To give context, I had really bad ping (200-300ms) in a video game I played and many people suggested that I used Mudfish, I tried it and it improved my ping dramatically (2-5ms). A couple of months went by and I noticed that my ping was sitting at (2-5ms) however I actually had forgot to enable mudfish this time. I thought it was too good to be true, my actual ping had been fixed? I wanted to be 100% sure my actual network’s ping had been fixed so I tried uninstalling and deleting Mudfish to check if the ping would still be the same, and sure enough it was still the same. A few weeks later however my ping went back to how it previously was (200-300ms).
Fast forward to today, sick of being on 200-300ms ping again, I gave Mudfish another shot. I installed it again and turned it on and my ping was fixed. Then when I went to disable it again, my ping remained the same (2-5ms). I uninstalled Mudfish once again to check if it was my actual network ping and sure enough once again my actual network’s ping has been fixed.
So I now have a weird suspicion that turning on Mudfish is somehow improving my actual network’s routing, but is this even possible? It seems like a weird coincidence my actual ping gets fixed when I turn on this VPN and then turn it back off. Why would this be happening?