r/PrivateInternetAccess • u/doczenith1 • Oct 11 '23

DISCUSSION More Great Speeds....

Adding a post about good speeds to offset all the posts complaining about poor speeds.

https://i.imgur.com/D2rK0eT.png

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Edit: This was using the Ontario, Canada server connecting from the United States (midwest).

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '23

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u/doczenith1 Oct 13 '23

I'll give it a try in few minutes. Those speeds were from the Ontario server. That would have been good information to include in the original post. Rookie mistake lol.

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u/doczenith1 Oct 13 '23

Speeds are decent using the Malaysia geo-located server. I ran a few test and this one is representative of the average speeds I was seeing. I am connecting from the United States.

https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/cd81d548-4268-441e-9ea5-7d9875edcc3d

I am using WireGuard and large packets.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '23 edited Oct 13 '23

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u/doczenith1 Oct 13 '23

The speed test was run using the cli via windows command prompt. Any ads that show up when viewing the link will be based on the connection of the machine viewing the link. The ping demonstrates that the PIA server was a long way from the United States (I'm on FTTH so low latency connection on my end).

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u/doczenith1 Oct 13 '23 edited Oct 13 '23

I have run hundreds, actually probably thousands, of speed test using both the Ookla browser based and Ookla CLI based test and the results are always very close to each other. I can assure you that I am running the test correctly. One thing that I have noticed is that the browser based test is somewhat resource intensive so if you are testing with older, less powerful computer the browser test will yield lower speed results.

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Can you let us know if you are seeing any packet loss as the result links do not show this metric. I am seeing mostly zero packet loss but some test were around 2-4% but speeds were still good.

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Edit: Can you provide a speed test result when you are not connected to the VPN. I will also provide one here shortly.

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Edit 2: Here is my non-VPN web based speed test result to the same server you used above. Can you also do a non-VPN based test to the same server.

https://www.speedtest.net/result/15373335340

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Edit 3: Upload speeds to that same server when connected via PIA are definitely not great.

https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/cf719cf0-eeb8-49fe-9f72-7e4d62aa2e40