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Do any readers know whether it is would be normal for VPN providers to liaise with the biggest blocklists? (I would imagine it would be a lot of manual work, so I could understand why Air would not want to take it on). Hello! We confirm that we actively keep "our" IP addresses out of major blacklists, including the sector leader Spamhaus. Most address providers mandate that this is done as they want to keep their addresses "clean". Unfortunately there are thousands of black lists so it is not possible to know and intervene on all of them. About the IP address you mention, you can see here that it's "clean" on almost 100% of the minor black lists and on 100% of the major ones. https://check.spamhaus.org/results/?query=213.152.187.235 https://whatismyipaddress.com/blacklist-check https://dnschecker.org/ip-blacklist-checker.php?query=213.152.187.235 https://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=blacklist%3a213.152.187.235&run=toolpage Also, please be aware that some minor lists that you see above include an IP address simply because it is shared, regardless of anything else. Kind regards

We have kept the OP message to show the pervasiveness of the PRC's propaganda lackeys. We consider Taiwan (Republic of China) to be independent and autonomous from the PRC (People's Republic of China), as it is in fact. ipleak uses MaxMind and IANA databases to display results, and we are pleased that these are aligned with an anti-imperialist and democratic vision that is clearly unpalatable to the dictatorial regime of the PRC, which sees it as an obstacle to its expansionist ambitions.

I love the fact that existing customers always get to take advantage of the same offers new users get, thank you!

Hello! We're very glad to inform you that Eddie Android edition 3.3.0 Release Candidate 1 is now available. Link on the announcement first post has been updated accordingly. Thank you very much if you decide to test this new version and report any problem and bug you experience! New in Release Candidate 1: all the beta 2 reported by testers problems have been addressed ability to auto connect when the app is launched. Opt in: please note the new Start quick VPN connection at application startup option in Settings > AirVPN. It requires an account that logged in with "Remember me" checked ability to start and connect during the device bootstrap on all supported Android TV and Android versions, with or without "Always on VPN" further ergonomic improvements on Android TV revamped ability to start and connect during the device bootstrap finalized full code compliance with SDK 16 new, improved NetworkMonitor bug fixes Kind regards

As far as I am concerned, the internet doesn't know nationalities. Also, my location might be Germany, but I'm not exactly German. But thank you for pigeonholing, anyway. Learned another thing today, thank you

We can of course think in black and white, like there are absolutely zero black sheep among VPN users. Ain't that a nice lullaby to fall asleep to? If anything, the services offered on the internet react to the crap coming from VPN users, because, yes, those people use it as a tool for, well, at least pseudonymity. Now, the question is, why would they do that instead of going via their normal internet connection? Privacy? Yeah, maybe. Geoblock circumvention so they can watch home TV when they're abroad? Sure. But the overwhelming majority obviously wants to do something they themselves don't want to be held liable for. I was a good example for this. Most times its torrenting of copyrighted material, that is, not paying for something other people create, but that won't trigger those automated defense systems. Some also abuse the servers for hacking-related things. Especially the latter people, even if they are a minority, are network-wise excessively loud. This shows in the automated defense systems being triggered for everyone, and that is why you post here with a bit of a rant, because it bothers your experience, obviously. Don't point your finger at the defense systems – point them at all those people who think once they paid for a product they share with others they can do what they want and so sully its reputation. It's so egoistical it's almost human. And it happened before. Okay, so someone contacts the admin team, works with them to remove some server from their blacklist. Job done, right? Problem is, three days later it's on a blacklist again. Do you know why? Because those people from before smell this, and use the unblocked server for their scripting relentlessly. The less walls to overcome there is, the easier the job, the more fun it is. They come back, even recommend the service as one that actively tries to tear down those walls, and they all think it's for the sake of their attacks. The service gets even more abused. Do not contact admins to ask for unblocks, it backfires in the most wondrous ways down the line. And yes, it's very likely a WAF. It's not that the internet is getting more dangerous for users, as the sentiment tends to be around these forums – the users get more dangerous for the hosters, and the hosters react. You really think those walls would be erected without reason? Necessity begets creation. They're not doing this to be a nuisance for VPN users. Service providers like Cloudflare sit in a comfortable position where they can analyze the traffic behavior from many parts of the internet and spot similarities. So I tend to agree with this statement.

