# Your VPN Hates Your Video Conferencing. Here’s Why

- Link: https://www.agilicus.com/your-vpn-hates-your-video-conferencing-heres-why/
- Published: 2020-12-14T13:15:00+00:00
- Author: Don Bowman

Move the company network out to the users via VPN, break their video conferencing.
Didn’t know what was a thing? Assumed that all the problems with latency, lag, quality,
etc where due to poor home networks, older devices? It might surprise you that its
could be how your route your traffic. The corporate VPN.

In the video below I go through the dreaded hairpin, that line in red in the below
animation.

![Animated diagram illustrating how VPNs negatively impact video conferencing performance.
The animation shows network traffic flowing through a traditional VPN setup, highlighting
increased latency and bandwidth consumption due to unnecessary routing of video 
data through the VPN server. This results in a poor user experience with choppy 
video and audio. The diagram emphasizes that VPNs, while good for security, are 
not optimized for real-time applications like video conferencing, as all traffic,
including video, is forced through a single, often distant, VPN server. This causes
delays and reduces video quality, showcasing why 'Your VPN Hates Your Video Conferencing'.](
https://www.agilicus.com/www/963fcde9-vpn-flow_animated.svg)