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@MichelAIR too. Hello! It's the ISO 3166 string extracted by Eddie as usual for any country. You can ask ISO to include ROC on ISO 3166 as a sovereign country, but it will not happen. ISO builds the list according to those countries that are either UN members, parties of the statute of the ICJ or members of a UN agency, but Republic of China can't enter the UN because of the PRC veto. To make things worse, almost all the countries in the world, including the USA and the EU Member States, with the exception of 12 countries with lesser power in the UN such as Belize and Haiti, do not recognize the Republic of China as an independent country because, we guess, they fear too much the economic sanctions PRC will enforce against those countries that would do so. Our solution to list Taiwan as it was in ISO 3166 as a stand alone, recognized and independent country, with its own flag, its own place as a country in the servers list, its own country fully qualified domain name in the infrastructure, far from being funny should have told you everything. Building our own codes and strings by breaking ISO standard may become a bigger problem but we'll evaluate it (after all we already got out of ICANN for specific ICE-related "enforcement" more than a decade ago). The matter was already on the table as already announced in the "News" forum: https://airvpn.org/forums/topic/63201-new-1-gbits-server-available-new-country-tw/?do=findComment&comment=238819 and Eddie's next version will print "Taiwan, Republic of China". On one hand, by abiding to the ISO 3166 but moving ROC to an autonomous country as it has been in practice since decades we can keep using ISO standards (no technical complications, no exception handling and worse) but at the same time we show a clear political position and challenge PRC propaganda & mantra "there's only one China". The obvious strength of this position is the provocation to leave the ISO string and keeping ROC as an autonomous country, therefore claiming there there is NOT one China only and de-structuring the meaning of "Province of China". On the other hand, breaking ISO standards and UN decisions may be very questionable but somehow stronger. Also, to avoid losing the strength of the aforementioned provocation we can find alternative strings such as "Republic of China" directly (claiming Taipei in "Republic of China" can cause again adverse reactions by ignorant people). This is the picked modification for the next Eddie version, at the moment. No problems. The fight of elderly AirVPN members against PRC censorship, propaganda and more is a quarter of century old, so being accused to align with PRC against ROC is obscenely provocative, but the replies are (self or not) moderated. As far as it pertains to the initial reaction, it means that at least the provocation worked, although it was not fully understood in this case, and if it serves the purpose to push people to realize that it's the ISO (and the UN, secondarily) the one putting the string "Province of China" on the ISO 3166 doc, it's a good thing. Not to mention that it can also serve the purpose to make people question how come, how it's possible that one could become victim of PRC propaganda "there's only one China" when one is against PRC propaganda! Kind regards

Yeah dude... New Zealand is always 1 or 2 highest percentage of bandwidth used at any given moment. It carries all of Australia and New Zealand on it's back. What does the southern hemisphere really have? NZ and Brazil? For literally half the world? I feel like this has needed urgent attention for at least the last 12 months or so. Speeds have never been good sadly. I've probably peaked around 72mbps in that period with I'd say 70% of the time around 24mbps on a gigabit connection in Sydney 😢 . We'd need one or two 10000mbps servers. 2x 2000mbps servers was never gonna cut it.

Hello! It could. The current decision is that next Eddie Desktop edition version will print "Taiwan, Republic of China", by breaking ISO compliance and at the same time not leaving any doubt to PRC propaganda brainwashed people. This definition should be strong enough to satisfy everyone except mainland China and supporters of standards, of course. Kind regards

Bump, we are often running over 75% percent capacity most of the time in oceania.

Hello! The current Phoenix servers are in a Cogent datacenter in Phoenix, see also our previous message. Any provider may offer services inside totally owned or partially owned datacenters, or from not owned at all datacenters where entire racks are rented or similar agreements are finalized. The new Phoenix servers are in Phoenix, shipped at the beginning of October and arrived on site a few days ago, they are already connected and working, we are testing them and we are confident we will announce them before the end of October. There are dozens of datacenters in Phoenix, around 75 or so, including big ones like Google, Apple, NTT, Cogent and more. Kind regards

Hello! This information will not be disclosed at the moment in details but you may be informed in due time. No to the question and no to the assumption (wrong assumption). All of the current servers are in M247 property racks but not necessarily in M247 datacenters. The new servers will not necessarily be in the same datacenters and M247 will not own any of the new hardware. The current ones are M247, Cogent and Hurricane. Those reports spread false information, if they exist. The current Phoenix servers are in a Cogent datacenter located in Phoenix, this one: https://www.datacentermap.com/usa/arizona/phoenix/cogent-phoenix/ New servers are in a Phoenix datacenter as well. Kind regards

Hello! We inform you that within a few hours all the IP addresses of Alruba (Tallinn, Estonia) VPN server will change, due to a datacenter's decision. If you run AirVPN software, no action on your side is required. If you connect to Alruba through configuration files with IP address (and not domain name) please re-generate the file(s) in due time. The change is planned on 2024-Oct-09 at around 12.30 PM CEST. Kind regards AirVPN Staff

Good note. By code it seems to be trackers only. In libtorrent's http_tracker_connection.cpp: […] if (!m_ses.settings().anonymous_mode) { if (!settings.announce_ip.empty()) { url += "&ip=" + escape_string( settings.announce_ip.c_str(), settings.announce_ip.size()); […] m_tracker_connection->get(url, seconds(timeout) , tracker_req().event == tracker_request::stopped ? 2 : 1 , &m_ps, 5, settings.anonymous_mode ? "" : settings.user_agent , bind_interface() […] I don't think nodes establish connections via HTTP between each other. So yeah, good note. Probably doesn't work the way I imagined. And the docs do mention the necessity for the tracker to accept the ip parameter. That's why.

have you confirmed it also announces the specified IP address to DHT peers or only tracker based peers?

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I must say I'm disappointed... AirVPN stopped using the gif of the child throwing money out the window on their deal posts. You can't break tradition AirVPN team!

As it is, it is almost impossible for internet companies to keep a stable, long-term presence free of harassment in nations in or adjacent to CIS region, even ones not at war. In any case, I'd rather a provider withdraw from a country entirely than submit to its corruption to remain. AirVPN made a sound decision imho.