how's it going everybody welcome back and you may be wondering why do you need a vpn for gaming now
a lot of people may be living in censorship-heavy countries such as china turkey the uae and a lot
of games are actually banned there so using a vpn ends up being your only way of accessing
these games another reason would be to for example access geo-restricted games or games
that may still be in early access that are only available in certain regions so
if you remember uh back in the early days of black desert online it was actually only available
in south korea so you'd have to get a vpn and go to the korean server and
kind of uh yeah access black desert online through there another reason i
guess would be is to get some discounts some special discounts that may not be available
uh for your region or maybe you're just trying to play with players from other regions that is also
one way to do that is by using avpn now before i show you guys my pink tests uh for all these vpns
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 a full-on review if you'd like to know the ins and outs of
these vpns in terms of privacy policy speed streaming and torrenting capabilities as well
as security features so be sure to check those out if you guys are interested now
getting straight into the uh ping test before we do uh of course i've tested the
same region here italy milan italy milan and italy milan with all three vpns express norden
surf shark i'm also using the best performing protocols that'll be the lightweight udp protocol
with expressvpn that'll be the nord lynx protocol with nordvpn and of course the wireguard protocol
with a surf shark these are the protocols that you want to use at all times really
99.9 percent of the time they will work perfectly just fine they're super functional super reliable
and yeah you know you really don't need any other protocol when using these
so getting straight into the ping tests so we've got uh meter.net here slash ping dash test
and uh this is a pretty cool website that kind of gives you a good accurate representation well
i guess you could say possibly an 85 to 95 percent uh accurate representation because
for example when i'm playing uh war zone this is the this is roughly the kind of ping that i
do get you know it's in between uh 65 and 75 and with a vpn that'll increase the ping slightly so
and as you can tell with expressvpn here starting with expressvpn the median is at 72.
of course i did three tests with each vpn and we've got the median at the first
test here at 73.5 then at 71 then at 72 so i guess you could say that we're in between 72 here the
average is at 72. um you can take a look at the different uh details if you'd like you want to
pause the video you want to check out the minimum and maximum one thing to note is the maximum with
expressvpn turned out to be the lowest but how significant is that to uh playing the game itself
i'm not exactly sure but all in all i think uh the median will be our most important uh result here
so that's what we're going to be focusing on so starting of course as i said italy milan here with
expressvpn we've got 72 71 and 73 and with nordvpn we've got 73 72 and 72 so it seems like expressvpn
beat nordvpn in one of these tests by dropping the ping to 71 and if you take a look at the jitter
it's at 8.6 7.1 and another 8.6 whereas with nordvpn it's 21.2 at 7.8 and um 8.5
uh so there it may have been um i think it's as you can see here the max is a 377 here
so that increased the jitter uh it could have been just the server or that specific
um uh test that kind of uh spiked here it doesn't really make any sense uh so we're going to
ignore that and just focus on the median i think that'll be our most relevant piece of information
here with the median so 72 73 and another 72. so this is nordvpn so far it seems like expressvpn
is a little bit far ahead but let's see what surf shark has in store again i did three tests
and as you can tell it seems like surf shark is taking the crown in terms of uh ping tests here so
we've got 70 70.5 and 69. so uh this is super good really um surf shark is very well known especially
using their wire guard protocol they're very well known for uh getting very low ping uh numbers so
actually back in the days surf shark was really struggling with ping i would uh i
did some tests and i have a very old video of uh me testing well not very old but it's about a
year old video where i was uh trying to test surf shark but it just had terrible results so i ended
up eliminating it and replacing uh replacing surfshark with cyberghost as one of the top
gaming vpns but now it's surf shark has just they've stepped their game up so much that you
know it seems like they're even passing expressvpn and nordvpn in terms of ping tests now speed wise
it's not going to be as quick as nord and express uh but in terms of ping if that's what you're
looking for then definitely yeah you're looking at surf shark and by the way if surf shark is behind
on speed behind let's say nord and express uh it's behind by such a negligible amount that it's not
it's almost not even worth mentioning uh the thing you're losing out with for example if you go with
surf shark and if you or if you go with nord so one of the main things that you'll be losing out
on if for example you go with uh surf shark or nord is that with expressvpn you're gonna be
able to access a whole slew of streaming services you know expressvpn is very well known for being
able to unblock some of the most obscure all the way to the most um popular streaming services
of course by virtue of having more servers at 90 more regions actually at 94 countries
uh unlike nord vpns 60 countries and surf shark 65 countries so if accessing streaming services
uh is of priority to you then you should probably go with expressvpn but if you're looking for
the lowest ping possible you know expressvp surfshark seems to be taking the crown here
though i mean not by a lot that's only a couple of points of latency which you may or may not
care about so depending on how competitive uh you are with your gaming habits uh or or
whatever game you're playing let's say you're playing a game like tekken which is i mean i i
doubt you would need a vpn for tekken but let's say you're playing a hyper competitive game like
a fighting game or something like that yeah you're definitely going to need the lowest ping possible
so that you're able to react and such but let's say you're playing shooters such as rainbow six
or warzone or you know any other kind of game that does require fast reactions but not quite as fast
as something that's very reaction based such as a fighting game then you're definitely uh good with
any of those vpns but then again that is your decision to make i just wanted to show you guys
the ping tests again 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-on reviews if you'd like to know
the ins and outs of these vpns you know all kinds of advantages and disadvantages besides that
thank you guys very much for watching i'll see you guys in the next one have a wonderful day