chart https://www.dotcom-tools.com/internet-backbone-latency.aspx shows 180ms from Sydney to Dallas; that’s going to be via the shortest fiber route through Hawaii https://www.submarinecablemap.com/ . If instead your traffic goes from Sydney up to Tokyo and then across the Pacific you’re looking at 160+140 = 300ms for the same trip.
It can, depending on where the packets are dropping. If the packets are being dropped on the link between your house and your own ISP’s local network, then there’s no fix for that other than switching providers. But if the packetloss is happening because a peering point between two ISPs is saturated somewhere along the path your traffic is taking, then an ISP can absolutely solve that problem by bringing your traffic onto a different path that doesn’t have that problem.