# Best and non-laggy VPN for online gaming

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [December 4, 2013, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-non-laggy-vpn-for-online-gaming/675493 "2013-12-04T17:39:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![MaverocK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@MaverocK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaverocK)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2013, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-non-laggy-vpn-for-online-gaming/675493/1 "2013-12-04T17:39:47Z")

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We tried HideMyAss VPN but it was kind of laggy. I would like to see your recommendations/suggestions/advices.

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2013, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-non-laggy-vpn-for-online-gaming/675493/2 "2013-12-04T17:42:24Z")

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Moved to the Game Room.

Colibri  
General Questions Moderator

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**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2013, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-non-laggy-vpn-for-online-gaming/675493/3 "2013-12-04T22:28:48Z")

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Most cheap VPNs are over-provisioned and laggy and not suitable for gaming, where latency and bandwidth both matter. They’re barely adequate for browsing.

If money and time are no objects, you could[roll your own with an Amazon EC2 account](http://www.stormacq.com/build-a-private-vpn-server-on-amazons-ec2/), but even under the best-case scenario, you’ll be adding a few additional hops between yourself and the game server, so additional lag is unavoidable.

Why do you need a VPN for gaming, anyhow? Depending on the situation, sometimes making a VPN out of your home computer and network might make sense too (because at least you’re in the same town, and maybe the same ISP, as your VPN client).

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**Author:** ![Moiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Moiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moiz)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2013, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-non-laggy-vpn-for-online-gaming/675493/4 "2013-12-05T10:22:30Z")

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actually, i did try hidemyass too. and i didnt get good results, in fact my net speed literally died.  
It was giving even more bad latency as compared to what i was getting.

i dont know how HMA works, does it even have servers in all those countries which it states in its client.  
Now why do you need vpn for gaming? I play MMO games. and you know servers of MMO are not situated in your neighborhood (at least not in my case), so for that matter, i use vpn.

I play DOTA and WOW, my current location is South Asia,

nearest server for DOTA 2 is South East Asia, I get 135+ ms when i dont connect VPNS, when i do, it reduces down to 88ms ( i can even provide you SS for that matter if you want to see ). I use purevpn, and i am quite happy with the results. I’ve been using it from months now. You should try it out aswell.