Latency priority possible with country-wide ovpn?

[jaaxx 0]

Is it possible to pass a flag to trigger latency priority over speed priority server choice when using country-wide or continent-wide configs?

 

I understand the option is available in Eddie, but I would like to be able to trigger the same behavior via some flag in the ovpn file.

[go558a83nk 352]

Is it possible to pass a flag to trigger latency priority over speed priority server choice when using country-wide or continent-wide configs?

 

I understand the option is available in Eddie, but I would like to be able to trigger the same behavior via some flag in the ovpn file.

 

if you're using downloaded configs there's no backend that's polling the manifest update server....how would the openvpn client you're using know what servers are best?  I think you'd have to write your own code to use the API that Air provides.

[jaaxx 0]

See that's what I needed to know.  I figured it was a server side thing considering that the server pings all the others every 5 minutes.  Seems like there would be a table on the server for that info.

 

The server "chooses" based on speed by default no?  Why not ping?

[nick75 25]

Hi,

 

The servers don't choose anything. Eddie chooses depending on latency, speed or traffic.

If you download a config file for a country or a continent, when openvpn sends a dns request, the dns server will reply with the least busy server IP address at that moment. Whether it's the best for you or not isn't taken into account (the dns server cannot know that).