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For all of you using wtfast and the like, stop giving them money.
I'm tired of having to constantly disprove people that claim that it helps when it really doesn't do a damn thing except lighten your wallet. I know the placebo effect is strong and many people will claim it works amazingly (same shit is said about homeopathic medicine), but it doesn't.
Since I just spent a good hour coming up with a nice solution to provide some numbers to this I figure I'd share a bit more, well, loudly I guess.
My original post is here in a long ass chain reply to someone who is deeply seated in the belief that they work and has no idea what they are going on about.
And this long chain that went a fair bit better in getting people to understand
Either way, for those of you who can't be bothered to go to those comments. Here's the gist of it.
Using a proxy/tunnel/vpn/whatever the hell you can think of just makes pings worse. It's absolutely basic networking stuff and there isn't anything a proxy can do to improve this (except in certain edge cases I'm not going to go on about).
For those of you interested in the numbers though, here's the condensed version.
Florida (where I am) to New York City(where my own server I'm using as a proxy for this demonstration lives).
So, 50ms from me to New York City.
Now how about directly to my server in Amsterdam (cross continents for me)
128ms average, not bad.
Now how about with a fancy transparent proxy I setup. paping v1.5.5 - Copyright (c) 2011 Mike Lovell
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Look at that, higher ping (132ms average)! I ran the tests multiple times and this was the fastest over the proxy (the same for direct connection too).
You may think the difference isn't that big, and you're right. I specifically used a best case scenario to prove that no matter what there will be extra latency introduced. The packet from me in Florida was already going to New York City anyway to head underneath the ocean to Europe. It just took a quick 1 block detour to get to my server and then head right back out. My server being there had almost no influence on that, Comcast (my ISP) still sends the packet to New York City in both cases, it just terminates in New York City for the proxy and then my server ISP (Level3) takes care of it from there.
I could've went out of my way and used my server in San Francisco as a proxy to Amsterdam, but that'd be really unfair.
Now can you please, for the love of Nui, stop using services like wtfast and Battleping. They aren't doing anything for you. The best they are doing is some shenanigans to make pings look lower but they truly aren't. If not even the super fast iptables proxy can do anything to improve things in a best case scenario, why in the world would you think something like wtfast/Battleping/VPNs are going to help?
I'm still 90% sure I'll get people disagreeing with me, and that's fine. It's their money to waste, but the rest of you, please, I beg you, stop letting those scam companies (they do provide the service they advertise in the sense that it's a proxy, but that's all, so they aren't totally a scam) stop being in business.
Edit: You know what, fuck all of you. You want to waste your money on shit that doesn't work, go right ahead. You all love claiming that I'm wrong and have zero evidence against what I have. You try to claim I'm using anecdotes and then use anecdotes to say why it's wrong.
If I'm so wrong and deserving of mockery, where is your proof? I haven't seen anyone show any actual numbers like I have that show I am incorrect. I provide evidence but you just dismiss it because you don't want to hear it, it's the equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and going LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU.
I beg some of you fuckers to try and prove me wrong doing the same kind of tests I did, but I doubt any of you will or even have enough braincells left after being here to figure out how to do it.
I genuinely love how people claim ArcheAge has such a fantastic community when it's such a fucking cesspit.
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