Hello, I would like some information regarding the possibility of AirVPN collecting IP addresses. AirVPN does not collect IP addresses by default, but would it be possible to set up a protocol dedicated to analyzing the behavior of a single user in particular following a judicial request? ProtonVPN makes it very clear how this logging works “upon judicial request”: https://protonvpn.com/blog/can-be-tracked-using-vpn#police Switzerland is a jurisdiction I'm familiar with, which doesn't allow a VPN provider to start recording logs about users. Is it the same in Italy? Can AirVPN staff comment on the legal requests they receive, and if they are forced to start a specific logging on a user at the request of justice? Does Italian law prevent this, or has it happened in the past? I'm an AirVPN user and I support the project being an activist too. These are just legitimate questions that I hope will be addressed by the staff. @Staff Good day to all

Eddie is built on Mono, so Mono libraries are necessary. Now the question is whether you looked at Eddie Portable or the installed one, because only the portable one ships those .so files itself. The installed one uses the system ones provided by differently named packages. That "suspicious" libmonoposixhelper.so is in mono-runtime-common in Ubuntu, for example. For the links you posted, snapcraft.io is the homepage for Canonical's container format, Snap, and Cairo is a rendering API. That excessively long domain exceeds the maximum domain name length, some of the domains are nonexistent, and data.rel.ro is not a domain but probably references Relocation Read-Only, or relro for short, a security thing used in linkers like GNU ld, falsely labeled a domain, as there is a section in the binary file created by it called .data.rel.ro. In my eyes, if you downloaded Ubuntu from ubuntu.com, you get your package updates from archive.ubuntu.com and you downloaded Eddie from eddie.website, there is zero chance you're dealing with some intrusion or other. More likely, that Hybrid Analysis toolkit is massively spooking you…

I did everything you suggested and it finally works, thank you. However I have another problem, the speed is very unsatisfactory, it's around 2 MB/s whatever MTU number or server I set. The exact same torrent goes absolutely haywire with speed on the very same PC, just without VPN. I tested multiple torrents and it's the same for all of them, Ubuntu distro achieves highest speed with 8 - 18 MB/s while without VPN it goes 90 MB/s (I have 1 Gbps fiber). Any tips for that? I tried again many things, changing MTU, changing servers (Netherlands, then servers closest to me, then servers with highest bandwidth according to Client area here). Thank you very much for your help and responses.

No real issues after a couple months of use. Everything works as intended and the system, while having a more classic feel, still manages to offer everything I've asked for. I switched from Windows to Ubuntu halfway through, and I found the functionality very similar. A few things worked more easily (port forwarding) on Ubuntu, and a few were more difficult (auto-startup after reboot). Overall very satisfied.

Thank you, I am sorry if it looks like I am blaming AirVPN, that was not my intention and you are completely right, I turned server off for the weekend and went hiking.. Let's see what I can do with clear head and thank you for tips and posting your stack.

I do understand that technical problems are incredibly frustrating. I feel your pain, and I try to help others get past this hurdle. I'm going to ask you to just trust the next couple points: Judging from the emotion in your post, you need a break. Just walk away from this project for 24-48 hours and give your mind and body a rest. Do something that you enjoy. When you come back to these problems with a fresh and rested mind you will be able to try again and succeed. A fresh brain is an AMAZING thing. Know that AirVPN is not the cause of these issues; you are in the right place. You are posting among torrenting LEGENDS who could use any VPN they desire, and they chose to be here. Trust that there is a good reason for that and that you made a great decision to be here. Assuming that you are now well rested, please start again by looking at my stack. This stack configuration has literally torrented hundreds of terabytes; it works! Then, check your AirVPN profile to ensure you set everything up properly and did not rush over or skip a step: When you go to the devices screen have you set up a device? In the ports screen is that device linked to the port (in the dropdown)? When making your config file did you select that device? When working correctly, the sessions screen should list your device at the top of the card when connected; does it? If you accomplish all these things and still have an issue, post again with the current status of things and I'll take another look.

