Tencent to Block Unapproved Foreign Games on Its Booster App in China

[Peter_Brosdahl]

Tencent has announced it will begin blocking unapproved foreign games on its internet speed-boosting app, Tencent Online Game Accelerator, on May 31. The app improves internet speeds but has allowed access to games not approved for release in China.

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[Grimlakin]

So it's some kind of lower latency VPN? Interesting.

 

[Brian_B]

There used to be similar services here in the US. I can’t recall any offhand but they would claim to be able to route better to where game datacenters were, and that routers would prioritize encrypted traffic

 

[Zarathustra]

It is counter-intuitive, but sometimes VPN's actually result in lower pings to some places, by slecting a better route.

IN a general purpose VPN it is totally random though, and on average the ping is higher, but on occasion it works the other way.