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Hello! We inform you that an emergency maintenance due to urgent hardware replacement will be ongoing on 2021-09-18 between 19 and 23 CEST on the Dallas datacenter. The maintenance will impact all of our VPN servers in Dallas: expected downtime is approximately 30 minutes. Kind regards AirVPN Staff

The server is not in Berlin. M247, AS9009 does not have peering in Berlin. I checked with a looking glass run by a very nice person and it has multiple servers from different networks in Frankfurt and one server in Berlin. Apart from outsiders that have 14ms ping from allegedly FRA to FRA, most pings are ~1ms and confirm what traceroutes here show. The only lg Berlin server to Air's Cujam has got 8ms ping. That lg Berlin server is hosted on a network that's has peering at BCIX and ECIX-BER. Even if the Cujam server were 'physically in Berlin' then it doesn't matter because what matters to users is latency, alias geographic location. Back to what M247 say themselves, all four German DCs are in Frankfurt: Ancotel (Equinix), Interxion FRA4, Telehouse Frankfurt, Global Switch Frankfurt https://m247.com/services/host/dedicated-servers/ https://m247.com/services/cloud-hosting/ https://m247.com/services/host/colocation/ The only location in Germany on this map is Frankfurt. I cannot thoroughly check Spain, but again AS9009 is at DE-CIX Madrid and doesn't appear to be present at DE-CIX Barcelona, two Madrid servers' pings are 0.3ms and 2ms to "Barcelona" Eridanus. Whatever the reasons, the current descriptions are not representing the reality. PS: Actually the entire prefix/subnet is reported as Berlin by M247. Hence the geolocation databases say it is "in Berlin", that's the definition of a "virtual location" right? Still I see how it could be useful in certain cases even though the server is not physically there. Until this is clearly indicated, it will be a shortcoming especially in terms of sincerity and transparency.

@cannac Hello! A solution which might meet your needs is partitioning the US Air VPN servers set into three empty intersection subsets, one per device, compiling airwhitserverlist directive with a unique subset in each device, and finally restarting the three connections via Goldcrest on the US country basis. and finally defining the connection mode in bluetit.rc as quick. If the connection mode is not defined as quick Bluetit ignores white and black lists but it does not warn you. A warning in the log and a clarification on the documentation will be implemented. By doing so you will never have two or more devices connecting to the same server. when the air-connect command for the same country is issued by different clients in different devices. If Bluetit connects during the machine bootstrap, remember to send disconnect first: enabled persistent network lock by directive networklockpersist ensures no traffic leak outside the VPN tunnel. In a future Bluetit version we might implement a new Bluetit run control file directive defining a white list for automatic connection at bootstrap so that you will not need to send a connection order via a client later on. Kind regards

When I first heard of it, I immediately dismissed it. Google has a "private" subscription version of Gmail, too. No idea how many services Google offers, thousands, I'd imagine. They don't seem to advertize very thoroughly, rather they bombard you browsing. I began blocking all things Google long ago. On the occasions when I set up a new computer or whatever and am forced to use Google Search without an ad blocker I remember how awful it is (getting worse) and wonder why users put up with an ad server that provides a few search results thrown in for fun. The Android version defines infinite scrolling. Sorry for the diversion but I can't imagine their VPN being any more than an annoying client that sends you ads, forwards stupid notifications and collects data. Avoiding Google is one of the top reasons I use VPN's.

While the above information is good to know, the biggest reason you don't want to use NordVPN is because they use shared certificates, as do the vast majority of VPN providers. If you are using shared certificates, all it takes is someone to hijack your login info and they can mirror your session. This is why I picked AirVPN, they use unique certificates. Before I setup my account with AirVPN, I asked them this question and this was their response: the client certificate and the client key are of course unique. We don't think that any well designed service can provide the same key to multiple clients (yes, we know that some services do that, but they are just jokes for gullible people, not real services). I asked this question of multiple providers and the majority wouldn't even answer it or they weren't truthful about it. However, Nord did verify that it uses shared certs.