Is it safe to use WTFast or Battle ping to reduce latency?

[Sushieatingbunny]

Before, I used WTFast to play some international games and I'm wondering if this is safe for us FFXIV players? does it Violate any rule from the rules and regulation?

[Rhime]

What latency? Get some high speed cable internet...

[Shori]

although i'm not aware of it being against rules... why would you? sure the ping between the proxy and the server may be lower but youve still got to connect to the proxy so in other words you're putting your computer at risk connecting to a proxy to actually go further around thw world lol

[HEC]

From the strictly technical point of view there is no way of "improving" your (overall) latency by any kind of proxy-ing and you're actually puting yourself in the risk of having your login details being captured and used etc.

[Rekujen]

ignorance is bliss.

battleping works.

[Avorniel]

I use smoothping have done for over 7 years due to bad internet and can't upgrade due to location.Have no issues with any MMO when I have had to use it either from the mmo company or any account capture issues.It has reduced my ping from over 220ms to a steady 47ms I live in the UK

If you are worried just do what I did at first send a email and ask

[VisualDeadlock]

i use smoothping as well, the thing its done for me is pretty much eliminate the 90k errors. I play from HK and was geting those every few mins. Now I go hours upon hours without getting that error.

[mkaito]

I've been trying out WTFast with FFXIV, and it lowers my ping from 180 to 175. I guess I might be doing something wrong...

[Bixby]

It does not violate the user agreement.

[Shirai]

What latency? Get some high speed cable internet...

Sadly, even in 2013, this is not an option for everyone. I live in a country that provides some of the fastest internet connections on this planet and in some places (including some major cities) it's not even possible to get a stable 2Mbit DSL connection.

Aside from that, depending on the route your ISP takes to the datacenter you can even have a gigabit fiber connection giving you crap.

It does not violate the user agreement.

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This, you are safe, free and allowed to use a VPN to improve your connection with the datacenter.