For a vpn user, it's very important to know he can trust the vpn provider concerning location of the vpn servers. In order eg to know which laws of which country are applying to the server he is using.
Alas, some providers are dishonest about location of their servers. Particularly those claiming to have servers in Syria, Mongolia, Ethiopia, Ghana, North Korea etc. When connecting to these servers et verifying IP on site such as ipleak.net/com (relying on DB such as MaxMind to locate the IP), the user may lead to believe the server he is using really is in the country the vpn provider claims it is. But most of the time the bandwith is to good to be true, and this is a first element indicating there is some lie somewhere.
Notice that the provider may be tortuous enough to throttle bandwith from these servers, in order you get syrian speeds when connected to vpn servers claimed in Syria.
Conversely, an honest vpn provider may provide a server he claims to be located ind Bulgaria, while maxmind tools claims it is located in Germany.
One of thebest toolpossible tool I think to separate the true from the false is to ping the questionable server from multiple locations. If a syrian server get a very low ping from a ping testing machine in New York, it is certainly not located in Damas and very probably located near New York, and so submitted to US laws.
Fortunately, you have not to pay for multiple servers all around the world to do that: Site such as asm.ca.com can perform the pings for you.
The IP you want to test is pinged from Australia - Austria - Brazil - Canada - Belgium - Bulgaria - China - Costa Rica - Czech Republic - Denmark - Egypt - Finland - France - Germany - Greece - Hungary - India - Indonesia - Ireland - Israel - Italy - Japan - Lithuania - Malaysia - Mexico - Netherlands - Panama - Poland- Portugal - Russia - Saudi Arabia - Singapore - South Africa - South Korea - Spain - Sweden - Switzerland - Thailand - Turkey - UK - Ukraine - United Arab Emirate - US - VietNam.
If the country of the vpn server you want to test doesn't belong to the above list, you can preform "ping triangulation".
Feel free to give some other urls to ping a given IP from "all around the world".
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