User Input Required: Unshaped vs VPN

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MrBEEP

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Hey Friends

I need user input on a product we are investigating.

Some questions we need answered:

1. Would you use a VPN product for lowering in-game pings opposed to an Unshaped ADSL account if there is a small saving attached?

2. Have you had experience with a VPN before, and did it suit your gaming needs?

3. What would be the best VPN offering in your opinion, based on price, and ping time? (What ping would you expect from such a product?)

I look forward to your feedback.

Kind Regards
MrBEEP
 
I would go for the Unshaped ADSL account. But this choice is only made because I have never used a VPN before. Still have to venture down that road and see how the heck it is supposed to work.
 
MrBEEP said:
Hey Friends

I need user input on a product we are investigating.

Some questions we need answered:

1. Would you use a VPN product for lowering in-game pings opposed to an Unshaped ADSL account if there is a small saving attached?

2. Have you had experience with a VPN before, and did it suit your gaming needs?

3. What would be the best VPN offering in your opinion, based on price, and ping time? (What ping would you expect from such a product?)

I look forward to your feedback.

Kind Regards
MrBEEP
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1. YES - then i can go business uncapped !!!

2. YES - but it was remote server administration :eek:

3. on par with 1 gig data to 1 gig unshaped ?
 
And I'll do this:

http://www.sainet.co.za/vpn.html

Although this is a watered down version of "bwana's", I still have no clue as to how this is supposed to work. I need PRACTICAL examples or something here. I VPNned into the Stellenbosch network a few days ago. It connected. Then nothing. I didnt know what to do with it. Maybe its just not for me. . .
 
hiiihiii....

what happend to NukeCap's VPN service for gaming ?
 
Lower price with equal/better performance would make me switch over.

Unshaped (when it's not horribly screwed up like it is these days) gives 400-500ms to US servers, maybe 100ms less to EU servers. If you can match that, at a lower price than unshaped, then you'd have my business.
 
ld13 said:
And I'll do this:

http://www.sainet.co.za/vpn.html

Although this is a watered down version of "bwana's", I still have no clue as to how this is supposed to work. I need PRACTICAL examples or something here. I VPNned into the Stellenbosch network a few days ago. It connected. Then nothing. I didn't know what to do with it. Maybe its just not for me. . .
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Gaming VPN's are dedicated servers generally set up on a good routing route (few hops) and generally very close to the gaming server. You connect to this server with port 80 which is not shaped and this server in turn makes the connection to the gaming server. As it generally will have a big pipe and it close to the server you get excellent pings and then the trip back via the unshaped port and a supposedly not busy server gives you a nice stable low ping.

Generally speaking the gaming on a VPN network is better than the experience on a unshaped account. I stand corrected here but as no one else is stepping up to the plate.
 
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