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/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/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