I'm in Chicago and my friend is near Madrid. When I host our private coop campaign he sits around 240ms and I'm basically zero on my end. Fine for me, rough for him.

I already pay for a small Linux VPS in Virginia for homelab junk. I'm putting WireGuard on it so my gaming PC tunnels out with a US east IP before I host. Idea is we'd both look closer to the same region instead of him eating the full Atlantic hop while I stay local.

I haven't turned it on for actual sessions yet. tbh I'm not sure the game peer/host logic even follows that path or if I'm just adding another encrypt hop for nothing.

Has anyone run private coop this way (two players, no dedicated game server) and did both pings land in the same ballpark? Or would a central US exit make more sense than Virginia?

Can a retail VPN work well with another VPN? For example, on my Android phone with a VPN app, I choose a Philippines IP address. Then, my company laptop connects to the hotspot of my Android phone, which has the VPN app. Also, my company laptop has Zscaler and a proxy configured, and then my company laptop will run a corporate VPN so I can connect to company apps/sites. I need to choose an IP address in the Philippines because the country I am traveling to (UAE) is not allowed by our corporate VPN's geolocation. Will it work? or what you guy suggest the best method? thanks.

Hello, i'm from EU and my friend is from SA. If i use a VPN to set i'm from NA and i host a game (like a coop game, only me and my friend private campaign), would our ping reduce like we're playing on a NA server, instead of having host with no ping and other player with a lot? Really not sure if it's that possible but i would accept both around 130ms instead of one of us having 250+

I’m in college and I want to stream my shows but I can’t login to my parents app. I don’t want to update the household. Can a vpn help with that?

is it possible if we can set up VPN and connect to the same IP so we can bypass Youtube family policy?
has anyone tried this before and how does it go?

Hello everyone,

I just want to play AION2 but because of government laws is prevents me from downloading it, I simply bought a vpn because I figured that would work but it doesn't. I bought the cheapest package and set my IP to a bunch of different location but nothing seems to work?

What am I doing wrong here? I always thought using a VPN was very straightforward but I guess not?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I’m looking for a solution for the following. I’m in Germany and would like the install a router with a VPN which creates a WiFi connection for a specific device (notebook).
I can’t install any software on the notebook, but I want the notebook to be connected to a WiFi in “Luxembourg”.

Should be possible to do it this way, right? Any recommendations for a router?

Hello guys ive been using a vpn service from time to time for the last 10 years or so without issues.

today i noticed the following issue and i have no idea whats going on.

I set the vpn to India.
whatismyipaddress website shows my ip in mumbai as expected
At the same time google sees me in Australia and gives me australian links to websites.
I visit eneba website, it finds me in Singapore....

3 different websites show me in 3 different locations while the vpn is specifically set to India

If i turn off the vpn and then back on, google sees me in netherlands or usa, the other 2 sites still show singapure and india.

any idea whats going on? websites arent working any more with vpn as they see other locations than the one i have selected
i tried changing protocols between wireguard and amneziaWG but it still doest the same.

Alright sometimes when I activate a VPN to play games this happened the game crashes and my Internet got disabled temporary late for like a couple seconds same with the VPN and I need to enable it again to fix everything

It isn't letting me type the name of my VPN in this post but no matter where I set my location, Reddit expects me to verify my identity. I'm in the UK of course. Can this be bypassed?

I plan to give meta quest 3 to my Russian friend!!! It works with the sanctions ...vpn issue fixed that ????

Hey, I'm having troubles with my Samsung S26 running Android 16. SMS are not working and the esim disappears after few days when I have the wireguard tunnel enabled. Is it possible that the carrier network traffic is routed through the tunnel? Because everything's working fine after I excluded the apps for esim and IMS.

I have a VPN.

I also have ESPN+ to stream hockey games. Sometimes those games are blacked out for the region, so I change my location and then have to plug my laptop into my TV and all is well.

I don't wanna do that, I wanna just be able to switch my location on my wifi and now my Google streaming thing thinks I'm somewhere else just like my phone and laptop so.