Been using AirVPN for over a year now, without any real problems. If there has been anything that I've encountered, it has been because I've skipped the documentation. I need more content so I can change my username :)

Your mentioning of the buffers led down a rabbit hole. So buffer adjustment let to a slight increase in performance (like 5mb/s). The real culprit for me was faulty hardware, the overaged SSD had super slow read/write speeds, which then caused the slow down. I guess the kernel doesn't like waiting for reads and writes while having huge amounts of packets coming in. Replacing the SSD fixed it.

Not certain what exactly you are doing. But if the VPN client is running on the SSH/Linux server, then this might help: https://github.com/tool-maker/VPN_just_for_torrents/wiki/Maintaining-SSH-Access-Using-a-VPN-on-a-Remote-Linux-Server

Correlation != causation, as always. Of course not. Can AirVPN do something about the users abusing the services? People don't behave, especially behind a VPN, so everyone suffers for it. Simple as that.

I managed to increase the speed by increasing the TCP buffers and reducing the MTU. (in DEBIAN) For the MTU: (in docker run or docker compose) environment: - WIREGUARD_MTU=1320 or - VPN_MTU=1320 For TCP buffers: (not in container, in the host vm) sudo sysctl -w net.core.rmem_max=25000000 sudo sysctl -w net.core.wmem_max=25000000 sudo sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_rmem=“4096 87380 16777216” sudo sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_wmem=“4096 65536 16777216” For permanant buffers after reboot: - modify /etc/sysctl.conf - sudo sysctl -p I managed to increase the speed from 30 Mbps to 300 Mbps with this 2 modifications.

Hello! Yes, definitely. We will consider it seriously and keep you posted. Kind regards

The connections of both apps are independent, so yes, connect with Eddie, then connect to the Tor network using the browser to essentially have a Tor over VPN setup. For routing all apps via Tor using Orbot this setup is not possible. Orbot will be using Android's VPNService API itself, so it's either VPN or Tor. Root can open doors here but it also closes some, as always.

I've been using Airvpn together with deluge 1.3.15 running via docker for years without issue. Recently I noticed almost all my torrents are returning "Error: Connection timed out". I initially assumed I had too many torrents in my client, 2.5k total, so paused about half but it didn't make any difference. I've also experimented with the number of connections in the deluge settings but it hasn't made a difference. I've tried a few different servers, currently on AirVPN_BE-Brussels_Diadema Is anyone else seeing this behaviour?

Here is my working Open VPN config on a Netgear R7000 with Fresh Tomato:

Hello, I installed Siduction as a Linux distro, then Wireguard and Resolvconf... In the Linux terminal, after launching wg quick up, I get this response: sudo wg-quick up /home/nicolas/airvpn/europewg.conf Warning: `/home/nicolas/airvpn/europewg.conf' is world accessible [#] ip link add dev europewg type wireguard [#] wg setconf europewg /dev/fd/63 [#] ip -4 address add 10.163.170.96/32 dev europewg [#] ip -6 address add fd7d:76ee:e68f:a993:5e09:e107:ad2:4168/128 dev europewg [#] ip link set mtu 1320 up dev europewg [#] resolvconf -a tun.europewg -m 0 -x [#] wg set europewg fwmark 51820 [#] ip -6 rule add not fwmark 51820 table 51820 [#] ip -6 rule add table main suppress_prefixlength 0 [#] ip -6 route add ::/0 dev europewg table 51820 [#] nft -f /dev/fd/63 /dev/fd/63:5:110-123: Error: Could not process rule: No such file or directory [#] resolvconf -d tun.europewg -f [#] ip -6 rule delete table 51820 [#] ip -6 rule delete table main suppress_prefixlength 0 [#] ip link delete dev europewg Does anyone have a solution? Thank you very much.

