Using VPN made me gaming expierience less lagy. How?

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Hi,

I remember reading a post about playing PoE with VPN to make the game playable again on EU Servers in the evening. I tried it and it actually worked. My latency went from lots of small lags / timeouts to actually decent.

How can that be? I first thought it might be my neighborhood at night and too much traffic. But how would that be different by just using a VPN?

Is it a problem with my internet provider? Are they bottlenecking me due too too much small packsize traffic? Can I write them to whitelist me? Did someone have the same problem and got is somehow solved (without VPN included)?

Thx

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The only thing I can think of is that it’s being routed a different way.

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When your connecting to a server a distance away from you, you’re taking 15, 20, even 30 “hops” (so a device gets your data, says “oh you need to talk to this guy” and sends you to the next one) until you hit your target.

A VPN changes the hops. It’s probably not your ISP but one of the other several hops.

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It could be a random router on the internet that your connection goes through.

i.e. your normal route might be you → your isp → random A → random B → random C → GGG, where A/B/C having issues can cause issues with your connection, but then when you’re on VPN maybe your route goes you → your ISP → VPN provider → random D → GGG and cuts out the problematic hop(s) from before.

I’m simplifying a lot, there can be many more hops in a route to somewhere…

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I am also considering a VPN because I switched location and lost my Fiber Network.

Now I am using a shitty LTE and I haveconstantly HUGE problems, especially at “Primetime” and Weekends.

LTE is just horseshit for gaming, especially since it is lower priority than Mobile Phones in the Network.

I pay for 250 MB/S and at some days I get 2mb/s at speedtests and extremely choppy internet connections.

I tried WTFast but that did not really solve anything. Also that service is trash + setup is clunky.

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Somehow i dont have any lags since 2 days without doing anything different.

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^ this, u simply get better optimized hops. And most likley it isnt your isp , same goes for me if i get a telia server in austria i belive as a hop my latency is screwed

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It’s probably not your ISP but one of the other several hops.

Not quite; his ISP picks the first hop. And some are significantly better than others. As in, once you hand off the connection to them as an ISP you can be sure it will be fine*. But they’re more expensive.

Any recurring issues are very much just down to their ISP picking a cheap upstream who runs congested links causing packet loss at prime time (or worse, running their own network congested, notoriously Deutsche Telekom).

And yes, their ISP knows that very well.

*: barring exceptional circumstances every now and then, but we’re talking 1 every 30 days at most or something.

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If the BTS is overlpaded at prime times, then I dont think any vpn will change the issues you are experiencing. Maybe try to call your ISP, if its possible to lock you on different site, which could be slower overall, but wouldnt be overloaded at the prime times.