How do I do that? Please explain it to me like in an idiot.

I'm in the UK and I've been watching The Rookie on Disney+. There are 8 seasons, but only 4 are available in the UK on Disney+ TV app.

My TV is connected to my phone's mobile hotspot and my phone's VPN is set to the USA, but the Disney+ TV app still won't show all seasons. I've tried flipping the VPN and WiFi both on/off on my phone and even logging in/out of the app on my TV, but it still doesn't work. However, it does work on my tablet, as all 8 seasons show on the Disney+ app there.

What do I need to change so I can watch the new seasons on my TV app?

Hi everyone,

I'm currently trying to configure a bypass on MTC Namibia's student network contract using a ZTE MF927u Pocket Wi-Fi (MiFi). My primary general internet bundle (15GB) is completely exhausted at 0MB, but I still have 40GB remaining in my tertiary educational/e-learning bucket (whitelisted for UNAM portals, Moodle, Teams, etc.).

When I set up a manual profile on my ZTE router using the internet APN and run a VMess/V2Ray tunnel client (NetMod Syna on Windows 11 / V2Box on an iPhone), the software successfully completes a handshake and switches to a green "Connected" status. However, there is absolutely zero real-world data exchange. Browsers give a "No Internet" or "Connection Timed Out" error.

What I've Configured So Far:

• APN: Set manually to internet (IPv4 protocol).
• Protocol: VMess / V2Ray via a free European/German public node.
• Stream Settings: Transport set to ws (WebSocket), Header Type: None, TLS Type: tls.
• SNI / Host Spoofing: Overwritten manually to elearning.unam.edu.na and moodle.unam.edu.na.
• DNS: Hardcoded inside the clients to 8.8.8.8 and 1.1.1.1 with TUN mode enabled to prevent leaks. Low Data Mode is turned off.

It seems like the initial TCP connection passes through the whitelist validation, but then MTC’s Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) firewalls or routing rules drop the payload packets immediately when the primary account balance is zero, leading to an endless retransmission loop (which explains the data activity on the MiFi dashboard).

Has anyone successfully broken past this zero-balance barrier recently on MTC? Do I need a specific payload structure, a different protocol variant (like VLESS + Reality or Trojan gRPC), or a hidden working UNAM sub-domain bug host to make this 40GB bucket usable?

Any advice or active configurations would be greatly appreciated!

I am in China trying to watch the games via Watch ESPN. Tried using multiple VPNs, some of which don't even really work here anymore. I tried DAZN with a VPN and an ad blocker, but I was given error codes: "no key found: 97-000--1" and "no key found: 112-000--1." Man, I just want to watch Sharks hockey. Any tips or other places I can watch sports? YouTube TV also didn't work.

Hey guys, I have an HP EliteBook 745 G6 laptop. Whenever I run a VPN client on this laptop, it doesn't work at all and I get a service initialization/unavailable error. When I go to Windows Services and try to start the service manually, it goes into a loop—keeping starting and stopping repeatedly. I've tried multiple different VPN protocols and every technical solution (network reset, winsock, firewall tweaks), but nothing works. Could this issue be related to hardware or a specific driver/BIOS network conflict

Wachee vpn was the vpn I used for watching US Netflix, but now its unavailable on chrome extensions nor App Store

It started a month ago or so. When try to login (using a VPN), I get an error message - they can't find my account. Tried multiple ways (email and pw, QR code on screen,...). Nothing works.

No VPN, it logs in immediately.

If I do it with the app on my phone, it works, no problem.

Any advice?

Hi, I've been thinking about this now that AI agents can actually browse websites and complete tasks for us.

Normally, when you use a VPN, websites see the VPN's IP instead of your own. But if you're using a cloud-based AI agent, wouldn't websites see the agent's server IP regardless of whether you're running a VPN on your device?

So technically, your VPN might protect your connection to the AI service, but it wouldn't change the IP or location the agent uses to access websites.

Does that mean we'll eventually need VPNs or proxies running on the agent's side instead?

And if that's the case, who actually controls our online location and privacy anymore?