I’m on EU and since DT dropped I need a vpn to play. Specifically during prime time.
I’m curious if many other people are in this situation.
I know for sure it affects people in my entourage but what worries me is that it doesn’t seem to be related to a specific ISP and it doesn’t seem that many players that are affected.
It already happened suddenly during ShB and disappeared as suddenly.
Is it that prevalent to other gamers ?
Are there even other work around ?
It’s hard to justify 25€\months 
A lot of people with Orange ISP have issues in my country. I use Mudfish VPN as it has a pay per traffic plan which is very cheap as it only tunnels the game traffic, been using it for a month and only used like 15 cents worth of traffic.
I’ve been playing in the EU since I started 2.5 years ago and have never had this issue
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Had to use it when Marvel rivals could fuck up routing when you were connecting to lobbies
Can vouch for Mudfish.
It barely costs anything and it works well enough in 99% of cases.
Exitlag is a teensy bit more reliable, but honestly fuck paying for an extra sub to play a game you already pay a sub for.
A few of our players have the same issue, using Orange ISP, using a vpn seems to fix it cause their routing is fucking horrendous (probably cause someone somewhere doesn’t want to pay money, no idea which side it comes from).
Sucks but eh. It usually lags for about 2 hours around 19-21gmt, outside of this it’s fine
i have never hear this issue before
Same, in Germany since they moved Datacenters (I think ShB?) and I’m a filthy Telekom-victim, I also need to use Mudfish VPN, otherwise I suffer from packet loss (fu Telekom-Peering) during Prime Time. Unfortunately, in my region it is the only meaningful provider.
But at least Mudfish is really cheap, 3$ normally lasts me almost a whole expansion duration with its ~25GB traffic.
Where do you “point” the VPN to? I may have ran into similar issues since 7.1 or so? what would be the best destination to choose in the VPN, please?
I use a VPN for some other games too because it’s simply more stable a lot of the time.
People love to blame the games and publishers but it’s not really their fault the majority of the time, it’s not necessarily even the ISP’s fault they’re not manually deciding the route for you or controlling every third party on the way.
‘’ The internet ‘’ is just complex and flawed lol.
It’s really random too and can change with time I used to have no issues in WoW for instance but last time I tried retail again I had a fuck ton of problems and had to use the VPN.
I’ve had problems in GW2 before too but last year I didn’t have any issues with it in GW2.
Same in PoE used to have a ton of problems with it in PoE1 but in PoE2 I’ve had no issues with it while most people actually seem to have issues with it.
Last 3 years during spring-summer were borderline unplayable on my end when server load increases,
Funnily enough, this is the only Frankfurt-based server across all games I ever played that would display this behavior. Fucking overloaded Twelve99 node it constantly routes through.
Wahey, a fellow Telekom Victim (:
