Server in Portugal

[ZarkBit 0]

TLDR: Reinforcing the request for a server in Portugal

Good afternoon everyone, first of all a huge thanks to the Team behind AirVPN for the awesome work you have been doing, I never had the need for a VPN and choosing one was quite the task, and after some research, your history made the choice easy for me. I've only been using your services for 9 days, but so far no complains.

I've recently changed ISP and found out that they use CGNat, and since CGNat is the Achilles heel of P2P, this made me dig deep into the subject, I've known the topic regarding "shared IPs" since the mid 2000's but never had the curiosity to learn about it, simply because I wasn't affected by it and neither were most Portuguese, well... Here I am now, and while researching the topic, mostly focused on my country, I've noticed that more and more Portuguese have been placed behind a CGNat (and getting frustrated by it, if I may add). The 3 main ISPs we have (MEO, NOS and Vodafone) have been moving towards CGNat implementation on a heavy scale in recent years, fortunately they've also been working on IPv6 implementation, but IPv4 is still king...

I know there was a server in Portugal (Tureis), and it was shut down due to its provider closing doors, also it made no sense to have such a cost on something that was rarely used, the majority of P2P'ers in Portugal had no need for a VPN, but the tide is changing, at least it changed for me.

I know that you do your research and debate on where to open servers, and providers have to tick all the boxes for privacy and security reasons, and of course, the investment has to make sense, but I hope that in the future we have the possibility to use a server located in Portugal.

As for now, I'll be using the servers of my Spanish brothers.

Best regards to the AirVPN Team.

[OpenSourcerer 1450]

3 hours ago, ZarkBit said:

The 3 main ISPs we have (MEO, NOS and Vodafone) have been moving towards CGNat implementation on a heavy scale in recent years, fortunately they've also been working on IPv6 implementation, but IPv4 is still king...

That's gotta be a total nightmare. Migrating from IPv4 while still not having native IPv6. Wonderful idea.

[ZarkBit 0]

4 minutes ago, OpenSourcerer said:

That's gotta be a total nightmare. Migrating from IPv4 while still not having native IPv6. Wonderful idea.

Oh, I should have worded that in a better way, all 3 have IPv6 implementation ready but there are some issues that need to be ironed out, the rollout has been at a slow pace and from what I've gathered, a bit messy, with some people not being able to get an IPv6 because the ISP router does not support dual-stack, and requesting a router change sometimes means an additional 24 months loyalty period, which we have grown to hate. Using our own router can be finicky if the router doesn't have the ISP authentication configuration embedded. IPv6 not being available in some areas because the infrastructure wasn't updated. Some people having to disable IPv6 in order to have a stable connection. etc.

It's getting there, slowly, but at least they are working on getting things to work properly.

Ofc, CGNat being a thing, just gives them no reason to speed things up... But oh well.