Show HN: Find Mullvad VPN servers with the lowest latency

[Ch00k]

When traveling, in case my destination country does not have a Mullvad server, I often need to figure out which of the servers in surrounding locations have the lowest latency. This usually involves searching for servers around me, and then a lot of pinging, which, having done it twice, I decided to automate.

[qwertyuiop_]

Windscribe provides a way to sort the servers by latency. I hope Mullvad is reading this post. If you are, it’s a very useful feature.

[username923409]

The IVPN client also has this feature, which is another selling point for customers of Mullvad looking for a provider which still supports port forwarding.

[0x_rs]

>looking for a provider which still supports port forwarding.

They're phasing it out too, not available to new customers and out by September.

https://www.ivpn.net/blog/gradual-removal-of-port-forwarding...

[username923409]

Oh, that's too bad. I tried them out around a month ago, but decided to stick with Mullvad. Thanks for the correction.

[siraben]

Adding it to Nixpkgs.[0]

[0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/242662

[pedrovhb]

Very handy, thank you!

[stainablesteel]

using this while traveling is a great idea, thanks for this