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Hello! Today we're starting AirVPN 13th birthday celebrations offering special, strong discounts on longer term plans. 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 23 countries in four continents, providing now 284,000 Mbit/s to tens of thousands of people around the world. AirVPN is now one of the only three major consumers' VPNs which are still independent, i.e. not owned by big corporations with multiple fields interests, interfering in editiorial publications or intersecting with products or services in conflict with privacy protection. Ever since we celebrated the past 12th birthday, AirVPN operated important, community driven changes: infrastructure power up. Through hardware renewal and new 2, 5 and 10 Gbit/s full duplex lines the infrastructure may deliver now up to 284,000 Mbit/s (full duplex) (+40,000 Mbit/s in one year) additional rewrite of the port forwarding, DDNS and key management service allowing multiple DDNS names and forwarded ports on a device basis various, new optional lists to block spam, ads, trackers and other malicious sources, featuring a unique and fine grained customization which is exclusive on the nowadays market revamped API new API Explorer to generate API call commands and examples from the web interface On the software side, all AirVPN applications and libraries are still free and open source software released under GPLv3. The development of traffic-splitting features on an application basis, already available in AirVPN Eddie Android and Android TV edition, has been planned for Desktop systems too. Check the promotional prices here: https://airvpn.org/buy Kind regards and datalove AirVPN Staff 

Happy birthday AirVPN ! The best VPN provider out there! 😉

Hello! The upgrade of all the servers marked as "1 Gbit/s" has been completed to at least 1 Gbit/s full duplex lines. Therefore we might now switch to "2 Gbit/s" in the servers monitor. In the past we did not do so because the hardware limits made it unrealistic beating a total of 1.2-1.3 Gbit/s throughput on a single server. Nowadays with WireGuard, and ever since we revamped the load balancing system on different OpenVPN instances, that limit is no more. That's why you can often see servers with "1000 Mbit/s" maximum availability providing much more than 1000 Mbit/s. In Dallas and in the Netherlands servers are connected to 10 Gbit/s (full duplex) lines, 10 servers per each line. We have also expanded our 10 Gbit/s lines in the Switzerland, Sweden, Bulgaria and the Netherlands (10 Gbit/s full duplex line, port and NIC for single servers). In various countries (Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, USA except New York City and other ones) we don't operate any server in M247 datacenters. Furthermore, all the expansions to 5 and 10 Gbit/s lines (full duplex) has been performed outside the M247 infrastructure. We will continue to do so. In general, in the nearest future M247 presence in our infrastructure should not exceed 30% of the total amount of servers, and should not exceed 15% of the amount of total "available" bandwidth. We have no plans at this very moment for alternative providers in New York City, though. Please consider that the USA housing/hosting market is frequently hostile against VPNs and often against p2p as a protocol in itself, even when it is used to deliver content legally. Since we remained faithful to our mission preserving Net Neutrality (no discrimination against any protocol and application) it's difficult to find a USA provider we can rely on, and M247 is hands down one the most reliable in the world (not only in the USA, of course), so far. Kind regards

Indeed, it most certainly has something to do with the search warrant, search that was actually more like a simple visit for a cup of tea, based on what I read in your link nothing was seized, nobody was indicted, etc. It's a shame after years of running they cancel a crucial service (port forwarding) at the fist knock in the door... but it was expected based on how they choose their hosting partners (see differences between AirVPN countries and their countries.) at first, for a beginner, it might look better but in fact it's not as the fact proves us. I am confident AirVPN will be rock solid and of course this is discrimination terminating a feature because *some* use it for unlawful purposes. It's like saying I'm not selling cars any more because some people use cars to rob banks. So many services are useless without port forwarding.

Happy birthday, boarded 2 friends

Allow me a brief, maybe emotional rant now, as a disappointed Mullvad customer and happy AirVPN customer. What Mullvad just did asserts a dangerous principle: if an online service or a technology can be abused by some people, then suspend that service for everyone. How long before this principle is extended to Tor hidden services, end to end encryption, p2p protocols, or VPN services themselves, by leveraging precisely the wretched behavior of the same actors (Mullvad today, others in the past) offering the same service itself?

Maybe I am splitting hairs about the GUI in AirVPN here, but it just looks a little odd for me... In my case, using Linux Mint 21.1, everything works as it should. But, what I do have, is an issue with the configuration button at the top left of the window, and also the panel daemon. They show either a context menu, or as a list, with the "Disconnect" option as the second item at the top of the list. Like this....... The options (above) appear to be in the wrong place; so I would dearly like to see AirVPN re-situate the options in both the GUI and the panel Daemon as shown below. The Disconnect option always catches me out and instead of hiding the app's icon in the panel, I end up disconnecting from the session. 😬 My logic would be, to have the Hide Main Window at the top of the list and Disconnect somewhere below, like so; This appears to be un-editable action, unless one has a deeper knowledge of css. Is it unreasonable to request a revamp of the GUI? Would anyone else agree? Thanks

That's good, the commotion worked then, but the accursed table fiercely preserves all his mistakes. Hopefully one will not need "all this commotion" for every independent review posted... right? ... ... ... RIGHT!?!? 😏 Again, well done and well written. 👍

After all this commotion Reddit moderators lifted censorship against my review in /r/vpnreviews so the review is visible in that subreddit too! "Victory" against censorship. 😋 ✌️

@Orfeo Hello! Just an additional note, if you need your Mac to communicate with your internal network when connected to the VPN, assuming that your internal network has devices in 192.168.0.0/16: block out all pass out quick on <your_network_interface> from 192.168.0.0/16 to <AirVPN_server_entry_IP> pass out quick on <your_network_interface> from 192.168.0.0/16 to 192.168.0.0/16 pass out quick on tun0 from any to any Finally, you may add as many "pass out ... to as you wish, listing all the Air servers entry-IP addresses, in order to switch swiftly from one server to another. Kind regards