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.
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.
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.
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
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.