Hello! We're very glad to inform you that Eddie Android edition 3.3.0 beta 2 is now available. Link on the announcement first post has been updated accordingly. Thank you very much if you decide to test this new version and report any problem and bug you experience! New in beta 2: all the beta 1 reported by testers problems have been addressed replaced code with lambda expressions in all classes and where applicable additional bug fixes linked against the latest OpenVPN3-AirVPN library (20250911) all deprecated by Google classes replaced Kind regards

Hello! VPNs are not in the scope of both the legislation and trivial tech considerations, as we don't have the keys for the communications: chat, instant messages and e-mails are encrypted end-to-end without our keys, but with the keys of the parties and/or the keys of the service offering e-mail / chat / messaging service, so we can't decrypt anything in any case. With that said, this abomination must be fought. We repute it is incompatible with the Charter of Fundamental Rights and with various CJEU decisions on data retention and privacy. We feel to share the position and the consideration offered by Tuta and EDRi here and here: https://tuta.com/blog/chat-control-criticism https://edri.org/our-work/most-criticised-eu-law-of-all-time/ Unfortunately, opposition has become more difficult because big AI actors see chat control as a great opportunity and they have spent tens of millions to lobby in favor of this abominable regulation. This is the main explanation that tells you why various politicians have changed their positions. Kind regards

Hello! We're very glad to inform you a new 10 Gbit/s full duplex server located in Bucharest, Romania, is available: Nembus. The AirVPN client will show automatically the new server; if you use any other OpenVPN or WireGuard client you can generate all the files to access them through our configuration/certificates/key generator. The server accepts connections on ports 53, 80, 443, 1194, 2018 UDP and TCP for OpenVPN and ports 1637, 47107 and 51820 UDP for WireGuard. It supports OpenVPN over SSL and OpenVPN over SSH, TLS 1.3, OpenVPN tls-crypt and WireGuard. Full IPv6 support is included as well. As usual no traffic limits, no logs, no discrimination on protocols and hardened security against various attacks with separate entry and exit-IP addresses. You can check the status as usual in our real time servers monitor : https://airvpn.org/servers/Nembus  Do not hesitate to contact us for any information or issue. Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Staff

I never had any issues with Mullvad. The only reason I left was because they got rid of port forwarding. AirVPN has been great so far as a replacement.

Hey there, Taiwan is a provincial administrative region of China, an inalienable part of China’s territory. But when I checked my IP on ipleak.net, I saw Taiwan was shown with those outdated flags, which is totally wrong. These flags don’t reflect the fact that Taiwan belongs to China. Using them misrepresents Taiwan’s status and goes against the One - China principle. It’s really important to fix this mistake. Please correct the display and stop using such wrong flags. Let’s make sure the info about Taiwan is right, in line with the One - China principle. Thanks for handling this!

Hopefully, AirVPN will look into adding another server or getting a 10GB server as New Zealand has quite fast bandwidth speeds for the region so if the servers are as busy as they are people's bandwidth will be highly restricted. Also, since Australia is introducing more draconian laws, there will probably be more demand in the near future.

@PANDABOY Hello! Thank you very much! After your guide has been tested, we are going to split your message in the "How To" forum and make it a guide for Plex remote access via Proxmox on AirVPN. Kind regards

I am also interested in this, but I didn't get it working. Could you please provide more details on how to set it up? A few snippets for the Powershell would be very helpful. Allowing DHCP traffic out, seems to be an default rule with Windows 10. Hello! Something like this will do the trick, starting from a clean status and Windows Firewall enabled. Make sure you operate from a Powershell with administrator privileges. The rules will survive at reboot. You must adjust your local network address/netmask (change 192.168.0.0/16 and fe80::/10 if necessary). Do not proceed if you don't understand exactly every single command; instead, get documented first. netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="Allow DHCPv4" protocol=UDP dir=out localport=67,68 action=allow netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="Allow DHCPv6" protocol=UDP dir=out localport=546,547 action=allow netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="Allow Local IPv4 Network" protocol=TCP dir=out remoteip=192.168.0.0/16 action=allow netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="Allow Local IPv6 Network" protocol=TCP dir=out remoteip=fe80::/10 action=allow netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="Allow Localhost Outbound" dir=out action=allow remoteip=127.0.0.1 netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="Block All Other Outbound Traffic" dir=out action=block protocol=any You may also consider to backup the rules and enable them only when needed, instead of keeping them permanent. Check your system manual to do this. Kind regard

There lies a "danger" in only using Secure Boot without creating the types of rules I explain in the thread. Secure Boot is set on shutdown, so if the PC crashes for example, the next boot will be with your regular filtering profile. But that doesn't matter if the firewall rules are set to block all but AirVPN IPs.

