I recently got a VPN (https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/) from recommendations from teksyndicate's youtube channel.
I play online games and notice that my ping is higher than my ping without VPN. I thought the VPN was supposed to help your connections go through back ways to be faster or am I mistaken. Does that mean VPN doesn't work with games and only works with things such as youtube, twitch, netflix, etc?
It can help with bandwidth, because ISPs essentially throttle high-traffic sites, but because the VPN doesn't directly connect you to the internet (the VPN being a privacy intermediary), it actually increases ping.
So, it's a mixed bag if it actually increases performance, depending on what you do. Watch a lot of Netflix, YouTube, or download large files? VPN helps. Gaming online? Not so much...
I've found that several of my games won't even connect while using a VPN from privateinternetaccess. Their online tech support was not very helpful, but they did suggest the following:
You can try connecting to one of the Port forwarding enabled gateways.As they are a little more relaxed on the ports.
- Netherlands
- Switzerland
- CA North York
- CA Toronto
- Romania
- Sweden
- France
- Germany