Why doesn’t PIA use geo-located servers when using the “choose automatically” option in the server list? FYI: I am talking about using the desktop client on Windows to connect to PIA.
Sometimes when I use that option it shows that there are geo-located ones that are faster, but it still connects me to another non-geo-located one which is slower. Sometimes, not even in my own country. I wish that there was an option to use geo-located servers automatically if they are faster.
On a different note, I wish there was an option to always automatically connect to the fastest server in a selected country. So, if I am on YouTube or Amazon and such, that it doesn’t connect to another country and route me to their version of those sites (ex. sending me to YouTube.ca instead of YouTube.com).
I know there is an option to favorite (with the heart) a specific region by clicking the heart next to it in the server list, and then you can use the shortcut to connect to whatever is currently the fastest server, but that’s not what I mean. It doesn’t work like the “connect automatically” option in that, it only connects you to whatever is currently the fastest option in the selected region once, then it sticks with that server. It will not switch and automatically connect you to another server if that other server becomes faster than the one you are currently connected to, like “connect automatically” does. And again, the favorite shortcut also doesn’t use geo-located regions even if they are the fastest in that region.
After doing a search, I saw a similar post on the topic here, but that was from two years ago and there was still no solution. Is there a way to have PIA auto connect, but ONLY to a USA server?