I don’t know why this feature doesn’t just pick whatever has the lowest ping, because it’s hugely preferring the lowest load location. I live near Kansas City, Kansas but what that button does is redirect me to Cub, Chicago. Cub has a ping of 49 and about 5% loaded. KC has a ping of 4 and about 30% loaded. Cub essentially cuts my speed by a third from KC, and it’s not so loaded that it actually needs to offload me at this time. So why does clicking that button always do that?
The blog says it picks lowest ping, but obviously that’s not true and I’m measuring ping by what the windscribe client is saying. Not a big problem since it connects to last used location but just weird.
Best location is something that never worked for me accurately for most vpn and idk why actually.
If it works usually just for a few connections or days and then reverts again to choose the USA or some other far away country for me ( iam from Germany ) exact same behavior over multiple vpn.
My guess is that the pinging fails or is too slow then just picks the next best thing or something.
At least on Android, if I manually close and restart the app it will refresh with the best locations but it never does it on the first try. I always get sent to Dallas, which is on the other side of the planet. The servers I use also don’t show latency all of the time. Just a – where the ping should be. It makes me nervous if the servers are online or not.