Latency, VPN and SL

[Anna Nova]

I have started to use ProtonVPN for much of my internet access (I have their fastest service), and I discovered to my delight that I can run Firestorm quite well through it.  However, it occurs to me to ask if this is a good idea or not?

One of my issues living in rural England is that latency in my connection seems to make region crossing (aka sim xing) a bit hit and miss, and I wonder if using a VPN to get an exit node closer to California might help, or conversely worsen that.  I tried it, and the results are not conclusive, but then again, I don't really understand it.  Hence the question.

Anna.

[bigmoe Whitfield]

that big body of water you are shooting the signal thru, even if you have an exit node, you still will continue to get ping and ms timings higher than not.   but I found using a vpn with SL, is like you said hit or miss,  it's not something I use with SL after all now, because even knowing I'm close to their DC,  I still would get routed wildly at times and drive the ping high which caused chat lag and double chats.