Where can I find a VPN type service online that I can route all my traffic through?

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VulcaN

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Im trying to connect to my WoW server but there is trouble with a router between my ISP (comcast) and the server.

This is happening to hundreds of people in the DC Metro area and I'm hoping there is a way around it.

Cant I route all my traffic through a server somewhere, that way my traffic goes to that server, and then from there goes to blizzards site, hopefully taking a route that does not have any bad routers?

I dont mind paying for it as long as its not like more than $100 a month or something and it has to allow the ports that WoW uses obviously, not just web traffic.

Thanks for any help! :)
 
First off, talk to comcast about the issue. Is it a latency issue?

http://www.broadbandreports.com/badrouters
^ I find it very hard to believe that a large portion of the DC area is experiencing routing issues and there are no signs of this.:confused:

Also, you can google for VPN services.. there are a few out there that offer what you want, though they're mainly for corporations with a good amount of cash. Your best bet might be collocating a VPN concentrator/server and take it from there. But remember, with VPN there is also going to be a good amount of latency because of the tunneling involved in every packet transmission.
 
What you're trying to do is similar to using a proxy. There are free open proxies out there but they're normally dog-slow. There's also tor which does a similar thing, I'm guessing it's just as slow. I don't know of any commercial offerings off-hand though.
 
xphil3 said:
First off, talk to comcast about the issue. Is it a latency issue?

http://www.broadbandreports.com/badrouters
^ I find it very hard to believe that a large portion of the DC area is experiencing routing issues and there are no signs of this.:confused:

Also, you can google for VPN services.. there are a few out there that offer what you want, though they're mainly for corporations with a good amount of cash. Your best bet might be collocating a VPN concentrator/server and take it from there. But remember, with VPN there is also going to be a good amount of latency because of the tunneling involved in every packet transmission.
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Comcast doesnt care and it might not even be their problem from what I was reading on the WoW forum.

There are plenty signs of it, look in this thread if you are curious for plenty of unhappy customers:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=67326867&sid=1&pageNo=1

And yes, I was aware there would be a little lag because of the tunneling, I just dont know how much? I figured I'd have to try it for myself and see if it was worth it.

I did google for some services and didnt find anything that I thought would work I was hoping someone on here could point me to something that would work.
:confused:
 
okay, .. would you mind posting a quick trace route to say google,yahoo, and the WoW server you connect to?

also, I read this really quick but it did say it was "service-based"
www.positivenetworks.com

but like i said, you could always collocate something.
 
Here is me routing to google:

Tracing route to www.l.google.com [72.14.209.99]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms bf-in-f99.google.com [72.14.209.99]
2 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.100.1
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 13 ms 15 ms 16 ms ge-4-14-ur01.rockville.md.bad.comcast.net [68.87.136.17]
5 14 ms 16 ms 16 ms te-9-1-ur01.chillum.dc.bad.comcast.net [68.87.128.217]
6 15 ms 14 ms 20 ms te-9-1-ur01.michiganave.dc.bad.comcast.net [68.87.128.210]
7 18 ms 26 ms 18 ms te-9-1-ur01.benning.dc.bad.comcast.net [68.87.128.165]
8 17 ms 17 ms 20 ms te-7-2-ar01.capitolhghts.md.bad.comcast.net [68.87.128.174]
9 21 ms 22 ms 21 ms 68.86.252.214
10 22 ms 28 ms 18 ms 68.86.90.93
11 30 ms 54 ms 19 ms ge-5-1-125.ipcolo1.Washington1.Level3.net [63.210.62.157]
12 20 ms 21 ms 32 ms GOOGLE-INC.car1.Level3.net [4.79.228.38]
13 30 ms 31 ms 46 ms 72.14.238.136
14 40 ms 55 ms 51 ms 72.14.239.17
15 37 ms 35 ms 49 ms 216.239.47.165
16 38 ms 58 ms 44 ms bf-in-f99.google.com [72.14.209.99]
Trace complete

Here is the server:

Tracing route to 63.241.255.67 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 63.241.255.67
2 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.100.1
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 126 ms 128 ms 119 ms ge-4-14-ur01.rockville.md.bad.comcast.net [68.87.136.17]
5 145 ms 158 ms 170 ms te-9-1-ur01.chillum.dc.bad.comcast.net [68.87.128.217]
6 201 ms 182 ms 204 ms te-9-1-ur01.michiganave.dc.bad.comcast.net [68.87.128.210]
7 251 ms 256 ms 245 ms te-9-1-ur01.benning.dc.bad.comcast.net [68.87.128.165]
8 273 ms 269 ms 291 ms te-7-2-ar01.capitolhghts.md.bad.comcast.net [68.87.128.174]
9 291 ms 275 ms 295 ms pos-2-1-cr01.ritchieroad.md.core.comcast.net [68.87.16.157]
10 332 ms 337 ms 340 ms 12.118.122.5
11 422 ms * * tbr1-p010401.wswdc.ip.att.net [12.123.8.26]
12 * 404 ms * tbr1-cl4.sl9mo.ip.att.net [12.122.10.30]
13 54 ms 54 ms 55 ms tbr2-cl6.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.122.10.90]
14 52 ms 55 ms 52 ms br2-a3120s9.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.123.16.213]
15 55 ms 56 ms 53 ms 12.122.255.226
16 62 ms 66 ms 54 ms mdf001c7613r0003-gig-10-1.dal1.attens.net [63.241.193.10]
17 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
Trace Complete
 
