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That's a great write up! Many thanks. It makes things clearer to me. The only "problem" I'm facing now is that my clients/users are now in BE. So for instance Google gives results for BE websites. Of course this is a layer 8 problem. 😉 But I will have to explain wife and kids how to use it.

On the internet we're all interconnected by fiber. If you let light carry your messages, it will travel with light speed obviously. The only problem are all the devices in between, routing and switching: They delay it, sometimes by quite a bit. In general, but only in general, the farther you and your destination are located, the more of these devices you might need to traverse. BUT, these devices are usually strong backbones who can handle a tremendous amount of data, so sometimes you might even have a better connection to a server a bit farther away, just like I experienced a few years ago in Germany connecting to Switzerland. These router interconnections are happening on the basis of agreements between organizations or other entities who are in control of certain Autonomous Systems, or AS. Between those AS, there are two kinds of agreements: Transmit and Peering. While you pay a usually better connected AS owner than yourself to forward your traffic, peering is done mutually with lower cost, i.e., both agree to forward the other's traffic - and they publically make it known. Hence, they are publically viewable, for example on HE's BGP toolkit. While this is not the Holy Grail (it certainly has it's weaknesses), it gives a much better idea of how well you are connected to certain servers. So when I started making sure the servers I connect to have a direct BGP route to the AS of AirVPN's servers, throughput problems were rarely seen, even if it meant to connect to Switzerland instead of Frankfurt (which is nearer to my physical location). Also what can happen with geographically closer servers is that an ISP in Germany for example might route traffic through a US east coast server because it's cheaper, less loaded or simply because the ISP doesn't "trust" the only big peering provider in Germany he has an agreement with (= ranks it down or so). The BGP toolkit can uncover this to some extent. Routing outside your ISP is quite a stage for politics.

it could be that the route is overloaded or your ISP has poor bandwidth to whatever intermediate network(s) is used.

It works! No issues since I configured it according to your suggestions. Thanks!

What about the issue "Your browser is avoiding IPv6."? If you use AirVPN servers with IPv6 support: http://test-ipv6.com: You should obtain a score 10/10. With a single warning: http://ipv6-test.com/: You should obtain a score 15/20. The penalty is caused by The reason of the issue is explained here by jd890123 (thank you!): https://airvpn.org/topic/25140-the-issue-your-browser-is-avoiding-ipv6/?do=findComment&comment=81694 A quick workaround is also suggested. The issue does not affect Android systems.

Hello! A simpler setup with the same anti-blocking effectiveness can be achieved with the following connection mode which does not require any additional SSL tunnel: - entry-IP address 3 - protocol TCP - port 443 In the Configuration Generator, please tick "Advanced Mode" to display all the available connection modes. If you run Eddie on a desktop computer, connection modes are available in "Preferences" > "Protocols" and they are selectable after you untick "Automatic". Kind regards

Got AirVPN running on my router, but Netflix won't load. I'm using AirVPN DNS servers too. I thought Netflix USA access should be possible from all AirVPN servers... Preferably I'd just be able to connect to the local Netflix through the VPN, but USA region is better than no Netflix at all Is this no longer possible?