Find the closest available VPN server to a certain IP address

[rearearea]

Hello,
I connect from Osaka (Japan) to a Quake Live server located in Korea (always the same server). If I connect straight to Korea my ISP routes the connection to Tokyo and back to Korea, raising my ping between 90-100 (there are some issues somewhere in Tokyo, like a bottleneck).

I have been using WTFast for sometime, having a good 40 ping, which is awesome. In the latest weeks, I'm not sure why, my ping is always 90-100 regardless WTFast.
I was hoping to be able to find a good VPN very close to the server I use and give it a try. But how can I know which would be the closest? Any way to know this?

Also any advice to improve my ping (which is vital for a game like QL) is welcome.

BTW, I already contacted WTFast technical support (waiting for a reply).

Thanks

 

[Alabalcho]

You have no control over how your ISP routes the data between you and the rest of the world (and any VPN server is also "rest of the world").

 

[bill001g]

To get what you want there would have to be a ISP that had a connection in the city you are in as well as the city server is in and had a more or less direct connection between them.

So first this must exist and you must somehow find this isp. This would not be a VPN provider but more likely one of the very large providers of international fiber. Also because of the costs fiber is not run from the ocean into every city, it only goes into selected ones. Tokyo is special in most the fiber from asia and north america is connected their.

So lets assume some magic fiber exists. If you were really rich you could have them run a connection from their location in your city to your house and a connection from their location in the server city directly to the ISP that has the connection to the server.

Now a VPN provider is a customer of ISP just like you. If they happen to have bought service on this fiber strand they then have the ability to provide a better latency BUT they can not afford to buy connection on all fiber connections so you never really know.

On top of this the VPN service must buy a connection to your ISP as well as one of the game company ISP. If the only access to the VPN providers network from your ISP is say via the USA then the VPN service would go all the way to the USA and back just to get to the node in your same city.

There really is no good solution to the problem if the ISP you have access to can not provide a good connection. Most times finding information about which companies have access to what fibers will be extremely difficult. It is not that this information is all the secret they just don't bother to give it to people who are not going to spend money with them. If you were a big company you could get the various ISP to come in and they would give you presentation on how their fiber networks are connected.

 

[rearearea]

Thank you for your reply!
I wonder how WTFast works. I could actually have a nice improvement on my ping (80-->40), but now something changed and the ping is not good anymore, even worse.

With my ISP and no VPN my ping can vary day by day, from 130 to 60; I guess it's related to the amount of traffic in that specific time.

I don't want to change my ISP just to play a single game on a specific server (there are servers in Japan too, but there are no players most of the time).

I guess I'll just try to play the days that I can have a decent ping...