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I have for years explicitly avoided all the servers in Uppsala due to very slow speeds. Everything will load slowly. These two tests were performed right after each other. Server Alula (Uppsala Sweden): 6% usage, 117/2000 in Eddie I get: 4.61mbit/s download, 26.85mbit/s upload with 24ms latency. Server Fuyue (Frankfurt Germany): I get: 390.14mbit/s download, 369.53mbit/s upload with 28ms latency.

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.

I deliberately avoid the Uppsala servers when using Sweden because they perform so poorly. They are extremely slow in the same way the decommissioned Stockholm server Ain was, which got thankfully replaced by Segin. Screenshots from Speedtest to show the vast difference. First two of the Stockholm servers. Segin Lupus Then two of the Uppsala servers. Albali Benetnasch

Many Swedish servers have low speed if you do a speed test. Copernicus Lupus Norma and segin have good speeds but the others are very slow.

What would be the interface from which the users can vote? Client area? Eddie? API? All of those? Don't know about the practicality of such a rating, though, it's highly subjective whether a server works for you or not, doesn't incorporate the setups of users (Access tech? Specific problematic ISPs?)…

Perhaps a result of some benchmark could be factored in the scoring function. I assume a server with better hardware would be able handle more connections. On a second thought, this would probably require quite some work (unless this data already exists), and a change in the API because AFAIK it only returns bandwidth utilization of the server in the current version.

Would it be a good idea to also add scoring from users? Maybe there could be some score where it is averaged from user ratings. This would seem like a good way for staff to know how servers perform for most users as well.

I checked Eddie on Linux and Android in parallel, thrice, with some delay between them. Star ratings from Linux with Speed rule. #1, Subra seems like the better one due to latency. Linux: Subra 13ms 62% 119u (3-star) Android: Taiyi 26 ms 65% 112u (0-star) #2 Diphda seems slightly better due to latency and load. Linux: Diphda 12ms 48% 128u (3-star) Android: Taiyi 18ms 65% 112u (0-star) #3 After a ~15min delay. Very similar results, but Linux chose again marginally better. Linux: Garnet 13ms 56% 121u (3-star) Android: Taiyi 13ms 58% 124u (0-star) Android's fixation on Taiyi is interesting, but not a bad choice in all cases. #1 UK. Comparable. None is better than the other. Linux: Chow 26ms 29% 104u Android: Naos 24ms 35% 99u #2 Sweden. All are bad choices, even if Linux chose marginally better. The Kustbandet servers are somehow ignored completely, there are no load and no users on them. Linux: Norma 24ms 79% 167u Android: Copernicus 25ms 86% 162u #3 Japan. Iskandar is a slightly better choice. Linux: Iskandar 234ms 52% 76u Android: Albaldah 236ms 76% 85u In regards to the scoring rules, an idea. A math formula incorporating clients, load and latency, times a modifier for the scoring rule. Something that maybe rates clients, load and latency = 0 best, so one can use the lowest result. I'm not a math whiz, frankly, but maybe use a function where y grows exponentially. The parabola comes to mind, f(x) = x^2, where f(0) = 0. Drawing a bit in a graphical calculator, something like 0.0001 * x^2 * (modifier) * x looks promising. Calculate this for all three, sum the result, lowest is best server. Gives some flexibility in that it's easy to add further data points to the calculation, or a broader selection of modifiers. I think it would even enable users to set the modifiers themselves because all scores will be based on this parabola function. Modifier can also be in front, (mod*0.0001) * x^2. Then you'd set it as integer (default 1), and rising modifiers cause the curve to steepen quicker.

Hello! You may be right. According to your user feeling, what is the best selection of server using quick connection mode (i.e. you do not force a white list of any type) between Eddie Desktop, Eddie Android and AirVPN Suite (if you ran two or all of them)? And what is the software that achieves the best selection inside a single forced country (when the country offers multiple servers)? Kind regards

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.

Hello, automated renewals are not possible at all with 3 days plans. They are possible only with the "PayPal subscription" payment method with longer plans. Kind regards