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Hi, I've been using AirVPN for about an hour and so far I love it, huge improvement over my previous VPN. I mostly use it for torrenting with Qbittorrent. I enabled port forwarding and am getting really good speeds so far. However, I am confused by the server selection. I live in the midwest US and it automatically chooses a server in Canada every time I connect. Should I just trust that this is the best option? I don't understand the ratings or how to sort by fastest bandwidth. I would prefer to just use auto select, set and forget, but am I missing out on a faster server closer to me? Also, random other question-- why is the client called Eddie? Thanks! I'm really happy to have found a decent VPN, hopefully I'll be with AirVPN for a long time!

@Undated8198 Hello, we have no plans to remove port forwarding, quite the contrary: we are currently deploying resources to delay port exhaustion and find alternative, but comfortable, procedures to keep offering this service in anticipation of port exhaustion. As you can see we already limited to new customers the amount of bookable ports, in order to preserve advertised features to those who are already our customers. We are committed to avoid retro-active modifications of the service for pre-existing customers, when such modifications would be detrimental for the service or anyway betraying an advertised feature. Kind regards

With news of Mullvad and now IVPN removing port forwarding, can we have assurance from staff that AirVPN is not planning to remove port forwarding?

This is by design, see for example: Huh? Of course it does – for supported websites and services. And offering double hop between servers of the same VPN provider does not add anything to privacy, safety or security, it just caters to unnecessary paranoia. The solid recommendation is to use Tor as it is designed to route traffic through multiple nodes. Much more thorough and battle-tested as when AirVPN would implement something akin to it.