VPN/Shadowsocks for online gaming

Im living in Shanghai and using China Telecom broadband. Latency is just so high ( im playing World of Warcraft on European/Russian servers).
I’ve tried Astrill but it doesnt works well for me.
I heard that shadowsocks probably could help me but i cand find where to buy subscribtion or server.

For gaming you would use a game acceleration service (网游加速器), not a regular VPN and definitely not SS. Check out UU (uu.163.com), it’s a legal VPN for gaming only. You can select which region you want your game to connect to and then you’ll have decent ping to that region (for that game only, it only routes gaming traffic for 1 game at a time). Most games will have EU/US/AS regions. You can play WoW on EU servers at about ~150 ping with UU, which is pretty much the best you can get from China.

A VPN can certainly decrease the ping you have in your online games. Basically, VPN packets tend to take a more direct route than your normal ISP packet.

A good VPN service should allow the information to flow more freely from your computer to the server of the game you are playing.

It goes without saying that some VPN services work better than others. So, VeePN is a leading-industry VPN software that is not only committed to protecting your privacy but also delivers top speeds thanks to its worldwide VPN network.

4 years ago I used wtfast. Worked really well.

Veevpn is so good in his industry that he need to spam reddit…

Vpn is always going to add extra latency as they most of them use openvpn protocol that reduce by 50% your max bandwidth and also encryption require time to code and decode.

Going for a GPN is the way To go. It’s passing your data thought private network to avoid the bottleneck from cable in the sea. :+1:

I always assumed those game acceleration services were scams - they really do work? I might actually give that a try. I play Overwatch fairly regularly and I often get kicked/have awful lag because I’m using a regular VPN to connect.

I agree that this kind of VPN is more useful if it is just for playing games. Because this type of service is allowed by the Chinese government, the traffic is not encrypted, and its domestic access points are usually directly connected to China’s backbone network, which means it is faster.

u fucking saved my life…

Just looked through your history - why are all of your comments about VeePN?

It’s totally legit, UU works really well. They have their own backbone in China and IPLC/IEPL to different regions. Your game connects to their backbone in China and from there it gets forwarded through the IPLC/IEPL to the destination region, making it look like you’re gaming from that region. It’s physically impossible to get 150ms ping from China to EU servers through the public internet without some form of IPLC/IEPL or direct peering - short of putting your own fiber in the ocean. So yes, it’s totally worth it.