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How Smart Location picks a server

Smart Location compares latency, load, stability and distance, and connects you to the best server right now. You can always pick a city yourself.

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Smart Location is the default. Each time you connect, it scores every available server by:

  • Latency, measured from your phone while PryVPN is disconnected.
  • Load: how busy the server is right now.
  • Stability: how many packets get lost.
  • Distance, estimated from which server answers fastest. PryVPN never reads your location.

It shows the reason for its choice, such as low latency or a light load. Servers in maintenance are skipped, and busy servers stop receiving new people until they calm down.

Every connection also comes with a backup server, in another city when possible, ready in case the first one stops responding. See Automatic switching.

Want a specific country? Pick it in Locations: Choosing a location.

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