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Hello! Today we're starting AirVPN tenth birthday celebrations! From a two servers service located in a single country providing a handful of Mbit/s, the baby has grown up to a wide infrastructure in 22 countries in three continents, providing now 240,000+ Mbit/s to tens of thousands of people around the world. In 2019 and 2020, software development enhancement has paid off: now AirVPN develops on its own an OpenVPN3 forked library which resolves various problems from the main branch and adds new features. The library is used in Hummingbird, a free and open source software for Linux and Mac, known for its speed and compactness, in Eddie Android edition and in a new software which will be announced in June. Hummingbird has been released even for ARM based Linux devices, and runs fine for example in Raspberry PI. Eddie Desktop edition has been extensively rewritten to improve performance, reliability and security. Now anything not related to the user interface is written in C++ and a lot of security hardening has been implemented. Total compatibility with macOS Catalina, Windows 10 and latest Linux distributions has been achieved, and specific packages for various, widespread Linux distributions are available for easier installation. Eddie can act as a GUI for Hummingbird in Linux and Mac, while in Windows, Eddie can also be easily configured to run OpenVPN 2.5 with the wintun driver to achieve remarkable OpenVPN performance boost and put Windows on par with other systems OpenVPN throughput ability. Furthermore, the wintun driver resolves various problems which affected TAP-Windows driver. Development for OpenBSD and FreeBSD has been unfortunately re-planned but we're glad to announce here that it will continue, starting from summer 2020. All AirVPN applications and libraries are free and open source software released under GPLv3. We think that it's somehow surprising that AirVPN not only survived, but even flourished for 10 years, in an increasingly competitive market and increasingly privacy hostile environment. No whistles and bells, no marketing fluff, no fake locations, no advertising on mainstream media, a transparent privacy policy, no trackers on the web site or in mobile applications, no bullshit of any kind in our infrastructure to sell your personal data to any personal data merchant, and above all a clear mission that is the very reason which AirVPN operates for https://airvpn.org/mission , are probably, all together, the factors which allowed such a small "miracle" and maybe make AirVPN unique. Thank you all, you users, customers, members of the community, moderators, developers: the small "miracle" happened because of you, because you saw something in AirVPN. Kind regards and datalove AirVPN Staff

This is, again, subjective. WireGuard don't have TCP protocol support, it only use UDP protocol to transmit (according to WireGuard's website). The problem with it is that UDP tend to be blocked often than TCP. K-12 and Higher Education Institutions usually have their network to block UDP and some ISPs put a block on UDP as well. It is worthless to use WireGuard if the network have UDP blocked. WireGuard will not be a new king on platforms if it doesn't support plethora of protocol. On the other hand, OpenVPN have ranges of protocol it can use to transmit which make it versatile to use.

Ahh, that made sense why the topic seem a little off. I re-read the entire discussion to see where we are at. Based on the screenshot of the qBittorrent in the first post, it look like the magnet link is working as intended. On the bottom of the screenshot, it said it is retrieving metadata. That mean it is attempting to contact the trackers to get the information of the swarm whom have that file. But it couldn't get the metadata since the communication is blocked due to Network Lock which seem is the possible answer? Only way to know is qBittorrent log and I don't see anyone asking for qBittorrent log. The next step toward solution is to have @Bobba_fat to post the log to verify a few things. @Bobba_fat, can you try different torrent that have high peers. I strongly recommend looking for Linux distros (Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Arch Linux, CentOS, etc) since they have high amount of peers sharing the file. And yes, you can use Linux distros torrent since it is legal to share. Also make sure you can get it with magnet link? Arch Linux have a magnet link on their download page. Since we want to find the solution of this problem, I believe @Bobba_fat need to test on different bittorent client to confirm a few things. Another great torrent client is Tixati. So this way we can figure out if it is qBittorrent issue or Eddie issue.