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Does a VPN help with gaming on foreign servers?

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jon bones

jon bones

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Oct 25, 2017
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I created a Filipino Apple account to play League of Legends: Wild Rift next week, but I am a little curious about mentions of a VPN that I see around.

If I can successfully download, install & play the game from New York (albeit with likely a fairly high ping) - what can a VPN do for me? If the traffic needs to bounce between my phone & the server, what benefit does the additional hop offer?
 
Lumination

Lumination

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Idk about WR's specific situation, but a VPN is for when a service specifically geo-restricts you. Such as not being to watch certain videos on YT or Netflix in certain countries.

I'm sure there are games that geo-restrict what regional shard people can play on to reduce connection issues.

In your case, a VPN would do nothing except obfuscate your track better, but that hardly matters here.
 
McNum

McNum

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VPNs will not help your ping, quite the opposite, really. Your traffic still has to travel to from your home through the VPN, then from it to where you're going. At best you'll break even, but more than likely you won't.

You cannot cheat the Speed of Light. And that's the barrier when going far.
 
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jon bones

jon bones

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Lumination said:
Idk about WR's specific situation, but a VPN is for when a service specifically geo-restricts you. Such as not being to watch certain videos on YT or Netflix in certain countries.

I'm sure there are games that geo-restrict what regional shard people can play on to reduce connection issues.

In your case, a VPN would do nothing except obfuscate your track better, but that hardly matters here.
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McNum said:
VPNs will not help your ping, quite the opposite, really. Your traffic still has to travel to from your home through the VPN, then from it to where you're going. At best you'll break even, but more than likely you won't.

You cannot cheat the Speed of Light. And that's the barrier when going far.
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thanks, makes perfect sense. i don't know why people were suggesting it.
 
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