How to set up and use Smart Route
Updated 20 Oct 2026
Smart Route uses the official WireGuard for Windows client, signed by WireGuard LLC, to build its split-tunnel. The first time you route a game, Smart Route installs it in one click from WireGuard’s own site and checks that signature before it runs.
Steps
- Open Smart Route. Click Network in the app’s left rail; it opens on Smart Route. If WireGuard isn’t installed yet, the page offers Install WireGuard now.
- Check your plan. Measuring your route is free for everyone. Engaging a relay needs Ultra (everything in Pro, plus Smart Route, ₹899 a year), and the page says so up front. You can get Ultra here.
- Launch your game. Smart Route detects the running game and its server automatically, and shows the detected server and your direct ping.
- Press “Test my route.” It measures the direct path and the relay path, then engages the relay only if it measures faster — otherwise it stays direct and tells you.
- Stop any time. Stop — back to direct returns you to your direct route immediately. Smart Route also switches back on its own if the relay stops being faster.
FAQ
Which games does it work with?
Titles in Smart Route’s server-fed game catalogue. Every title is classified for ban-safety by its anti-cheat, and titles with kernel anti-cheat, or an anti-cheat we have not verified, are manual-only, so you decide. Whether relayed traffic is allowed is always the publisher’s rule; see Will Smart Route get me banned?
It says “staying direct” — is something wrong?
No — that’s Smart Route being honest. It measured your direct route as already faster than (or equal to) the relay, so it left you on it. A relay only helps when your ISP’s path is genuinely worse.
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