Can anyone explain this to me.
I live in Alberta Canada. If I play Warzone 2.0 without a VPN, my ping ranges from 80-110 every game.
If I VPN to Montana or Oregon USA I get between 40-60ping.
How or why is this a thing?
I play on Xbox if that matters.
Which vpn are you using?
Because the United States of America is the greatest country on the planet in every aspect…ping included.
You’re a little mistaken with what you’re looking at. The ping with the VPN enabled is the ping from the COD servers to the VPN, not to your system. Your ‘total ping’ would be that ping added to the ping from your system to the VPN
This is most retarded thing I ever saw.
Do you think that using vpn teleport your internet location to other place in the world?
How are you using a VPN on console? Router with VPN?
It all depends how your connection to the server is being routed via L3 backbones.
Your connection with your VPN enabled is being routed differently and this is faster by an insignificant 20-50 milliseconds, even if those milliseconds matter in competitive gaming.
Huh. If you live in the same province and have bad ping I know it’s not all my internet.
Probably because it’s sending you to a Chicago server from Alberta or something dumb like that… Just like how I’m in Toronto, Canada and connect to dog poo Virginia servers when I can ping to Texas instead sub 15ms…
God I love this comment lmfao
If that were the case wouldn’t VPNing to South America or Europe give similar results as USA then? (Assuming there are servers there). But instead my latency reflects that. Shoots up to 120-150 in SA and the games unplayable going to EU 200+.
Unless everyone playing in those places plays on that high of ping… then that makes sense.
Engish?
I don’t think anything… I’m stating what happens.
Share the internet connection from my PC to my Xbox via ethernet.
20-50 is significant in competitive FPS games.
Is there an official list of where servers are located? I’ve searched and found some references, but I have no idea if they are official or not.
He’s wrong and has no idea what he’s talking about. I’ve used VPNs for years in various titles, what’s displayed is most definitely your latency to the server and not the VPN’s latency to it.
As for why you’re getting better ping while VPN’d, it most likely comes down to routing issues, typically caused by either your ISP, router or local infrastructure. Currently, the route your packets take to the VPN server and then to the gameserver is faster and/or more reliable than the route when directly connecting to the gameserver.
Sometimes there is nothing you as an individual can do about said issues (especially common in Asian countries) which is why services like Exitlag and UU booster (basically VPNs dedicated for gaming) exist.
A list wouldn’t matter, too many variables. If your router has a history of ip connections you can look them up. Once you find a server ip you can do a traceroute and find all the nodes that connect to these trash servers. This is why people buy a Netduma router.