Can I use a VPN to balance latency between game clients?

[Tokeegee]

I live in on the East Cost of the US, and I'm trying to play Borderlands with a buddy of mine from Australia. Is there any chance I'd be able to get us both on a VPN hosted somewhere in-between us, so we can balance out the latency we have to the game? I really want to play the game together, but sending a jump input makes me wait around a whole second before it happens.

[Electronics Wizardy]

You can always try it, but im guessing it won't help much, as the packets still have to go around the world and the vpn itself adds some latency.

[Tokeegee]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

You can always try it, but im guessing it won't help much, as the packets still have to go around the world and the vpn itself adds some latency.

Is there a specific service you'd suggest trying?

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Tokeegee said:

Is there a specific service you'd suggest trying?

They should all be simmilar here., id just try one with a free trial

[FinnegansWake]

Interesting question. Borderlands use p2p for multiplayer so connecting to the same server maybe could straighten out the latency for both users. Right now if your're connecting to your AU buddy you get a response later than him, while connected to the same server theoretically should give the same response time. I'm using Surfshark, they have 30d. money back guarantee if it doesn't help at least you'll get to try VPN for free for a month :D. Other VPNs that are said to give good speeds are ExpressVPN and IvacyVPN. 

 

P.S. You don't need to connect to the server in between the countries, just connect to the same US server, it's closer to you and to AU.

[FinnegansWake]

And check on which US server the ping is best, ~10ms should be totally fine. https://www.speedtest.net/