Why secure VPN reduce ping?

Although it is an uncommon situation, it is possible. There could be a lot of answers.

It is probably about the inteal structure of your network provider. What could help a lot, if you would give us a result of your tracert -d 1.2.3.4 command, where 1.2.3.4 is the IP what you pinged, and you would edit into your question.

Without that, I think the most probable reason is the network organization of your ISP.

The ISPs also need to pay for the network of different providers. In most cases, they are continously trying to find the cheapest / best providers, thus in most cases they use different routing for a near-area and for the far, remote locations. Of course, network for them is mostly much cheaply, while the network for the local area is mostly done by a regional organization established by a group of local ISPs or by the local govement.

It is normal for the ISPs to pay only a much narrower network bandwidth from the costlier part, especially if you are from a small ISP or use a cheap package.

If you use the VPN, this VPN connected probably on the faster exteal network of your ISP, thus it were faster. And, the VPN provider uses probably a much faster network as your network provider.

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