VPN
A VPN routes and encrypts all your traffic through a chosen server for privacy or geographic access — it is not a gaming performance tool.
3 min readReviewed Jul 2026TTML Editorial
Also known as Virtual Private Network
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Consumer VPNs prioritise privacy, geo-flexibility and general-purpose traffic. Latency is a secondary concern and encryption overhead is real.
For gaming performance, purpose-built game boosters ship without encryption, route only game traffic, and forward it over game-tuned backbones. Neither product is a substitute for the other.
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