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To the great staff and founders and the helpful (non-toxic) community, Recent unanticipated life things are forcing me to cut all but the most essential things from my "budget," which is not much. I've been using the veep for nearly 8 years, that's a long time to stick with a single service in internet time. I have recommended airvpn countless times and continue to do so, often in the same breath as "...but there's also ProtonVPN and Mullvad, and Duckduckgo which I have yet to try." In other words, airvpn is always at the top of recommendations. I still believe in the essential mission and need of services like AirVPN. When you find how difficult it is to actually research corporate VPNs like Nord, which do not have the best track record, it can be difficult because their parent companies own some of the top review outlets (PC Magazine, tomshardware) or influence them with ad revenue. Even the "anti-scammer" youtube celebrities take sponsorship deals from sketchy or at least unverifiable VPN companies, because Nord and Express and Ghost etc. aren't open source, so we have to rely on a fly-by-night "auditing authorities," which don't answer to regulations or transparent oversight either. It's a battle not many people feel is worth paying attention to, but I have tried. You will find my trails of AirVPN recommendations across forums over the past 7 years, and I hope they helped. Maybe I'll be back in a month. Maybe a year. I don't know with my life right now. Goodbye! Gow

Hello! We're very glad to inform you that in the coming days, according to our infrastructure expansion and improvement plan, all the servers in Los Angeles, New York City and Phoenix will be replaced. The new servers will have much more powerful hardware and all of them will be connected to a 10 Gbit/s (full duplex) port with guaranteed bandwidth. Therefore, the infrastructure in the mentioned locations will be entirely upgraded to new 10 Gbit/s servers, with 3 servers in LA, 3 servers in Phoenix and 4 servers in New York City. The current servers will be decommissioned on November the 1st. Please note that all the new servers will have new IP addresses. Connectivity will be very similar, with the notable addition of GTT and Zayo as fiber and tier1 transit providers. Kind regards and datalove AirVPN Staff

This is indeed great news! Well done AirVPN! Does it include Saclateni, which was recently deployed late of last year? If so, are the new servers more powerful than Saclateni? And will each of these servers have full-duplex bandwidth of 20 Gbps? As you can see from the attached screenshot, connecting to Saclateni from Anaheim, CA, it shows similar latency (~ 8-9 ms) to other servers (Groombridge and Teegarden) in Los Angeles, CA. However, it's always puzzled me why I'd get similarly low latency (~ 8-9 ms) to other servers (Bootes, Chalawan, Indus, and Virgo) in Phoenix, AZ. How is it possible? It defies the laws of physics! Anaheim, CA to Los Angeles, CA is a shorter distance than to Phoenix, AZ. And latency is definitely affected by distance. Unless these ISPs figure out a way to tunnel packets through a worm hole! I call shenanigans! 😁