Originally Posted by
XtrmJosh
As you're a scouser, I will give you the benefit of my knowledge!
Normally when you connect to a server, your computer connects to a server, which connects to another server, and so on until eventually you reach the server you are aiming for.
Using a proxy designed for gaming (especially those which target particular games) increases the efficiency by using privately leased servers with direct connections between each other. If you do a traceroute on a connection between your PC and a website, you will see a fucked up path (in fact, when I connect to my work computer, I go from UK -> Canada -> Western France -> East coast USA -> Cambridge (30 miles physical distance, some 5000 miles copper distance). Using a proxy, as you can imagine, that would be a much shorter distance.
