Servers in Sweden have low utilization

[Hypertext1071 6]

Random question that I was always curious about, does anyone know why most of the servers in Sweden have such low utilization? Doesn't seem to happen for any other country.

[Tech Jedi Alex 1518]

Looking in Eddie, I can deduce a possible reason.

If the scoring rule is set to Speed, which is the default, only four servers actually get a non-zero score, putting only those four into consideration of the Connect to best server function. The client count reflects that.
I quick-tested a connection to Sweden on Android, and Copernicus was chosen to be the best server.. huh.

Also interesting: The first three are hosted by Altushost, Segin is Netrouting, rest seems to be Kustbandet. ISP might play a role here, too.

[Hypertext1071 6]

I think that would definitely explain it, I'm guessing most people use Eddie to connect to AirVPN servers, and pick whatever server has the highest score. I just read your other posts going into detail on how the score for speed was calculated. Since ping, load percentage and user percentage are all comparable, it seems like that "Penality" factor must be extremely high then for the servers located in Uppsala.

[Tech Jedi Alex 1518]

Doesn't take much for the score to be reduced to 0 stars, though. Certainly doesn't need the penalty value to be set  (it's set nowhere in SE).
I don't understand the "speed" scoring, anyway. Neither does it relate to theoretically achievable throughput (load), nor to a stable connection (clients). It's illogical for me why a server with 96% usage and 165 clients gets a similar score as a 28% usage server with a whopping 335 clients connected. The scoring by latency makes more sense in that those 23-37 ms servers get 5* and Menkab only 3-4. We really need better scoring rules…