VulcaN said:
Here is me routing to google:

Tracing route to www.l.google.com [72.14.209.99]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms bf-in-f99.google.com [72.14.209.99]
2 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.100.1
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 13 ms 15 ms 16 ms ge-4-14-ur01.rockville.md.bad.comcast.net [68.87.136.17]
5 14 ms 16 ms 16 ms te-9-1-ur01.chillum.dc.bad.comcast.net [68.87.128.217]
6 15 ms 14 ms 20 ms te-9-1-ur01.michiganave.dc.bad.comcast.net [68.87.128.210]
7 18 ms 26 ms 18 ms te-9-1-ur01.benning.dc.bad.comcast.net [68.87.128.165]
8 17 ms 17 ms 20 ms te-7-2-ar01.capitolhghts.md.bad.comcast.net [68.87.128.174]
9 21 ms 22 ms 21 ms 68.86.252.214
10 22 ms 28 ms 18 ms 68.86.90.93
11 30 ms 54 ms 19 ms ge-5-1-125.ipcolo1.Washington1.Level3.net [63.210.62.157]
12 20 ms 21 ms 32 ms GOOGLE-INC.car1.Level3.net [4.79.228.38]
13 30 ms 31 ms 46 ms 72.14.238.136
14 40 ms 55 ms 51 ms 72.14.239.17
15 37 ms 35 ms 49 ms 216.239.47.165
16 38 ms 58 ms 44 ms bf-in-f99.google.com [72.14.209.99]
Trace complete

Here is the server:

Tracing route to 63.241.255.67 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 63.241.255.67
2 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.100.1
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 126 ms 128 ms 119 ms ge-4-14-ur01.rockville.md.bad.comcast.net [68.87.136.17]
5 145 ms 158 ms 170 ms te-9-1-ur01.chillum.dc.bad.comcast.net [68.87.128.217]
6 201 ms 182 ms 204 ms te-9-1-ur01.michiganave.dc.bad.comcast.net [68.87.128.210]
7 251 ms 256 ms 245 ms te-9-1-ur01.benning.dc.bad.comcast.net [68.87.128.165]
8 273 ms 269 ms 291 ms te-7-2-ar01.capitolhghts.md.bad.comcast.net [68.87.128.174]
9 291 ms 275 ms 295 ms pos-2-1-cr01.ritchieroad.md.core.comcast.net [68.87.16.157]
10 332 ms 337 ms 340 ms 12.118.122.5
11 422 ms * * tbr1-p010401.wswdc.ip.att.net [12.123.8.26]
12 * 404 ms * tbr1-cl4.sl9mo.ip.att.net [12.122.10.30]
13 54 ms 54 ms 55 ms tbr2-cl6.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.122.10.90]
14 52 ms 55 ms 52 ms br2-a3120s9.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.123.16.213]
15 55 ms 56 ms 53 ms 12.122.255.226
16 62 ms 66 ms 54 ms mdf001c7613r0003-gig-10-1.dal1.attens.net [63.241.193.10]
17 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
Trace Complete
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very strange, how far did you do these apart... your tr to google looks great.. the path doesn't look congested at all(~14ms), but on your second trace it takes the exact same path and you're experiencing 200+ms of latency. I would email that shit to comcast.

also, did you notice the names of the routers!

6 201 ms 182 ms 204 ms te-9-1-ur01.michiganave.dc.bad.comcast.net

that gave me the lulz:p
 
I did them about 20 seconds apart. The ping doesnt bother me, I dont mind lagging every once in a while just a little, its those dropped packets which disconnect me from the game making it unplayable and those always occur at AT&T.

I tried contacting that company you listed and they want $900 up front and $200 a month thereafter, looks like im SOL and no one has small packages available for a home user.

The first thing I thought of when I did a traceroute for the first time was

"WELL NO SHIT ITS NOT WORKING, put me on the "GOOD" routers!"
 
VulcaN said:
I did them about 20 seconds apart. The ping doesnt bother me, I dont mind lagging every once in a while just a little, its those dropped packets which disconnect me from the game making it unplayable and those always occur at AT&T.

I tried contacting that company you listed and they want $900 up front and $200 a month thereafter, looks like im SOL and no one has small packages available for a home user.

The first thing I thought of when I did a traceroute for the first time was

"WELL NO SHIT ITS NOT WORKING, put me on the "GOOD" routers!"
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Its not packets dropping really. When you see the timeouts, its most likely a router/firewall on AT&T or some other network dropping ICMP packets. That's not packet loss that would effect your gameplay. I think you need to bring those traceroutes to comcast technical support, tell them that their damn routers are labeled bad in the hostname!
 
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