Will a VPN slow my Netflix and ruin my ping?

Short answer: a good one won't. Long answer: here's exactly what a VPN does to latency, throughput, and CDN routing.

A VPN adds one extra hop to your traffic. On a well-engineered network, that hop costs 2–8 ms — invisible for video, mild for competitive gaming. On a bad network it costs 80 ms and you'll feel it instantly.

ScreenConnect Vault uses WireGuard under the hood. It's the leanest tunnel protocol in production today, and our servers peer directly with major streaming CDNs to avoid backhaul detours.

In our internal benchmarks against a baseline 1 Gbps fibre line, Plus users see less than 4% throughput loss and under 6 ms added latency on the nearest server.