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At the time of the data, Ookla speedtest.net had 193 servers in 68 countries. The locations of the servers are seen in the map to the  left. The most servers/country were US (54), Australia (7),  Russia(6), Brazil, Canada, Romania (5).  A map of the locations of the servers and the number of servers / country is seen in the middle left below . Shown in the middle right is the number of servers/country for countries that had clients. Clients in countries without servers (red in the middle right map) will need to cross international boundaries from the server and so are likely to have poorer performance than clients with servers in their country. About 39% of the countries with clients also have one or more servers. The bar chart to the right shows the download speed per country together with trhe number of servers per country.

Below On the right is a histogram (with logarithmic bin widths) of the Servers / 1000 clients for countries with servers. The leading countries with this metric are those with the smaller number of clients, e.g. Mali (6.8), Liechenstein(2.5), Maldives(1.5), Bahamas(0.95), Faroe Islands(0.77), Bermuda(0.49), Cyprus(0.33), Honduras(0.29), Qatar(0.26), Nicaragua(0.23).

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The data is also archived together with the location of the client. This is determined based on the client IP address. Speedtest.net uses GeoIP databases from MaxMind to position the client and by default locate the closest server since the transfer speed depends on the TCP window and TCP is not usually optimized for increased RTT. While the information in MaxMind's GeoIP databases is very accurate, it is not perfect. More information on Ookla's speed test can be found here.

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