how's it going everybody welcome back and if you're looking for a free gaming vpn today
i want to talk about how a free gaming vpn can affect your experience
versus a paid uh gaming vpn or a just a vpn that you can use for gaming so i have expressvpn and
proton vpn both of which are pretty good options express being probably the best
vpn in the industry today the best paid vpn and proton vpn one of the best free vpns as well
so before we begin if you guys are interested by the way and any of the vpns mentioned today
uh including nordvpn and surfshark which i'll talk about at the end of the video 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 okay so i went ahead and tested proton vpn for latency so
assuming you want to use your vpn or your free vpn for gaming you know unfortunately with free vpns
most of the servers most of the free servers at least are quite a bit congested and they're nearly
fully loaded so let me just show you guys in the united states of course i have the paid version of
proton vpn so i do have access to all the servers but if you have the free version of proton vpn
you will notice that the free servers as you can tell these so we've got nine free servers
in the united states and all of which are almost completely full as you can tell here 96 percent
uh and i went ahead and tested one of the yellow servers here and um yeah i'm gonna show you guys
the results in just a second but this is the problem when it comes to using a vp a free vpn
for gaming you know you've got uh you don't have much options when it comes to servers and if you
want to uh have a smooth gaming experience with uh you know the least bit of lag as possible
what i would recommend is that you find out where your gaming server is so the game server could be
i don't know it depends on the game you're playing it could be let's say you're trying to connect to
europe and maybe you're trying to play rainbow six or warzone and you want to find out where
the game server is so if the game server is in france you want to connect your vpn to friends
but the problem with most free vpns is that you have limited options when it comes to servers so
uh with proton vpn you only have netherlands japan in the united states as options for free
vpns and other free vpns that do give you more country options will limit your bandwidth and
you won't be able to use them past let's say 500 megabytes a day or 10 gigabytes a month so this is
where free vpns can get in the way when it comes to gaming now if you're trying to get maybe a
deal that's not in your country or something like that sure but if you're trying to play uh games
while using free vpns you're not going to get the best ping so for the netherlands as you can tell
here i got 76 76 and 77 without a vpn okay so i'm near the european region so i'm gonna have better
uh ping with european uh countries and now with expressvpn uh i will get as you can tell here
i adjusted the url just so that you know which vpn i'm testing here so 76 76 77 without a vpn
and with expressvpn 77.5 77 and 74.5 so very good and consistent results of course it's expected of
a vpn of express's caliber so nothing surprising here however unfortunately with proton vpn again
if we go to let's say the netherlands servers here netherlands being one of the countries
available uh in the free package let's just go down here to the free servers and as you can tell
nearly all the servers are completely full some of them even at a hundred percent so
yeah uh you can imagine what kind of ping we're going to be getting here very fluctuating and high
pings 111 93 and 99 uh not going to be very good for gaming now with the united states testing the
new york server without a vpn i'm at 146 145 and 142 by the way i just did three tests for the sake
of accuracy uh and now with express vpn 141 145.5 and 148 and yes there are situations when you can
get better ping while using a vpn and this is when the game server or the server of the vpn let's say
is close to the uh other server that you're trying to connect to through the game so in this case the
server that i'm connecting to right here on mater.net is very close to the expressvpn
server and this is how i'm able to get lower ping than without using a vpn now with proton vpn you
could expect how you know higher it's going to be because again they're very congested servers
and i don't get much freedom with choosing uh the right server uh or you know even location wise you
know all you have is nine uh options nine servers so there's really not much i can do here so you
can imagine how you know i'm getting a higher ping than usual so this is the problem usually
with free vpns you're not going to get access to the premium servers they're just going to
give you the free servers that are usually very congested and won't be offering the best speeds
uh and so you know if you're willing of course to try out one of the paid vpns i do have
recommendations and do keep in mind that all these vpns do have a 30-day money-back guarantee
all of their plans are covered by a 30-day money-back guarantee so it's very easy to get
yourself the refund you can just subscribe for the one-month plan and get yourself the refund before
the 30th day and you can use the same 10 12 across all vpns to get yourself like three months and
you know you'll be able to use these vpns to the fullest extent and of course you'll get all
the privileges of a premium paid vpn such as the ability to unblock streaming services very fast
speeds features that you may otherwise not find in other vpns and just overall a great service so you
know you've got expressvpn nordvpn and surfshark if you're looking for the best of the best just go
with expressvpn uh if you're looking for something that's a little bit more affordable you can just
use nordvpn and it does have 34 less countries since expressvpn has 94 countries and north
vpn 60 countries it's still a very good service especially if you're intrigued by the multiple
options you know such as specialty servers custom dns app kill switch obfuscated servers and whatnot
nordvpn is quite a bit feature filled so yeah it'll definitely be a good choice and it
secures up to six devices per subscription unlike expressvpn's five though again if you're looking
for the best of the best and you don't mind the budget then expressvpn will definitely be the best
choice here now if you're looking for something that's even more budget friendly than nordvpn then
surfshark will definitely be the one especially since it lets you secure an unlimited number
virtually an unlimited number of devices with just one subscription so it's a very convenient
uh option for people that don't want to spend much and uh still don't want to maybe sacrifice
too much on performance security or features for that matter still got plenty of features
uh such as specialty servers you know split telling the kill switch shadow socks and no
borders mode of course if you are looking to learn more about these vpns and learn exactly
what these features do and whatnot i don't want to make this video too long so if you're interested
in learning more about these vpns you'll find links to reviews down below you also find links to
special deals and discounts if you're interested in taking advantage of those uh including proton
vpn again all these vpns do have a 30-day money-back guarantee except for proton vpn so
keep that in mind but i mean if you're gonna pay for a vpn you might as well get one of these vpns
nordvpn and surfshark being better services and even cheaper so yeah definitely go for
those if you're looking for a cheap paid vpn and if you're looking for the best of the best again
go for expressvpn comment below if you have any questions i'll be happy to answer all of them like
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