VPN

[Kevinslm]

Sorry idk if I’m in the right place but does anyone know what’s the best vpn for preventing DDoS attacks while I’m gaming 

[BobVonBob]

Any VPN will be enough to prevent being knocked offline by a script kiddie firing up LOIC, and if it isn't you can just swap to another server. The bigger problem could be latency. If your VPN doesn't have a good route both to you and to whatever game server you're using you might end up with 100+ ms of extra ping.

[PineyCreek]

...do you expect to be targeted by a DDoS attack?  Usually the object of a DDoS attack is a service or server itself, not individual users.  If so, nothing you do personally will prevent that.  I suppose if for example an NA server is targeted and you can connect to a Europe server for example, you can avoid it, but you'd be dealing with latency.

 

VPNs are good for security (obviously, encryption), location obfuscation (somewhat, and also dependent on your VPN endpoint), and getting out of region-locks (watch a show on a streaming service in another country for example).  Unless you have it set otherwise, they'll also use their own DNS servers.

 

 

[LIGISTX]

11 minutes ago, Kevinslm said:

Sorry idk if I’m in the right place but does anyone know what’s the best vpn for preventing DDoS attacks while I’m gaming 

Your actually getting DDOSed..?

 

As stated above, VPN's WILL introduced latency, and that is not so great for gaming...

[Kevinslm]

Well I have 2 vpns I’m looking and I’ve tried seeing what is better but idk my opinions are NordVPN and Express VPN

[LIGISTX]

4 minutes ago, Kevinslm said:

Well I have 2 vpns I’m looking and I’ve tried seeing what is better but idk my opinions are NordVPN and Express VPN

Why do you need one though... For gaming its almost always recommended to not use a VPN since it will hurt latency...

 

Are you actively being DDoSed, or are you just worried about it? If your worried about - stop being worried about. Even if you use a VPN, if someone has your actual IP address, your going to get DDoSed regardless of the VPN. If they decide your a worthy target of an actual DDoS attack, there is nothing your going to be able to do about it.

 

TLDR; you likely don't need a VPN unless you know you need one.

[Kevinslm]

I need a vpn for gaming Bc I have been getting DDoS I’m getting a new router and modem in a few days to get a new ip and the vpn will hide it from other people when I game. I just need to know what the best one between nord or express

[TehDwonz]

2 hours ago, Kevinslm said:

I need a vpn for gaming Bc I have been getting DDoS I’m getting a new router and modem in a few days to get a new ip and the vpn will hide it from other people when I game. I just need to know what the best one between nord or express

Both of those services have a 30 day free trial, afaik.

I use ExpressVPN, and it only adds a little extra latency for me - here is the gateway info box from my pfsense firewall:

At the top is the non-vpn default WAN connection, pinging google (not sure why I blurred that).
Next one is a VPN location within 50 miles of me, pinging cloudflare DNS.

Last visible one is another ExpressVPN exit node around 400 miles from me, pinging Google DNS.

 

Obviously, the further away you pick for the exit node, the higher the latency - but that said, if the game servers are on the other side of the globe, a VPN can actually result in a better route and more consistent ping.

Actual bandwidth is going to be mostly down to the hardware doing the encryption on your end. My pfsense hardware is a bit old and has no AES-NI acceleration on the CPU (Celeron J1900). It can still manage 20-50Mbps. If you run the software on your PC instead, it's likely your CPU will have AES-NI, so there is potential to get higher performance.