Route optimization for games

[COACH]

What are the chances of the R3 getting a feature that would allow us to get the fastest connection to the gaming server we are playing on. I play on Xbox series X. I play in a call of duty HC SnD league but it's mainly east coast and I live on the West. So while I find the geofilter usefully when I'm playing solo in pubs, when I am playing in the league in a private match, I'm always at 100 + ping connected on the east coast thru some crazy route. I cant even have on ping optimizer because it will just add even more ping. Friends on PC say they can use exitlag to get their ping down to 50-70. Which is way better than my 100. Since I'm not PC I can't use  exitlag. I'm thinking about ordering this gear up game booster. However, if you heros at netduma could implement that feature, that would really change the game. I'd even pay a monthly or yearly subscription for the feature. Like let me choose the path or node I want or just optimize my route. Please save us West Coast comp players. 

[Netduma Fraser]

For now I'd say the chances are slim, if we did one ourselves that would essentially involve us becoming a VPN company as well, we did play around with the idea of providing a VPN service ourselves very early on and decided not to pursue it for various reasons. 

[COACH]

Ahhh bummer. I didn't think that would involve a VPN. But now that you mention it, I guess altering the route you take to have the most direct efficient path to the game server would be a VPN service of some kind. Damn. I guess I gotta just switch to PC. Just won't be able to optimize my Internet or game for that matter any further on console. Bummer for sure hit a wall for audio and Internet now. 

[Netduma Fraser]

13 hours ago, COACH said:

Ahhh bummer. I didn't think that would involve a VPN. But now that you mention it, I guess altering the route you take to have the most direct efficient path to the game server would be a VPN service of some kind. Damn. I guess I gotta just switch to PC. Just won't be able to optimize my Internet or game for that matter any further on console. Bummer for sure hit a wall for audio and Internet now. 

Yes exactly, they are essentially a different kind of VPN service. Never say never but I can't see it for the foreseeable unfortunately.

[bbursley]

On 3/19/2025 at 10:29 PM, COACH said:

What are the chances of the R3 getting a feature that would allow us to get the fastest connection to the gaming server we are playing on. I play on Xbox series X. I play in a call of duty HC SnD league but it's mainly east coast and I live on the West. So while I find the geofilter usefully when I'm playing solo in pubs, when I am playing in the league in a private match, I'm always at 100 + ping connected on the east coast thru some crazy route. I cant even have on ping optimizer because it will just add even more ping. Friends on PC say they can use exitlag to get their ping down to 50-70. Which is way better than my 100. Since I'm not PC I can't use  exitlag. I'm thinking about ordering this gear up game booster. However, if you heros at netduma could implement that feature, that would really change the game. I'd even pay a monthly or yearly subscription for the feature. Like let me choose the path or node I want or just optimize my route. Please save us West Coast comp players. 

So heres the thing. The internet uses BGP to determine routes. AFAIK, you can only check against BGP routes that your ISP is open to. So for example, my ISP peers with itself, Hurricane Electric, Cogent, Twelve99, and NTT. When a connection request goes out, BGP is used to determine the "best path", or thats how its suppose to work. 

I learned this because I wanted to change routes to the COD servers (like have my ISP use NTT), but they said they cannot just change it, since again, BGP determines the path. Maybe theres a way ISPs can do it, but maybe its a feature only possible on certain enterprise level routers, not sure since im not a network engineer here. 

Netduma cannot alter your BGP pathways, you yourself would have to have an ASN, and a firewall capable of setting routes (its even more complicated than that im sure). 

Point really is that...you are likely better off just finding a decent quality VPN, and then setting that on the Netduma side of things. This will only really benefit I would think, if the VPN provider isnt too far away, that way you can quickly bump your traffic over to them, and then they can handle it the rest of the way.