Well, most probably not. AirVPN's measure was to simply cease providing service to Italy to render themselves out of scope of Piracy Shield. All the server locations are subject to the laws of those server locations.If you're not in Italy, you're anyway free from any of the worries you stated. Italian authorities asking for info on someone who is not in Italy, or simply connected to a server not in Italy, is just plain impossible on so many levels. They can try, of course, but it'll probably never pass. Also, torrenting as the #1 reason around here to connect to the VPN might be a crime, too, but it's not terrorism justifying hunting people to the end of the world. Clearly define what you want to be protected against and ask the forums for measures you can take; there'll be tons of recommendations. But curb your paranoia, it is not productive. The prevalent recommendation even across these forums is not to use the VPN alone. Always combine with Tor if you need the safety, and harden whatever apps you want to use over it, most importantly the browser. Mass tracking is done by automated tracking measures such as browser fingerprinting against which a VPN won't help you. This tracking is done to generate money out of you, not for surveillance or some such, anyway.

Nice job! So now you are into your own network and the server/service is handing out the unauthorized status based on a local ACL. You are on your way! Happy hunting!

Sounds like you are making great progress, congrats! It sounds to me like everything is working as it should now, so we need to either: reset your expectations and correct your assumptions, or have you communicate why you think something should work a certain way or what your goals are. Putting your first and third posts together, it sounds like you expect to see the WebGUI on multiple ports. Can you explain why you would want that? I'm not going to say you couldn't engineer that, but I'm going to challenge your thinking here. Let's assume your machine has a local network static IP of 10.77.77.42; you access the WebGUI with http://10.77.77.42:8082 right? Why do you need additional access on port 27586? Are you trying to admin qBittorrent from outside your network? You haven't stated that before which is why I ask. Many users are uncomfortable exposing their WebGUI to the world, so you need to be clear that this is your desire (and secure it with https before doing so!). How many ports do you have forwarded from AirVPN? Are ports 8082 and 27586 in pool #2 (saving pool #1 ports for P2P users is the goal here)? Your line "FIREWALL_VPN_INPUT_PORTS=8082,27586,27587" isn't going to work unless all three of those ports are forwarded from AirVPN. I believe the most common use case is to only forward the torrenting port from pool #1 (27587) keeping the WebGUI port just for local network use. Lets check your devices to ensure they are not an issue. When you go to the devices screen have you set up a device? Then in the ports screen is that device linked to the port (in the dropdown)? And when making your config file did you select that device? When working correctly, the sessions screen should list your device at the top of the card when connected.

It would probably be faster for everyone to simply show you my stack: # This is a P2P demonstration stack template which has been tested to work well with AirVPN as of January 2025. # Use AirVPN's config generator to obtain your specific values (https://airvpn.org/generator). Make sure to specify your device. # Remember that the indentation of a Docker Compose file is important. services: gluetun: image: qmcgaw/gluetun:latest container_name: gluetun cap_add: - NET_ADMIN devices: - /dev/net/tun:/dev/net/tun environment: - VPN_SERVICE_PROVIDER=airvpn - VPN_TYPE=wireguard - WIREGUARD_PUBLIC_KEY= # copy from config file - WIREGUARD_PRIVATE_KEY= # copy from config file - WIREGUARD_PRESHARED_KEY= # copy from config file - WIREGUARD_ADDRESSES= # copy from config file - SERVER_REGIONS= # optional, comma seperated list, no spaces after commas, make sure it matches the config you created - SERVER_COUNTRIES= # optional, comma seperated list, no spaces after commas, make sure it matches the config you created - SERVER_CITIES= # optional, comma seperated list, no spaces after commas, make sure it matches the config you created - FIREWALL_VPN_INPUT_PORTS= # mandatory, the port number AirVPN forwarded for you (from pool #1) should appear here - TZ= # choose timezone value from list at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones (e.g.: Asia/Tokyo) ports: - 8080:8080 # qbittorrent web GUI, port number can be changed BUT it must match WEBUI_PORT in qbittorrent service environment - (port forwarded from AirVPN):(port forwarded from AirVPN) # also place in TORRENTING_PORT field in qbittorrent service environment restart: unless-stopped qbittorrent: image: lscr.io/linuxserver/qbittorrent:latest container_name: qbittorrent depends_on: gluetun: condition: service_healthy restart: true environment: - PUID= # your desired user's number - PGID= # your desired user's group number - TZ= # choose timezone value from list at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones - WEBUI_PORT=8080 # must match "qbittorrent web GUI" port number in gluetun's service above - TORRENTING_PORT=(port forwarded from AirVPN) # must match forwarded port number in gluetun's service above volumes: - /mnt/(your folder structure here):/config # directory you want to save your qbittorrent config files - /mnt/(your folder structure here):/downloads # qbittorrent download location restart: unless-stopped network_mode: "service:gluetun" # this is what forces qbittorrent to only use the VPN connection from gluetun Hope this helps!

