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Update Eddie first, please. Current stable version is 2.18.9. Report back if it solved it or not. If not, connect, then in Logs tab click the lifebelt icon and paste or upload the output here. If you choose to paste it, consider using LOG formatting; it's the top left button in the post editor. Thank you.

not at all. what that's showing, and it's normal when using openvpn GUI on windows, is that when you use openvpn GUI instead of Eddie you have a DNS leak which is ruining some of the privacy you gain by using a VPN. you want just the one (or two with ipv6) airvpn servers showing up as DNS servers.

@giganerd Hi! With OpenVPN 2 we outperform the current data set we have about IPsec on equal terms, as we achieve 1.7 Gbit/s on a Xeon E3-1230 with 300 connected clients in UDP and AES-256-GCM in Data Channel. It must be said however that IPsec works in the kernel space, while OpenVPN in the user space, so IPsec has a significant advantage under this respect. If the data set we have refers to an L2TP/IPsec implementation, that boost might be lost because you need time to convert IPsec to L2TP - and we have not considered the issue so far. On the other hand, OpenVPN community claimed in late 2019 to open source the Linux kernel module of OpenVPN, and that could dramatically outperform IPsec even more (and outperform Wireguard too with AES-NI supporting systems as Wireguard does not support AES). https://openvpn.net/openvpn-hackathon-2019/ "The team expects to open source their kernel module in Q1 of 2020 and afterwards work on merging it into the kernel mainline." If you have any experimental data set showing IPsec beating the performance of OpenVPN 2 in our optimized setup please let us know. On top of that, we must also say that when we founded AirVPN in 2010 we preferred OpenVPN not on performance evaluations, but because the suspicion that NSA had compromised IPsec appeared legitimate. Later, such suspicions appeared even more legitimate, see for example the "Snowden documents" (Bullrun program, for example https://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg12325.html) as well as https://weakdh.org/imperfect-forward-secrecy.pdf page 9. Kind regards

A misinformed assumption, seeing as you have the Top Users page where users with the current top time, volume and throughput are ranked. Right now someone is transmitting 500 MBit/s… Anyway, pretty much everything is more performant than OpenVPN 2.x nowadays, be it OpenVPN 3, Wireguard or IPsec. Enjoy!