gaeku

I took cyberghost for 2$ per month , 50 70ms Ping serveurs are perfect , and all 1v1 are now fair ! Thank you  

For two blissful years I played Cold War and had zero issues.
I never even had to look at my Netduma. Just set the Geofilter to Europe (I’m based in London), the ping assist to 50ms, and I was good to go.
Everything worked perfectly and gunfights felt fair.
Now with MWII, the nightmare begins once more. Despite having a full fibre connection, I’m getting obliterated in games where I have the lowest ping. I’m talking about games where my ping is sub 20ms according to the in-game telemetry.
In theory, I should have the advantage. Ping is king, right?
But nothing could be further from the actual, lived experience. I just consistently lose all the one-to-ones. Every 50/50 encounter, every coin flip goes my opponent’s way.  In a way that simply doesn’t happen when I’m playing on exactly the same servers with Cold War. 
So now I’ve resorted to using a VPN in Spain and playing on their dedicated server, and initial impressions so far are that gunfights feel “fair” again. Not that I’m stomping the opposition. Far from it. This is still a bloody tough game. Especially when you're constantly being battered by SBMM. But at least I'm starting to win one-to-ones again.

My hunch is that the lag compensation model by Infinity Ward favours the higher lagging player. I think there are probably limits to this. Once you get to 100ms+, you'll be noticeably a step behind other players, and the server will start favouring the lower ping players again.

50 - 70ms is probably the sweet spot. I'll experiment with different servers and try to find out.

Be interested to hear what other VPN users from England have to say on the matter. I see Alex.Devine swears by Spain and Italy. In fact, one of the first things I noticed when playing on the Spanish server is how many Brits are playing on there!