Who Owns ExitLag?

The service traces to a single game. In the late 2000s, Brazilian teenager Leandro Sandmann played the MMORPG Tibia, whose servers all sat outside Brazil. Lag and packet loss made competitive play miserable. Sandmann, who had been writing software since age 11, built a routing tool with fellow player Fabiano Skowronski to send game packets along faster paths.

The tool launched commercially around 2010 under the name TibiaTunnel and spread by word of mouth among Tibia players. As demand grew, the pair renamed it ExitLag and expanded support to more games, converting a niche utility into a general-purpose connection optimizer for online gaming.

The company's model stayed simple: a paid subscription grants access to software that maps multiple routes between the user's machine and the game server, then splits and rejoins traffic across the fastest available path through a worldwide server network. This multipath approach distinguishes it from ordinary VPNs, which route all traffic through a single tunnel.

In 2019 ExitLag moved its headquarters to Florida to get closer to the North American market while keeping deep roots in Brazil. The June 2021 Haste acquisition brought in a rival's technology and its esports partnerships. Partnerships with gaming media networks, including a renewed deal with Enthusiast Gaming announced in March 2022, pushed the brand in front of US audiences.

Through the mid-2020s ExitLag added mobile support for Android and iOS, broadened its game catalog into the thousands, and grew to roughly 150 to 200 employees spread across about 10 countries. It remains one of the most recommended game tunneling services worldwide, competing on price and game coverage.