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Originally Posted by Stuart

Personally, I am curious how a VPN can enhance the gaming experience.. I know that this system can enable people to play LAN games (games limited to local network) over the internet, and I can see that depending how the VPN routes your connection, it may give you a shorter route to your game servers (shorter route=more responsive game), but there is also an overhead in that that data needs to be encrypted and decrypted, which may not only wipe out the advantage of the shorter route, but may take longer than the time you save.

I am genuinely curious about this.

The twin have been mostly using Hamachi to create or join a network of remote friends, to play games, as if they were in a local network. This is completely private and secure to the gateway and client computers.

I'm not sure how this enhances game play either, unless Hamachi networks used by enthusiasts are connected to optimum games servers. There are lists of Hamachi networks dedicated to particular games: http://www.hamachinetwork.info/Defau...Game=Minecraft

How to install: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryvSWIKwcB4

How to set up a private network: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q67KUafEl8