Hi, I’m looking to get information together that might be useful for players that want to mitigate their high ping. I’m playing from Louisiana USA and I’ve tested two VPN’s (Mudfish and NordVPN), here’s my results using Resource Monitor. There are two main IP’s that the game uses during connection (51.89.234.64 is the game server I believe, so that’s probably the important one) Feel free to share yours if you have a different VPN or any other information.
Non-VPN
51.89.172.207 - 180ms
51.89.234.64 - 140ms
MudFish
51.89.172.207 - 166ms
51.89.234.64 - 127ms
NordVPN
51.89.172.207 - 161ms
51.89.234.64 - 120ms
How is it possible you get higher ping when not using a VPN.
I am gonna try something with AWS, see if is possible to make your own vpn through that that would be faster
I use exit lag from Australia and it reduces my ping from around 400 to 240ish.
Pretty much a must for me for pvp. Even pve is annoying without the vpn on as the mobs reach like 5m away.
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I’m looking into the game I really want to get it. So for US players it’s high ping? Does it make it unplayable?
It’s better pathing, isp’s do stupid shit sometimes with your connection. My route to London without a vpn may go halfway across the US in the wrong direction before going to NY and crossing the Atlantic. With a VPN it will go straight to NY.
Sometimes a VPN will just have better routing than what you get from your home location.
VPN’s allow you to have a more direct route from time to time.
Things like haste.net, kill ping, and wtfast, are just vpn’s configured to prioritize ping. They just strip out all the security features that come with a vpn to give you a better ping.
I haven’t heard of this. If it works out mind posting the before and after results?
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I checked my connection with a simple traceroute and it appears that my connection to the server is going from Florida > Texas > California > Virginia > New Jersey > London. It appears to leave my ISP in California. I have checked things like this before and most times traffic leaves my ISP in Atlanta or Miami, so not sure why this is routing across the country twice. It may be worth checking if a vpn would help, as my ping averages 175ms right now.
Sure, after work I will test tonight. Baseline I am at 97 and 96 ping average, with loaded pings of 600bytes. Using a Canada East server dropped the .207 to 92ms, no difference for the other, but in my case, this is actually routing backwards because I am really far up the east coast.
What I think will be a significant time saver is actually using an instance set in France for your VPN, right next to where OVH is, and then putting a global accelerator IP on it. The fun thing with AWS’s GA is that the IP given will be routed to the nearest AWS end-point, and they’ll handle their routing to your instance internally. I’ve used it for ARK servers set in EU so that east coast people could get ~80ms ping instead of 100.
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Yeah it’s crazy. Mine was going almost to the west coast before making its way back to NY and crossing the Atlantic. I already had a sub for nord and I bought mudfish to test. I’m hoping other people that already have a different VPN can post numbers so we can find the best to have.
Get anything going on this yet? would be interested to see results and maybe even help pay for the hosting costs a bit.
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Sorry man I’ve been swamped. I actually got it working but I have to transfer my VPN image to EU Paris and then set it up to test, haven’t had time to do it. Overall this is basically free. Global accelerator is pennies per hour, I use T2-micros which are free.
On paper, from my location, it’s a latency reduction of 33% from NA East to EU Paris, and EU Paris is right next to OVH servers, so it’s like 5ms ping. So, on paper, the ping should go from ~97 ping to ~68 ping.
And on paper it should work as it is a very common method of reducing latency. I’ve used it as well in a more professional matter for international routing to development tools for engineers. Saw a massive reduction in people bitching about RDP lag.
But no tests yet, so I can’t confirm, I’ll try to do it tonight.
No rush man doing gods work mah dude.
If anything if like to do something similar for myself in the midwest but I’m a novice at this shit.
So I just finished my testing. It’s actually increasing ping for me. As I said at the start, I am really well positionned for MO2 in particular, I am close to the “pipe” that goes from NA to EU. They use OVH which has pretty decent baseline routing.
Right now, using tracert, with global accelerator, it’s 97-99ms to get to the VPN server. Then it bounces to the UK for some reasons and then back to france at OVH. So that’s 10ms right there. 110ms ping. With global accelerator you get 2 IPs, both are doing the same, as they should be.
Global accelerator certainly isn’t flawless, it can increase latency, like in this case, simply because AWS isn’t routing any better than baseline routing from my location. The further west you are, the better this technique should be, but in my case, the only improvement was only marginal, making a VPN that is relatively close.
Basically, global accelerator adds the overhead of reaching the nearest end-point. If this overhead is greater than the time save provided, then it is negated. In my case the tracert shows that I lose about ~17-19ms getting to the end-point that is west of me, and then it takes 80ms to get to my server in Paris. Meanwhile, tracert directly to that same server, without the GA, it routes south then does a bit of a bumpy road in France, but it does it all in 97. If I lived closer to the end-point, I would see a ping improvement at least on that part.
So at that point, I would say you’d have to try it yourself, see if it’s an improvement.
Ill start digging into what I need to do, thanks for letting us all know though.