likke April 3, 2025, 6:27 p.m.

Region locked from cash cups - anyone know best vpn for fortnite without fps drops?

My acc got locked from eu cash cups cuz i moved to college in US but all my earnings/pr still on eu leaderboards. Wanna keep playin eu tournies with my trio but also need stable connection. Tried my roommates expressvpn but fps tanks whenever build battles get intense. Getting like 140 ping + mad frame drops which = instant death against eu demons. Dont care about cost i just need smth that wont destroy my frames during stacked endgames. Apparently some vpns better optimized for fortnite than others?? Any comp players actually solving this or am i just chalked this season? Trying to qual for dreamhack but these 22 bomb qualifiers ain't happenin on 140 ping lmao

superior April 3, 2025, 10:54 p.m.

Oh look, another person looking to artificially lower ping while screwing over people actually living in that region. VPNs don't magically make your data travel faster across the Atlantic. Physics exists, deal with it

74aa April 4, 2025, 12:02 a.m.

Just buy one of those gaming routers with built-in vpn capability? Fixed my packet loss + helped w/ routing. Netduma r2 got my ping from 90 to 65 instantly. Still paying same for internet but connection actually usable now

TIM April 4, 2025, 8:21 p.m.

Bruh no vpn gonna solve your cross-continental ping problems lmaooo. You're trying to make data physically travel 4000 miles faster than possible. Either play NA tournaments or move back to EU, ain't no middle ground here

centrius April 5, 2025, 1:34 p.m.

Wonder how many ppl using vpns to play cash cups until epic adds ping verification… literally 10+ ppl in my discord using asian vpns to play oceania tournaments cuz prize pools easier with way less people qualifying. Games broken af right now

Hitroy April 6, 2025, 7:55 p.m.

college internet notorious for throttling gaming traffic. ran wireshark for week - confirmed my campus blocking udp ports fortnite uses during peak hours to save bandwidth

worldkill April 6, 2025, 11:47 p.m.

OMG THIS!!!!! Totally fixed by logging into router admin (192.168.1.1) and changing default 3 digit port to something random in 40000+ range. Went from constant disconnects to zero issues

Frost_800 April 7, 2025, 4:16 p.m.

Yall realize comp integrity going down drain with this vpn tournament stuff right? How u supposed to know who actually qualified legit vs who using location spoofing? Whole leaderboard system meaningless at this point smh

hoplitt83 April 8, 2025, 6:27 p.m.

Im OCE player but lived in canada last summerand surfshark completely saved me from missing quals. Trick is selecting server location geographically closest to game server not ur "home" region. Check fortnitetracker for server ip addresses then pick closest vpn node to that

zhs April 11, 2025, 10:40 p.m.

Maybe unpopular take but playing on high ping actually improved my game? Was forced into learning better piece control + edit timing when I couldn't rely on taking walls. 100+ ping forced smarter plays not just w-keying every fight

Wild April 15, 2025, 9:21 p.m.

Your issue could be DNS propagation delay causing additional fortnite route hops rather than true throttling. Good VPNs basically create more efficient routing tables avoiding Internet backbone congestion points

2005 April 21, 2025, 12:53 a.m.

LMAO at "region locked" = u trying 2 play tournaments ur not eligible for. against TOS. enjoy getting reported & banned. hard enough 2 place in cash cups w/o dealing w/ vpn warriors taking spots from actual regional players ๐Ÿ˜‘

Terian April 28, 2025, 8:30 p.m.

might sound dumb but friend at verizon told me they specifically throttle fortnite ports before other games bc of bandwidth consumption. Switching DNS to cloudflare fixed without needing vpn

Art0788 April 29, 2025, 2:08 a.m.

Bruh this is EXACTLY what was happening to me. Used google dns (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4) and now steady 25 ping from previously unstable 60-80. Actual life changer for free

deen979 May 4, 2025, 7:05 p.m.

My dad works IT for big uni - says 90% of gaming connection issues on campus just roommates secretly downloading "totally legal homework files" from torrents lmao. Check ur bandwidth monitor when ur laggy, bet someone's downloading game of thrones

Djgrin1 May 11, 2025, 10:39 p.m.

Tried everything under sun for 3 months. Ended up with nordvpn gaming preset which surprisingly didn't completely tank my frames. Still higher ping but at least stable without the random spikes that were killing me during tournaments

SONY123456 May 17, 2025, 5:07 p.m.

I feel ur pain. Living in hawaii is endgame ping simulator 24/7 

200+ to any server, builds place 3 days after i click

Learned to predict where enemies gonna be before they know themselves lol

pleomax100 May 20, 2025, 9:50 p.m.

just buy better internet 4head