Best VPN for gaming/privacy...

[AJ-Goodrich]

So I have tried a few VPN's and I am NOT impressed with ping/response speeds on them. 

 

VyprVPN

IPVanish

HotspotShield

 

I am looking for something that runs easily (setup program hopefully but I can configure it).

 

Best ping speeds for gaming. I am mainly a WoW player than anything else. But I want to have the ability to expand my gaming selections later. 

 

I currently run a 35ms ping in my games and I've tried those "gamer VPN's" which are garbage. I usually get worse pings x3. 

 

I want non logging (or very minimal) logging vpn's they don't need to be giving my information out to any corporation or government. None of their ****ing business imho! 

 

I would prefer to have non-paid/promoted VPN's also because Linus Media Group says it's a good sponsor VPN (cough tunnelbear which isn't that good imho.) 

[KuJoe]

Build your own VPN using a VPS local to you. That is the best privacy and latency/performance you will get for the cheapest amount of money.

[The Sloth]

Tunnel bear 

[TheKDub]

Private Internet Access has been pretty good for me. Very little impact on my connection speed and ping when connected to a nearby exit point, and I haven't run into any issues with it while gaming as well. They also don't track anything, so depending on how you play your cards, you could be completely anonymous while using it.

 

And it's not too expensive either. (Go for the year payment, it's quite a bit cheaper than monthly)

[AJ-Goodrich]

12 minutes ago, KuJoe said:

 

Build your own VPN using a VPS local to you. That is the best privacy and latency/performance you will get for the cheapest amount of money

 

I live in 97116 (around Portland,Beaverton, Hillsboro area. It's called Forest Grove)

 

Could you tell me how to lead myself to the VPS most local to me? Then what do I do to build my own vpn and how do I connect? (I'm willing to learn if someone's willing to guide me.) 

[KuJoe]

3 minutes ago, AJ-Goodrich said:

I live in 97116 (around Portland,Beaverton, Hillsboro area. It's called Forest Grove)

 

Could you tell me how to lead myself to the VPS most local to me? Then what do I do to build my own vpn and how do I connect? (I'm willing to learn if someone's willing to guide me.) 

I only know of one budget VPS provider in Oregon (Portland specifically) but they're on a DDoS protected network so the latency might be the same as a VPS in Seattle.

 

The best way to determine which VPS provider would offer you the best latency is to test their network before you order. Most will have a test IP publicly available for you to ping to see what the latency is.

 

I have VPSs with both RamNode and ImpactVPS in Seattle so I recommend either of those, here are the test IPs to see what kind of latency you can expect:

RamNode = 23.226.229.4

ImpactVPS = 107.155.106.130

 

I ran a ping test from my VPS in Portland to both of the above IPs and the latency was 3-4ms so both of those should be fine for gaming for you assuming your ISP doesn't have some weird routing.

 

Another thing to consider is that the WoW servers you are connecting to are most likely in California so maybe a California VPS would be better for a VPN for WoW. There are tons of really cheap VPS providers in LA so you shouldn't have a problem finding a really good one for a few bucks a year if you want to try out that route.

 

As for installing a VPN, it's pretty simple actually. I recommend L2TP w/IPSEC for the best level of encryption, performance, and compatibility (you don't need to install any client software, L2TP is supported by basically every popular OS out there out of the box). This is the guide that I use (I actually just built another L2TP VPN server a week ago) and it's really straight forward: https://raymii.org/s/tutorials/IPSEC_L2TP_vpn_on_CentOS_-_Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_or_Scientific_-_Linux_6.html

 

The only suggestion I would make is to get a KVM or Xen VPS, OpenVZ will work but I've had difficulty with getting L2TP working properly on OpenVZ in the past (sometimes it would install, sometimes it wouldn't).