If you instead use our UK via Singapore or UK via Thailand connections you should have a much faster connection to the UK – you’ll be connecting to a data centre in Singapore or Thailand that has a direct route under the sea straight to the UK – fast, more expensive bandwidth on a premium tier 1 network connection. We created our ‘via’ routes to help: they use the best connections to route traffic quickly across the globe.įor instance, if you’re in Asia and you want to connect to the UK, if you connect straight to the UK you’ll be using a fast connection around the country you’re in, but the international traffic from there will probably use cheap bandwidth on slow connections. For manually created VPN connections with the L2TP protocol (L2TP over IPSec), you may set up a manual split tunneling mechanism to direct the Internet traffic to a certain target (IP) through the VPN. What you want is the fastest route from your location to the server that hosts the content you need to access, but it’s sometimes hard to know which connections will be the best. Option 2: Use the command line to define split tunneling rules.
However, when it comes to downloading content quickly there are quite a few variables. Ping times shown on the application’s Select Country screen indicate which VPN server has the fastest connection to you, so choosing a server with a low ping time is a good start.
