What does this mean?

[DanWhite]

Hello! so, I was trying to use this anti ping software to play a game in a different continent (the program has servers between the game server and me so that's how it reduces the ping but maybe you already know)

 

Then what is in the image happened. It says that I have 999ms and 100% packet loss between me and my router, do you have any idea on why this could be happening?

 

Thank you in advance!

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                         

 

[LpoolTech]

It means that there is a setup issue between your pc and router. I'm quite sceptical of programs which claim to lower your ping it just doesn't make sense you introduce extra servers between you and the game server, anyway try to reinstalling this program to see if the issue clears up

[DanWhite]

8 minutes ago, LpoolTech said:

It means that there is a setup issue between your pc and router. I'm quite sceptical of programs which claim to lower your ping it just doesn't make sense you introduce extra servers between you and the game server, anyway try to reinstalling this program to see if the issue clears up

Anyway there's a lot of them, outfox, wtfast, exitlag, they all shouldn't be fake right? I did and nothing changes

[Hans Christian | Teri]

52 minutes ago, LpoolTech said:

It means that there is a setup issue between your pc and router. I'm quite sceptical of programs which claim to lower your ping it just doesn't make sense you introduce extra servers between you and the game server, anyway try to reinstalling this program to see if the issue clears up

I second this. It is not technically impossible that different forced routing could potentially lower the ping to a server, but realistically you're just introducing an extra service, and it will almost certainly not reduce your actual ping (it is very likely to increase it). What it will potentially do however, is reduce the ping the game server sees, which can save one from ping-limit autokicks.

 

Overall I would not recommend using a service like this.

[LpoolTech]

have a read through this thread. I must admit that I never used service like that (I'm lucky to live in Spain where fiber optic roll-out is one of the best in Europe) but I just don't see how they can reduce your ping by introducing extra server between you and game server. some of the reviews I've read online are inconclusive at best  

 

Edited November 23, 2020 by LpoolTech
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[DanWhite]

27 minutes ago, Hans Christian | Teri said:

I second this. It is not technically impossible that different forced routing could potentially lower the ping to a server, but realistically you're just introducing an extra service, and it will almost certainly not reduce your actual ping (it is very likely to increase it). What it will potentially do however, is reduce the ping the game server sees, which can save one from ping-limit autokicks.

 

Overall I would not recommend using a service like this.

Then how does programs like outfox, wtfast etc exists? out of scamming people?

[LpoolTech]

5 minutes ago, DanWhite said:

Then how does programs like outfox, wtfast etc exists? out of scamming people?

I imagine if they are free(or paid) they are selling your browsing info to advertisers 

[BlackManINC]

@DanWhite

 

If you were a gangster like Frank Lucas, would you want to have to deal with any middlemen to get to the stash, or would you rather cut out the middleman and go straight to the source? If you choose the latter, then its because it makes common sense. Always go for less overhead, not more. Your data packets already has to hop through tons of routers just to get to the server. There is no need to add yet another server for the packets to deal with. 

[mariushm]

It's possible for a program to do that.

Some ISPs will route some traffic through more congested fiber cables, and other traffic through more "premium" networks.

 

One can rent a dedicated server in a datacenter that only offers a mix of  "premium" networks which aren't oversold, so your packet goes from your pc to the isp and then much faster to the server through "premium" networks and then from the server to destination again through more "premium" networks.

It would be faster than let's say ISP moving the data packets through a fiber cable that's oversold and which traffic shapes your packets and therefore you get higher latency.  You may also get fewer hops between your pc and the remote pc this way.

 

Here in Europe, I imagine such programs can be helpful with South Korea and Japan servers ... rather than have my packets go through some cheap oversold "no guarantees" indian owned fiber to south korea, maybe my packets get routed to a premium server in Australia which then go trough another premium network to South Korea ... it's not a lot of extra miles, but it's different fiber cables across the oceans.

[Falcon1986]

On 11/23/2020 at 7:18 AM, DanWhite said:

It says that I have 999ms and 100% packet loss between me and my router, do you have any idea on why this could be happening?

Are you playing these games on WiFi? Is any other program or device using the internet connection at the same time as you?

 

Your program seems to be saying that the high latency is on your local network.

[Alex Atkin UK]

7 hours ago, Falcon1986 said:

Are you playing these games on WiFi? Is any other program or device using the internet connection at the same time as you?

 

Your program seems to be saying that the high latency is on your local network.

If you look at it again it says 100% loss, so I think that is merely saying the router is rejecting ICMP packets entirely during the trace.