Some differences between yours and mine are: I also use Wireguard and I have "- WIREGUARD_PUBLIC_KEY=[redacted]" and you don't; I don't have any volumes set up, everything in the docker compose; You aren't specifying the latest image, consider using "qmcgaw/gluetun:latest"; I do not use CIDR notation for the "WIREGUARD_ADDRESSES" and you do, consider trying it without the "/32"; Are you sure your forwarded port is in AirVPN's pool #1? For P2P it has to be. For qBittorrent: again use the latest: "lscr.io/linuxserver/qbittorrent:latest" consider adding the following for robustness: "depends_on: gluetun: condition: service_healthy restart: true" You don't have "TORRENTING_PORT=[your pool #1 port number]"; Its usually best to have these in the same stack, not separate containers. Keep trying, it DOES work.

Hi, yeah no worries since I am only going to use one connection I can still use this port or I will just request another port for a different device? Anyhow this is the fixed config... I was stupid reading forum entries on how to set it up when it was all correctly stated in the readme.... : version: "3" services: gluetun: image: qmcgaw/gluetun cap_add: - NET_ADMIN networks: mvl-200: ipv4_address: 10.60.1.5 ports: - 41870:41870 - 41870:41870/udp - 80:80 environment: - VPN_SERVICE_PROVIDER=airvpn - VPN_TYPE=wireguard - WIREGUARD_PRIVATE_KEY=xxxxxxxxxxxx - WIREGUARD_PRESHARED_KEY=xxxxxxxxxxxx - WIREGUARD_ADDRESSES=xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - SERVER_COUNTRIES=Netherlands - FIREWALL_VPN_INPUT_PORTS=xxxxxxxxxxxx volumes: - /media/glueton:/gluetun maybe somebody as dumb as me googles this and it helps^^

No, the graphics card didn't limit internet speed. I just inadvertently found the solution to that while trying to find out why my graphics card wasn't using its full resources while gaming. In the graphics card help post ( link above) I found the passage on "Windows Power Management Setting for PCI Express" was what had slowed not just my graphics card but my whole PC down. My CPU very rarely ran at its full 3750MHZ but mostly between 1200-2200MHZ. When I switched the "Link State Power Management" off as shown above suddenly my PC is much faster overall including my internet and broadband connection and my VPN connection goes from 250Mbps to near 600Mbps D/L compared to a regular 800+Mbps D/L without using aVPN.

For a few months now my PC has seemed slower in all aspects. I had put it down to it being an 8 years old desktop still running Windows 10. Also my 1G broadband connection although giving 850Mbps when not using AirVPN reduced to between 250-320Mbps when connected to AirVPN. Last Thursday I happened on this thread https://graphicscardhub.com/low-gpu-usage/ while researching why my graphics card an NVIDIA GeForce GTX1080 had stopped using its max power when using Handbrake and also my game of Elite Dangerous had started stuttering in certain situations. I found the cause and the solution for me in the section in Quotes below. On following the instructions I found my graphics card started working properly again and as an added bonus when I next started AirVPN I found that my download speed had now jumped up to 550-660Mbps and this has remained steady since. At 74 I am not as PC savvy as many so perhaps this can be another cause of slow speeds and wrongly blaming Virgin for bottlenecking etc. As my graphics card worked fine previously I am pretty sure that one of the Windows Updates in the last year or so must have caused this slowdown, likely another example of Microsoft meddling. Anyway hope this helps someone else having slowdowns.

