Game overlay networks, game onion networks, game VPNs, they’re all words for the same thing. Like mudfish http://mudfish.net

For people playing across the globe, you connect to their servers, and they give you a better global transit to the other side of the planet. For better latency for games.

Do people have recommendations for a game performance network they use? They’ve had good experiences with?

I’ve been playing with mud fish, and it’s okay, I was just hoping people had some other recommendations.

  • simple@lemm.eeEnglish
    10·
    9 months ago

    My experience is they’re pretty pointless. Speedify advertised itself as something that increases your latency but all of these products are pretty much just a regular VPN. My latency increases every time I tried them. I’m not sure how having to bounce your connection from another server is supposed to increase latency, but maybe I’m missing something.

    • corvi@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      9 months ago

      Sometimes routing can be weird, and a VPN can change that. I’m not sure how they’re ever supposed to do it consistently though. I use express, and have in very rare occasions seen reduced latency while connected vs. not. I’ve never managed to make it happen on purpose, though.

      Edit: I also live within spitting distance of one of the largest server hosting locations in the world, so that may factor into my experience somehow.

      • Bimbus@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        4·
        9 months ago

        The only use-case I van provide I’d at some point FFXIV was being routed to a bad tower or something which caused constant dc’s / horrible lag and using a vpn to change the area / towers I would route to totally removed that issue.

        It has since fixed itself and the vpn did help, but I don’t think its a magical fix for bad internet

    • jet@hackertalks.comOPEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      I use speedify, its great, but only at Multipath bonding. Take a bunch of crappy ISP links and put them together to get a solid single connection. So if your Rural with starlink, DSL, and cellular - you can bond all 3 links, send your game traffic across all 3, and any packet loss will be almost un-noticable.

      It wont decrease your latency, but it can improve reliability. I highly recommend speedify if you have multiple flaky internets available.