i got 5 dollars for this review

I would like to say a few things about this and its dev team.

First, I am rather disappointed that the team behind this piece of software would bribe customers into leaving positive reviews just because of bad reception. It's very disappointed and I *have* lost some confidence in them.

However, to be bluntly honest most of these reviews hardly even used the software. Until now I've been using the non-steam version, and the steam release I thought was a great idea. But seeing these reviews that played for not even an hour, not even 30 minutes, has only worsened my thoughts on the gaming community. (Then again, I'm not sure why I expected anything better.)

Anyways, I first started using WTFast almost a month ago and I've not paid a single dime, and I can confidently say it has worked like a dream for Final Fantasy XIV. It brought my 130ms ping down to 80ms, which helped make some raids actually possible, and on some occassions where my internet was in a bad mood, it even dropped it from 230ms to 80ms. I was thoroughly impressed *and* satisfied with how the piece of software actually worked, i'll admit I was even surprised when I first got it.

I think what the bad reviews are from, is a result of people defaulting to the automatic system or over-complaining about the software "not opening their game" when running it. Honestly, the former I think is a very real problem. However when I took the time to find a good server to manually connect to, which barely took 10 minutes, my ping has never gone above 100ms with the exception of rare spikes. The "not opening game" I think is a bug, and a minimal one at that. All I had to do was start Final Fantasy XIV myself, and connect to the server and it worked just fine.

Honestly, I'm getting sick of the bandwagon reviews that use the software for 15 minutes before trashing it. This is not constructive whatsoever, and I believe all reviews written as such should be disallowed to avoid such bombing. Put yourself in the devs shoes, who are legitimately trying to produce something and make a living. I don't blame them for getting desperate, though I'm still quite disgusted by the bribe scenario.

Either way, I'm hoping at least *some* people read and acknowledge this review before it gets drowned out in another mass of "constructive criticism."

Keep working WTFast, you're piece of software is fine. Just keep at it, and don't make any more PR flops. Don't let the steam community push you around.

Here's my unbiased review of this application.

1. It actually works. I play Tree of Savior with it and it gives a MASSIVE decrease in ping, from 600ms to a manageable 250ms. I have yet to test it with other games but so far so good.

2. Premium does NOTHING. Absolutely NOTHING. I paid for 2 Days Advanced and it gave me 52ms - for an hour TOPS. I can't believe I wasted $2.49 for something that does nothing (except remove ads).

3. It ranges from terribly unresponsive (hangs from time to time) to utterly disruptive (it sometimes kicks you out of the game by forcibly "removing" your Internet connection for no reason at all).

Would I recommend it? I don't really know, but it works for me despite its shortcomings.

I have used WTFast for over a year now, just not on steam. It's absolutely invaluable to me, at least for FFXIV. It's important to understand how it works though, it will not work for everyone or in every situation. It's not a magic piece of software that allows your internet to violate the speed of light or ignore the fact that your connection needs to pass through a multitude of machines before it gets to its destination. It simply routes your connection through their own, more straightforward network. If you use the wrong settings or their automatic routing chooses incorrectly (it did a few times during the beta, but I haven't had problems since) then it may make your connection WORSE.

I live in Australia. I play FFXIV on a Japanese server. Australia is physically pretty close to Japan, so my ping should not be that high. However, my ISP's routing takes me halfway around the bloody world instead of the most direct route, so my ping to the server is ~350-430ms, which makes it impossible to do things like dodge AoEs. With WTFast on, my ping was cut to ~130ms, +/- 10ms or so. It was like night and day, content that seemed impossible became very doable. The game became much more enjoyable.

However, if you're in a situation where you, say, live in and play a game in the US, and you have a low ping already, and your routing to the server isn't very suboptimal, this will do basically NOTHING for you. Try out the trial!

That's not to say that it's always useless for servers within the same country. I had to use it for a while while playing LoL, for example, because though the Australian servers gave me a nice low ping of ~30ms, there was a router somewhere along the way that would often misbehave and drop packets or spike my ping ridiculously high. WTFast did smooth that out with its alternate route, allowing me to play.

For the most part, it does not help me with connecting to games in the US, because my ISP's routing to there is pretty good to begin with. Like I said, it will not work for every situation. But for some, it might as well be ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ witchcraft.

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I have been using this since the inception and I have to say that first and foremost, the idea of simplifying internet routing for the consumer market is a naturally daunting task. The amount of non-tech savvy and younger members of the audience of steam is VERY difficult to appease. A difficult project.

I play TF2 competitively accross south east asia from Malaysia, a country noptorious for multiple routing issues even to it's neighbour Singapore. Having to play to servers in countires such as Korea, Japan and Australia I have to say that WTFast as a service has been very helpful in solving many routing issues I have had.

As a more tech savvy user I am impressed with the architecture and a free version that has popped up has been extremely useful. However I can se why many people would be irritated by the results without some experimentation.

Do I reccomend this software? To the slightly above average man who knows routing.
To a newbie? Try the free version and do some light reading, you may be surprised =]

After much reading of the negative comments, I must disagree and wtfast did help reducing my lag/ping much better and also it helps on FaceIt.com

Kudos to Wtfast, I know the constant hard work you are doing. One suggestion is to add other country currencies in your page eg. Malaysia / Singapore. I'm trying out that 7days trial until them I will purchase th full year and you can count on that.

Why do some of you guys blame this software? Sometimes my ping in dota2 get more than 200 and wtfast reduces it to between 40 and 80 and that helps a lot. Im in Viet Nam btw

It really helps for playing blade and soul, insurgency etc. It reduces my blade and soul ping from 300 to 110 and my insurgency ping from 90 to 29.
I dunno about the paid version, but the free version is already good enough.
Yes, it works, people...

REALLY GOOD SOFTWARE!!
I play Age of wushu ( VietNam ). I have used WTFast for over a year now, just not on steam. It's very helpful.It basically halved my ping from 250+ to 50 ms.