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Staff: Following up on your explanation comment, I’ve done some speed checking using servers from different locations and my conclusion is that from my location in the SF Bay Area the two new Los Angeles servers are about 50% slower than the remaining Fremont server (Aquila). With Aquila I get about 180 to 190 Mbps down; with Teegarden and Groombridge it’s about 90 to 95 Mbps down. With no VPN I test at 209 Mpbs down and 6 Mbps up. I used Ookla’s speedtest.net for this. If you can suggest a better test site I’ll use it. My practice has been to use servers from my three closest locations: Fremont, Los Angeles and Phoenix. The Phoenix location, with five servers, has tended to be the slowest; I only use them when Heze is down AND to connect to one of my daily go-to sites--Macintouch.com--which blocks Persei and Aquila. (Oddly, yesterday and today the Phoenix servers have been blazingly fast, giving me test speeds equal to Aquila (around 190 Mbps down. I don’t know what to make of that; I’m assuming it’s an anomaly.) My internet provider is Comcast, and because I suspect it throttles torrent connections I generally use the TCP 443 protocol. However, for the speed tests I just did I used the faster UDP 443 protocol. (One thing that puzzles me is the in all VPN test cases my upload speed was only about 2 mbps.) You said the new Los Angeles servers are “quite near in terms of network distance and very near geographically.” I can’t comment on network distance, but I will say while LA and SF/Fremont may APPEAR to be close on a small scale map, in reality they are about 350 miles apart, as the crow flies. That’s a significant distance, even for California (similar to the distance between Rome and Marseilles, France). I’m not trying to be argumentative but I feel AirVPN has degraded the service of all of your Bay Area subscribers by moving the two Fremont (i.e., Silicon Valley) servers to southern California. I hope you’ll reconsider.

I had the best latency for Fremont, it's pretty sad that Persei and Heze are gone, my favorites Maybe the staff will reconsider to add at least 1 server in Fremont to support Aquila? Pretty much all the Fremont users party migrated to Aquila now, will be rough

It is not Black Friday. As it is normally a United States holiday, it gets celebrated after Thanksgiving, which occurs next week this time of year. Due to the timing and Cyber Monday not falling in November as well, that hasn't stopped many retailers from doing an "unofficial" Black Friday. Sucks I missed out on the Halloween sale. The computer I have Airvpn installed doesn't have a monitor so I didn't even see the client advertisement

Hello all, thanks for the suggestions, I appreciate them very much. I wanted to provide an update and ask a further question. First, the issue was not related to the settings or the certs/keys, it was that the OpenVPN Server was attempting to push IPv6 routes to my client, even though I do not have IPv6 enabled. This was not specific to my own issue from the original post, it was rather a new general server-side behavior started within the recent past (I suspect related to a OpenVPN version upgrade on AirDNS). And was also causing my "normal" method of connection to fail (specific server's IPv4 address in settings) -- nothing at all was working. I didn't notice that when I posted this question. Once I figured that out, I opened a Support Request with AirVPN and they quickly identified and resolved the issue on their side -- kudos to them! For anyone else that comes across this thread and wonders if if I ever got it working, I also want to report that I did. In the end all I needed to do was simply enter CA.vpn.airdns.org:443 in the "Server Address / Port" field in the Tomato OpenVPN Client settings, instead of a specific server's IP address. Everything else stayed exactly the same as I had previously set it in the "Using AirVPN With Tomato" topic in the How-To section on these forums. And it just worked. Now, for my question. In one of the posts above the staff mention 10.4.0.1 should be a secondary DNS address & to set the primary to match server gateway. In the "Using VPN With Tomato" How-To tutorial it lists this differently, to set 10.4.0.1 as primary DNS and set something else (I used an OpenNIC DNS) as Secondary DNS. My version of tomato does not have provisions available in the GUI for 3rd DNS, so I only use those two. This works with the above. But should I change the order and/or do something different -- and if so why?

You are asking whether you should change from AirVPN to PIA in AirVPN's forums? Did you expect a differentiated comparison? Look around you. We're all biased here.

A notice about saving money is fine in an email. Having a popup on my computer telling me to "save money now!" is not the appropriate way to convey this information. Maybe it would have been in 1998, but its 2019 and popup ads are frowned upon by most people. There is a reason every modern web browser blocks pop up ads by default. Its an annoying and disrespectful way to get someones attention. We are paying customers and you already have our email addresses, just send us an email. That's how every other business communicates with their customers. I'm very happy with my AirVPN service, but I feel this type of notification should be handled differently.

thanks for the deal but i don't appreciate The client notice that popup. maybe a setting to disable that would be nice, or is that the the System Notifications check-mark?

I appreciate the deal but the popup notification in eddie is really obnoxious. It shows up on every device whenever I launch eddie and made me think I had adware installed for a second. Its really not a good look. Maybe just send an email when there are sales and give us an option to opt out of them in our account settings, like so many other services do.