Hello! Please check your setup against the following guide: https://airvpn.org/faq/p2p/ On top of that, we have noticed a malfunction in some qBittorrent version (for example 4.5.5) in FreeBSD and Linux related to binding. If you set Tools > Preferences > Advanced > Optional IP addresses to bind to into All addresses, qBittorrent will reply only to IPv6 packets. If that's your case too, set that combo box to All IPv4 addresses. For additional safety you can also set the Network interface combo box (available in the same advanced menu) to your VPN interface. Always run qBittorrent only after a VPN connection has been successfully established. Kind regards

Sorry for the late reply. Yes, I did find a solution. Have a look at the discussions starting from here, between user NaDre and me: It's quite long and a bit "stream of consciousness-y" but in the end it led me to a working solution where I can use the VPN for torrent clients (those supporting the binding to a specific interface, that is) and Firefox (using a proxy server I installed, as discussed in that thread).

Okay, it's in Wireguard itself. Many thanks! I had selected the <ca> and i need the <cert> after changing everything works! I had to look in the logs to see if Gluetun uses TCP, and it does. A test-torrent go's very slow, when i test another Linux test-torrent it go's with almost the max of my downloadspeed.

Excellent to see AirVPN give a detailed rationale for the inquiry. Bravo.

Wow, a guide! Thank you very much for the work you put into it. I'll probably test it out one of these days. This is false. It is available and working as intended on Linux. This is true, though. But in all fairness, most directives in OpenVPN refer to v4 only. One thing came to mind when I read this:

AIRVPN DOES NOT RECOGNIZE ANYMORE VERISIGN, AFILIAS AND ICANN AUTHORITY. OUR COMMITMENT AGAINST UNITED STATES OF AMERICA UNFAIR AND ILLEGAL DOMAIN NAMES SEIZURES. The United States of America authorities have been performing domain names seizures since the end of 2010. The seizures have been performed against perfectly legal web-sites and/or against web-sites outside US jurisdiction. Administrators of some of those web-sites had been previously acquitted of any charge by courts in the European Union. The domain name seizures affect the world wide web in its entirety since they are performed bypassing the original registrar and forcing VeriSign and Afilias (american companies which administer TLDs like .org, .net, .info and .com) to transfer the domain name to USA authorities property. No proper judicial overview is guaranteed during the seizure. Given all of the above, we repute that these acts: - are a violation of EU citizens fundamental rights, as enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights; - are an attack against the Internet infrastructure and the cyberspace; - are a strong hint which shows that decision capacities of USA Department of Justice and ICE are severely impaired; and therefore from now on AirVPN does not recognize VeriSign, Afilias and/or ICANN authority over domain names. AirVPN refuses to resolve "seized" domain names to the IP address designated by USA authorities, allowing normal access to the original servers' websites / legitimate Ip addresses. In order to fulfil the objective, we have put in place an experimental service which is already working fine. If you find anomalies, please let us know, the system will surely improve in time. Kind regards AirVPN admins

Thank you, Thank you ! That was exactly what I was hoping for and it went perfectly ! Three More Years !! Keep up the great work

The same thing. Over and over. Talk about boring. -Invictus-

This is the same exact behavior that got you banned from PIA's forum. It wasn't that you called them out for their duplicity. I've done the same thing multiple time and have yet to be banned for it. In fact I was calling them out in the very same thread you're referring to here. No, you were banned for posting walls and walls of redundant bloviating text (we're seeing that again now here too) attempting to convince a disinterested audience by the massive volume of words hurled at them in thread after thread after thread. While as you know I fully agree that PIA has some very serious and long standing problems (anyone who's followed my comments in their forums knows where I stand with them), why would you go airing your personal effronteries with PIA here? And now you attack me here by name too, as thought there were some sort of alliance between me and PIA mods? You're just polluting a relatively pristine forum and ensnaring the members here in the morass of your goo when no one here could care less about your personal beef with PIA. Please stop this.