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Community: Hang out with the Boleh family => General Discussion => Topic started by: Gnikf on August 17, 2012, 01:12:11 AM

Title: How do you decide which country to use?
Post by: Gnikf on August 17, 2012, 01:12:11 AM

For best speed, ping and overal perfomance, how do you decide which of the servers in different countries to use?
I suppose not always the nearest in miles is the best?

Title: Re: How do you decide which country to use?
Post by: Chris on August 17, 2012, 10:26:31 AM

Closest server is a good rule of thumb. However testing each country for yourself and seeing which gives the best performance is probably the best idea, as your ISP can route differently for different countries.

Title: Re: How do you decide which country to use?
Post by: Reuben on August 17, 2012, 10:56:20 AM

Also you may wish to examine the privacy laws of each of these  countries etc :D

Title: Re: How do you decide which country to use?
Post by: Snowden on August 17, 2012, 06:23:48 PM

Quote from: Reuben on August 17, 2012, 10:56:20 AM

Also you may wish to examine the privacy laws of each of these  countries etc :D

That's a very good point. Do you have any resources where you can find the laws of oh, the most FAQ that are current?

Title: Re: How do you decide which country to use?
Post by: Reuben on August 18, 2012, 10:13:59 AM

Can start with the EFF

https://www.eff.org/issues/mandatory-data-retention

Title: Re: How do you decide which country to use?
Post by: Gnikf on August 18, 2012, 05:29:30 PM

MM, you don't keep logs on any of the servers, right?
So how that matters?

I suppose from the 4 countries you have, Luxemburg and Swiss are most liberal?

Title: Re: How do you decide which country to use?
Post by: Reuben on August 19, 2012, 11:30:18 AM

We don't keep logs on the servers. But in some cases, not keeping logs may be in breach of these laws. I'll leave you to draw the inferences as to why we separate surfing/streaming servers out :D

Title: Re: How do you decide which country to use?
Post by: Gnikf on August 21, 2012, 10:03:42 PM

That sound like you keep logs on the US and UK servers?

Title: Re: How do you decide which country to use?
Post by: Reuben on August 22, 2012, 09:26:51 AM

Lol no we don't. US doesn't have a data retention policy surprisingly.

UK has a voluntary data retention policy via a code of practice.

So far it is our opinion that we think this means there is no mandatory data retention policies in place.

Title: Re: How do you decide which country to use?
Post by: shadowdrifter on August 24, 2012, 11:02:38 AM

I always choose the country with the best internet privacy laws. I hope to see routes for the Netherlands, and Sweden soon!

Title: Re: How do you decide which country to use?
Post by: Reuben on August 24, 2012, 11:14:46 AM

We already have one for Sweden

Title: Re: How do you decide which country to use?
Post by: youraverageguy on September 06, 2012, 10:22:04 PM

Hello, just one question; what happens when you get a copyright infrigment notice from
right holder's spying companies ? Not logs ok but how do you react then since i'm
sure it already happened before ?
Could you perhaps tell us if there are some contries where this never happens (in
order to make the right choice when we connect) ?
Thanks.

Title: Re: How do you decide which country to use?
Post by: Reuben on September 07, 2012, 02:18:18 PM

Most of the time we find providers that do not enforce this.

Luxembourg seldom forwards this to us.