how's it going everybody welcome back and can a vpn affect your ping of course uh what happens
when you connect to a vpn uh you're going to be connecting let's say instead of straight to
the internet naturally let's say you're in let's say you're in finland and uh you want to connect
to the internet without a vpn of course you're going to connect straight to the internet however
when you use a vpn let's say you're connecting to the uk instead of get connecting straight to the
internet you're going to connect through a tunnel so you're going to have to go all the way to the
uk your connection will travel all this distance and then connect to the internet so of course that
reduces your speed your download speed your upload speed and your ping naturally so of course when
you're gaming um there's this website called gamer gameserverping.com and there are a bunch of games
here that are monitored however you know you don't really need to use this let's say you're playing
a game that's not listed here you can just check the servers of your game let's say you're playing
red dead redemption or gta online you can still uh find where the servers are so the way you can
actually reduce ping is instead of just connecting to a random server let's say you're somewhere
let's say you're in the states and you want to play with european players
now i wouldn't really recommend that but let's say that's the case because um when you're playing
games i wouldn't really recommend connecting to another continent because that's just going
to kill your uh ping no matter what you do so i'm in this region okay i'm not gonna connect
to an american server to play rainbow six siege let's say with americans i'm gonna have to stick
to the european version but let's say i wanna use a vpn and i want to be able to play with
let's say uk players of course i want to head to gameserverping.com and what it gave me here is
a couple of interesting and uh uh kind of paying results here that makes sense of course so
uh european west got me the best connection here at 60 whatever it is it keeps changing because
it keeps uh testing over and over again it keeps updating so west western europe actually gave me
the best results in northern northern europe gave me uh well the second best result so i went ahead
and tested all of these three vpns which you guys by the way if you're interested in any of them
you'll find links to special deals and discounts in the description down below as well as full
reviews if you'd like to know the ins and outs of these vpns but i went ahead and uh to save time i
went ahead and already tested all of them so for uh western europe i tested the united kingdom
uh in order to kind of try to confirm these results here and for northern europe i tested
sweden so uh i tested express nord and surf shark using the best protocols that would be
lightweight udp protocol with express um the both wire guard both true wire guard protocols
for nord and surf shark that'll be in north links for nordvpn and wireguard for surfshark so
here are the results which actually definitely match up with whatever i've got here of course
why why you would do this is that instead of connecting to some random server you should
locate the game server so it seems like here that we have game servers all over these places so
instead of it seems like there's no eastern european servers so uh connecting to let's say a
ukrainian server or a latvian or estonian or finnish server that's probably not going to give
you the best results so really wouldn't make sense so according to this website
european western servers and european northern servers are where the servers are located at
so in order to maximize my uh or well minimize the the ping to maximize speed and and improve latency
with rainbow six siege let's say i'm gonna have to connect to uh as close to game servers as possible
so let's say uk and sweden that's what makes sense uh according to here so these are the results this
is my uh connection by the way without any uh kind of uh without any vpn connection and here we have
the uk ping with expressvpn and the swedish ping with x with expressvpn so this is expressvpn so
71 uk 86 with um sweden and that definitely aligns with the uh results we have here so we definitely
have better connection with western europe a western european server more than a northern
european server of course in game this is just a rough aggregate here with uh speedtest.com or ucla
with uh in-game you're actually going to get slightly better so usually you know i do connect
to european servers but i don't really have 70 ping usually you know it's around 60 55 60 you
know 65 which is fairly playable really so you know let's move on to nord here and we we do get
very similar results with one less ping so roughly the same there's really almost no difference here
uh as well as uh one uh more ping than expressvpn with sweden so you can say that
expressvpn and nordvpn are on par here with in terms of uh ping but it seems like in terms of
download speed and upload speed uh the wireguard protocol here definitely uh kind of pulls ahead
and then moving on to surf shark we have the uk at 79 and sweden at 89. so uh definitely quite a bit
more than uh nordvpn and express here um so yeah there's quite a bit of a discrepancy now not much
with sweden but uh definitely quite a bit of a difference here almost an
eight point difference eight nine point difference uh between uh surf shark and nord vpn express so
yeah if you're looking for let's say a better vpn for gaming and ping you're definitely gonna want
to use either expressvpn nordvpn depending on where you're looking for now let's say you you
like to watch a lot of streaming services netflix and such definitely go with expressvpn it'll give
you the best uh kind of experience in terms of unblocking the most amount of streaming services
it really does work wonders when it comes to unblocking all kinds of streaming services
uh be it a popular streaming service to the most obscure of streaming services so
really works very well if you're looking to pay a little bit less you don't really care about
too many streaming services and you just want to block some of the most popular libraries from hbo
hulu netflix then you can go with nordvpn because you'll get a couple of extra features here such
as custom dns and a few specialty servers but if you're looking to let's say pay the least
amount you don't really you just care about budget and you don't want to pay much and you just want
a vpn that gets the job done with uh as little cost as possible then surf shark will definitely
do the job but of course you know if you're looking for the best ping you're gonna have to
suffer a little bit of extra ping here uh but yeah there's not much of a price difference between
nordvpn and sure so definitely go with the nordvpn if you're prioritizing ping and uh yeah that would
be it so of course you know your european will be uh will kind of take a hit when you connect
to a vpn but with these vpns it really is kind of minimizing the uh let's say uh reduction in speed
here or or increase in uh latency or microseconds so uh definitely go ahead and feel free to
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thank you guys very much for watching i'll see you guys in the next one have a wonderful day