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@Stalinium Thank you. "Renew" is correct and accurate while "Regenerate" is inaccurate if not wrong. See also OpenSourcerer message. That said you all are right, English is not the first language of any member of the AirVPN staff and only one founder has a University doctoral preparation in English language (in scientific English, not in English literature), but he can't read and fix every and each document written by the whole staff. We promise we will do our best to improve. Kind regards

With all due respect for an old time customer like you, comparing AirVPN with ExpressVPN is an insult we can't accept. ExpressVPN has always been perfectly aware that one of its executives was an American intelligence operative who helped UAE human rights hostile government in cracking operations. We do agree with Edward Snowden when he says that you must not use ExpressVPN. Incidentally, ExpressVPN is now part of a big group that, throughout the past decade, was an adware based business with shady privacy practices. Please check: https://www.vice.com/en/article/3aq9p5/expressvpn-uae-hacking-project-raven-daniel-gericke https://twitter.com/josephfcox/status/1438127822883729412 https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1438291654239215619 https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/14/expressvpn_bought_kape/ Kind regards

@Staff My issue in my last comment has been solved. It appears that for airwhiteserverlist to work, country must be set with an ISO code that is all lower case. Otherwise I get the Error described above. Thank you for your time and help! This thread can now be closed.

Well, it is a language barrier, but not in the way you imagine. A barrier between tech and non-tech, rather than Italian and English or something. Renewing is a technical term describing a process where something gets deleted and a different something of its kind placed in its stead. Example would be the OpenSSL keys in an OpenVPN connection, a prerequisite for Forward Secrecy. Another one would be renewal of a DHCP IP address, where the old one is dropped and replaced with a new one assigned by the DHCP server (Windows users might know this by the command ipconfig /renew). A ring to rule them all. And you must know, IT technicians are at times just about as lazy as mathematicians (call it practical, if you must), so why call the one "regenerate" and the other "reassign" when "renew" covers both, and then some? Here's some fingerfood for those who want to peek behind the curtain, by the way. Also, I'm not against the proposition. It's just that the page itself says to only use it if you suspect abuse… and that connections get killed… and that configs must be regenerated. Kinda sus.

A bit of psychological support. Stalinium, you are not the only one. I had precisely the same experience and the same reservations about the terminology maybe a year ago when I first pushed that button. I am sympathetic though to English clearly not being the first language of at least most of the Air staff. It shows in their posts in general. I can nearly always comprehend just fine, but sometimes the wording feels peculiar. It's to be expected, and I'm certainly happier having them in Italy than in one of the English-dominant surveillance states. Long live Italian! OpenSourcerer, thanks for your patience. Much appreciated. As to what we expected to happen from "renew," think about OpenVPN's periodic internal key renewal. From the point of view of us mere users, it's a mysterious, behind-the-scenes thing that magically improves security. The first time I hit "renew," that's what my clueless nanobrain was thinking: magic, security, a button to push now and then. Having to redo configs encouraged me to study up and aim for microbrain status.

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.

Moved to off-topic as support with qB is requested. Correlation != Causation. Please try upgrading qB to latest version first. qB offers an official PPA for this. Test it with the newest version and if unsuccessful, come back here.

Can decline that, M247 never had physical locations on these POPs, they were virtual from the beginning. True but it worked before M247 was so heavily used. You can find a provider if you want, you just have to search, but its more convinient for Air to aggregate at one provider (one invoice.. one support team.. more discount..).But there are also other big provider which doesnt give a damn about DMCA and still provide multiple locations, datapacket (cdn77) for example where IVPN has quite a few servers. I just dont like the concentration of M247..

Would the use of a VPN, such as AirVPN or ProtonVPN (in this case, I believe the users did not use the bundled service) or TOR prevent this situation? In the transparency report; the state over 700 cases of this nature out of 3000+ Legal orders. In which ProtonMail's parent corporation representation states they fought and denied hundreds more improper orders sent on by the Swiss authorities. Interestingly, most do not understand email is not a secure service by default, and ProtonMail's whole thing is encryption, because ultimately such as any VPN or service will know the originating IP of a user. The company was required to log, after legal request, which from a financial point of view, I believe is true because it costs money to data mine without any benefit, unlike Google for example. Also, when does an IP equal an individual? There must be more to the story. More reasons to use AirVPN imo, vs protonvpn because: no ZenDesk, no outsourced customer service, no outsourced payment processors, no parent company holdings as far as I know. Also I love the openess of your code, and willing to work with outsiders, such as the CLI wrapper. The activism also I agree with. So important: I created this account with the ability to use no linking information to anything, including a random string with @ and .com

Use DuckDuckgo browser and set it to erase all datas when u exit