how's it going everybody welcome back and today i'm going to show you guys three of the best
vpns for gaming so uh before begin 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 okay so before i show you the results of my ping results here i
went ahead and tested all three vpns i tested a nearby server i'm in the european region
and i tested the american server in case some of you guys would like to play cross
continent which i don't really recommend so first of all let's get through some of the reasons why
you might be using a vpn for gaming now increased security privacy and anonymity
are all great reasons to use a vpn but there are many more benefits to using a vpn for gaming you
know one of them you could protect yourself against swatting while it doesn't really
happen often uh there have been some reported cases particularly in multiplayer games where
gamers become so angry that they start to stalk other players so having an ip address
could uh prove to be useful here now you could also avoid a ddos attacks um you could stay safe
on public wi-fi which is always helpful you never want to connect to public wi-fi without a vpn
of course you can forget about bandwidth throttling as well when you're using a vpn
since a lot of isps do throttle connections based on consumption and it can be very annoying if
you're gaming for a couple of hours before your connection starts getting throttled by your isp
another good reason is uh playing online from any region many online games have servers in multiple
regions and often use geoblocking technology to ensure you connect to the server in your region
this often happens if a game isn't yet released worldwide when the games are grouped by language
or when games are popular they need servers in multiple regions to handle all the connections
if you're in the states for example you connect to a server in the states if you're in the uk you
connect to a server in the uk or europe but this may cause problems if you live in one region and
want to group up with gaming friends in another region now one tip i would give you guys if
you're trying to use a vpn with gaming is that you connect to the server the vpn server closest to
the game server itself so you know do your research let's say you're playing warzone and you
find out that um you know the european one of the european uh war zone servers is located in the uk
then you want to make sure that you connect to the uk this is how you minimize latency uh when using
a vpn and it's one of the rare cases when you can actually decrease your ping rather than increase
it when using a vpn and i do have an example here with the ping test to show you guys how that works
uh and we'll get to it in just a minute though another reason to use a vpn is that you can enjoy
new releases earlier uh if they only release to certain areas first you can also play band games
if you're in an area that bans some games you we know that there are some games that are banned in
australia china brazil so yeah you can go ahead and play whatever game you'd like to play very
freely and you don't have to worry about ip bands if a certain ip has been banned you know sometimes
you get timeouts for by bad behavior or whatever it is sometimes it's not really justified so you
can go ahead and change your ip by using a vpn and access the game right away and this could happen
by the way a lot in rainbow six specifically and of course the final reason would be to reduce
lag and ping times which is showcased actually in the second pink test that i uh tested here okay so
in this uh right here in this test i went ahead and tested two servers so i tested the
uk server and i tested the new york server now again usually you don't want to connect cross
continent to make sure your ping stays low uh but i went ahead and did it anyways just in case
some of you guys may want to do that and don't you know mine the slightly increased ping okay
so keep in mind that i am using these same servers here uh again i'm near the european region so i'm
going to have better ping with european servers uh and i've tested the london server in all three
vpns and i also tested the new york server in all three vpns and i made sure that uh in all
the tests here i am using the same server which is vaulter.net it's the same with the new york server
so and of course by the way you can just tell by the url right here which server i which vpn i'm
testing so yeah i went ahead and adjusted that just so that you guys can tell so without a vpn
uh of course i'm gonna have the best ping at 62 64 and 62. i went ahead and did three tests just for
consistency and with expressvpn you can tell here 65 65 and 65 very consistent barely an increase in
ping very low so yeah great stuff overall with expressvpn now with nordvpn we got 64. 65.65 so
roughly the same here um i mean you could say that nordvpn performed a little bit better but i mean
i would say they're uh on the same level really expressvpn and nordvpn right here with this test
and if we go to surf shark we've got 67 69 and 67 again very good results i mean even if surf shark
is a little bit behind here it's not uh far behind so yeah great stuff overall and now with the new
york server without a vpn again this is one of the examples right here that you're going to see where
connecting to a vpn server that's close to the server you're trying to connect to so yeah just
make sure that the vpn server is close to whatever server whatever game server you're connecting to
in this case it seems like the expressvpn server is close to the server that i'm connecting to here
with meter.net uh vaulter.net or whatever so it ended up in giving me better ping
so 136 138 138 with expressvpn whereas i got 140 139 139 without a vpn so again
uh you are able to decrease your ping using a vpn if you connect to a vpn server that is as close as
possible to your game server so yeah now with uh nor with so with with expressvpn we got 136 138
138 with nordvpn 149 141 and 141 so it seems like the nord vpn server is not very close the new york
nordvpn server is not very close to the ping uh the ping test server here but with surfshark
it seems like it's even closer to the ping test server so 135 135 and 135 again all three vpns
are performing very well just make sure that your vpn server is as close as it can be to the game
server for the best possible results so that'll be it now how do you know which one to get it
really is up to you if you're looking just for the best of the best overall especially when it
comes to unblocking streaming services just go with express if you don't care about budgeting
if you're looking for something with a few more features here and there such as specialty servers
and custom dns and whatnot it's also a little bit cheaper and allows you to secure one more device
since expressvpn only allows for up to five devices you'll get six with nord if you're looking
for the ultimate budget vpn that just gets the job done at the cheapest possible cost while not
really sacrificing much on performance security or features for that matter as you can tell
uh then surf shark will definitely be a great convenient very budget-friendly choice that you
can really you can just share your account with as many people as possible since it also allows for
an unlimited number of devices to be secured with just one subscription of course if you're
looking for more information and you want to learn more about these vpns before you
commit to a subscription definitely check the links in the description down below you'll find
all reviews as well as links to special deals and discounts and keep in mind that all these vpns are
covered by a 30-day money-back guarantee and you are able to claim your refund no matter which plan
you decide to get granted you claim the refund before the 30th day and you can ask the live chat
support for help and they'll process your refund within less than a week usually four or five days
even less sometimes uh and of course you'll find the live chat support easily accessible
at the bottom right at each of these uh vpn's respective websites so that'll be it for this
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