how's it going everybody welcome back and a lot of you guys have been asking does a vpn reduce ping
in gaming now you know in a lot of cases most cases in fact if you don't know what to do or
which server to pick you will end up increasing your ping using a vpn and typically of course
not just ping it will also decrease your speed so due to encryption because of the encryption that
takes place when you turn on a vpn your speed will suffer a little bit now a good vpn will minimize
that speed drop as much as possible and this is exactly why i picked these three vpns now i've
done a little testing over a couple dozen vpns and these are really just coming out on top in
every test and i do have a small test here where i can show you just a couple of examples here using
the french and new york servers uh in all these vpns to show you how it works but now before we
get if you guys are interested in any of these vpns you'll find links to special deals and
discounts in the description down below as well as full reviews if you'd like to learn more about
these vpns now i know i said generally speaking when using a vpn it'll actually increase your ping
and decrease your download speed now there's no way around uh well increasing your download speed
but there is a way around uh in fact decreasing your ping even lower than your base ping by using
a vpn now this will happen when let's say the first rule when using a vpn obviously with gaming
is that first of all you want to locate your gaming server i don't need to log into a game
to show you guys the what i'm talking about here i'm using this website to test out
the ping of each vpn as well as my base ping and this is typically a very accurate website i love
using this website to test out ping rather than having to get in and out of the game
and yeah it just saves me a lot of time and it's it's pretty accurate actually my ping generally
when connecting to france is around 70. uh so this is my ping when connecting to the pair server
without any vpn so 70 i have three tests here so starting with 70 71 and 70. now of course
i have done these tests uh prior to making the video i don't want to make the video too long so
yeah if you want any proof that these uh tests are not in fact faked you can take a look at the dates
and you'll notice that i started with uh the bass ping and then express then nord then surf shark
and i put it in the url here just to make sure that you guys know which one i'm talking about
uh so which vpn i'm talking about as i switch in between them okay and you can tell that the time
uh will move on as i go from tab to tab okay and it's all today so 26th of march 2022 all right
so just uh you know for you skeptics out there all right now in order to get a good or better
ping than your base ping using a vpn first of all you want to locate your gaming server okay so i
don't know let's say you're playing warzone you're playing in the european region um and you look it
up and find out that while warzone or activision or whoever has whoever owns the call of duty
servers specifically warzone let's say they have servers in france okay for the sake of the example
and you are in i don't know bulgaria okay if you're in bulgaria and you're connecting to france
this very distance is going to create a delay now because you are connected to the bulgarian server
you know there's going to be a delay however if you want to decrease that ping and get an
even better ping i mean bulgaria and france are close enough to for you to get a great ping but
if you don't prove that ping what you want to do is connect to a french server
therefore your gaming server and the vpn server that you're connected to are going to be close
to each other which will give you an even better ping that's pretty much how it works with ping
it's all about distance so instead of connecting uh to your gaming server from bulgaria you'll be
connecting to your gaming server from france itself where your gaming server also resides
alright so this is pretty much how it works and i'll show you guys an example of that
and starting with my base ping here so uh in the connecting to the french server and by the way i
selected these same servers here connecting to the same server so um if you go here so with
the base ping you'll notice that if i just go to france it's the and it's the same here i went to
edis.add and i'm always using the same servers of the websites in order to make these tests just get
as much of an accurate result as possible okay so without a ping without a vpn excuse me that'll be
70 71 and 70. so i did three tests just to kind of uh get a better idea okay with expressvpn i got a
74 75 and 72.5 okay just so that you guys know i tested this at 17 41 and right here it's a 1731 so
uh it's all in the same day it's just 10 minutes later all right okay so with expressvpn as you
can tell here from the url just uh just so that you guys know uh which vpn i have tested here so
i got 74.75 and 72.5 roughly so we got an increase in ping roughly um 74 two three four five ping max
so yeah the worst we got was a 5 ms increase which is not bad at all uh but still here the
vpn increased my ping rather than decrease it and i'll show you guys an example where
it decreases it okay and it's coming up so with france uh it's 85 89 with nordvpn excuse me in
france 85 89 and 86 so yeah definitely not as good of a result as express vpn because we got an
almost 20 ms increase here so 19 uh increa 19 ms increase 80 15 ms increase with 85 ms and a 16 ms
increase right here so it's not the best but it's not uh bad either so yeah uh pretty good
overall now with surf shark it's 80 so about 10 ms increase and we got good results here with
73 which is uh yeah so roughly 80. if you want to average it out it could be around 75 whereas the
average with expressvpn could be around you know 73 something like that so you know with the french
server i would say expressvpn is the best followed by surfshark and nordvpn now when i connect it to
the new york server and keep in mind that i am near the european region that's why i'm getting
pretty bad paying with new york but i just wanted to use this as an example again i'm using the
same vaulter.net server from the website here and without a vpn i got 143 ms 145 and 143 again with
express vpn i got lower ping 141 140 and 140. and that is because the new york server that i
connected to with expressvpn is closer obviously to the server that i'm testing right here and of
course i am near the european region so i'm going to get a pretty high ping when connecting to the
states but still i was able to lower my ping by using a vpn server that's closer to the server
of the website here of the of the ping tester with nordvpn it's 143.5 143 and 144.5 so roughly
the same as my base ping so you can consider this result as just neutral no increase and no decrease
now with surf shark and this is where it gets really interesting it seems like surf
shark has the closest server to the uh a ping tester server right here
so it even gave me a lower ping a much lower ping than my base ping so yeah 136 136 and 135 so this
is a great example of decreasing your ping using a vpn again typically speaking due to encryption the
vpn at the cost of speed will protect your connection but in this case it will worsen
both your download and ping but in this case you are able to improve your ping rather than
worsen it so yeah i just thought i'd give you guys a little bit of an example here
again if you guys are interested by the way in any of these vpns uh they all have great
features you know such as the kill switch and split telling and a handful of protocols
you've got plenty of servers a no locks policy and these vpns are just great overall and they will
cater to uh most of you guys in terms of features performance as well as budgeting because you'll
have expressvpn let's say as a premium vpn here being the most expensive followed by nordvpn uh
and then surfshark being the most budget-friendly vpn so if you guys are interested in learning
more about these vpns you'll find links to full reviews in the description down below i'll give
you more of an in-depth look into the privacy policy speed streaming taunting capabilities as
well as security and features and you also find links to pricing and discounts if you'd like to
take advantage of those discounts while they last and keep in mind that these vpns all have a 30 day
money back guarantee and 24 7 live chat support to process your refund within three to four days
if you are not satisfied with the service for whatever reason so that'll be for this video
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