Someone at used a VPN connecting to a far away server? like you are in USA and want to connect in the EU server then the VPN will help you to have better ping?
Under most normal conditions, connecting to a VPN will actually increase your ping, since you’re adding to the total distance the information has to go in order to reach you.
Networks do not work that way. It is very, very, very unlikely that using a VPN will make you get better ping.
Making all of the data go from:
Your comp → VPN → Blizzard
vs:
Your comp → Blizzard
…is probably not going to make anything faster. VPNs can make websites think that you are from somewhere else (since you are routing your data through one of the servers they have available, usually with a variety of different location options), but unfortunately they cannot actually, physically move you to locations with better ping to Blizzard EU HOTS servers. That kind of service is done by airlines, not VPNs.
The bottleneck is still your own internet connection, which is why you get the bad ping in the first place. You’re not going to be able to stream game content any faster to the VPN server than to a hots server.
compared to what everyone else is saying here, i did get better ping using vpn when connected to a relatively distant server.
From my experience, yes. Vpns have lowered my ping on two occasions. One being, using Windscribe to get 10-15ms less ping on EUW servers from NA east. Originally getting 100ms and going down to 90-85 felt massive for counter strike. Other time was using a vpn called UU Accelerator to connect to netease warcraft 3 chinese servers. UU MASSIVELY IMPROVED the routing connection to chinese servers knocking off 50-60 ms from 200ms.
I’ve tried many vpns to find the best routing for international servers but windscibe has been the only one to actually decrease my ping.(this was also 5 years ago so things may have changed with windscribe’s quality) I’m currently going through the rabbit hole again to try and find the best routing for oceanic servers but from past experiences this is all I’ve discovered. The isps I tested this on at the time were Verizon and Comcast.
Yes, some vpns do have a more direct routing to international servers. Don’t listen to these kids in the comments.
It sucks but it don’t work that way. I wish it does tho I got friends in the US that I can’t play properly without lagging cuz I’m in the Asian region.
My friend connecting from China to Europe servers around 70 ping which is ideal for most MOBA cases. 网易UU加速器——不止快，还很稳。用UU云存档，给存档上个保险。He is using this app but I wonder if any English services.
How to Ethernet internet fro faster ping
It is possible for a vpn service that prioritizes gaming routing to.improve your ping. There are multiple routes your data can take to reach the blizzards servers depending on isp routing and peering.
It is not optimized to provide the shortest route for your connection to every gaming service around the world, naturally. What the vpn service does is have your connection go directly to their server which ideally is then sitting very close to the blizzard data center. I have seen my ping improve for world.of warcraft by 40ms using a vpn service like exitlag. With exitlag you specify your game and the region the server you connect to is (assuming you know it) and it routes the traffic accordingly.
Unless your ISP has trash routing to the destination server, in that case an VPN can help to reduce your ping.
Yeah that I tought but… is easy to dream so I had to ask
Unless you have an ISP with “bad” routing
I understand but I tought that maybe could be possible a scenario like that:
pc–120ping–>blizzard
pc–40ping–>vpn–40ping–>blizzard
thinking that the server is faster and have a location close to blizzard
But yeah is really unlikely
on fortnite tho lmao
Yeah I think that too but you know, their advertising say that improve your ping so maybe could be faster if his server is faster than blizzard and maybe in this way could win a little time
Interesting, thanks. Are there any others you’ve tried, as well? Wondering if there’s a way to know who’ll be the most optimal ahead of time without having to buy service to each one.
That’s the unlikely case where it helps 
Think of ping like an airplane — you can’t make the travel time shorter by adding a stop along the way. (the internet is a little more complicated, but you get the idea)