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Hello! We're very glad to inform you that two new 10 Gbit/s full duplex servers located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, are available: Taiyangshou and Vindemiatrix. The AirVPN client will show automatically the new servers; if you use any other OpenVPN or WireGuard client you can generate all the files to access them through our configuration/certificates/key generator (menu "Client Area"->"Config generator"). The servers accept connections on ports 53, 80, 443, 1194, 2018 UDP and TCP for OpenVPN and ports 1637, 47107 and 51820 UDP for WireGuard. They support OpenVPN over SSL and OpenVPN over SSH, TLS 1.3, OpenVPN tls-crypt and WireGuard. Full IPv6 support is included as well. As usual no traffic limits, no logs, no discrimination on protocols and hardened security against various attacks with separate entry and exit-IP addresses. You can check the status as usual in our real time servers monitor : https://airvpn.org/servers/Taiyangshou https://airvpn.org/servers/Vindemiatrix Do not hesitate to contact us for any information or issue. Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Staff

Hello! We're very glad to inform you that the Black Friday weeks have started in AirVPN! Save up to 74% when compared to one month plan price Check all plans and discounts here: https://airvpn.org/buy If you're already our customer and you wish to jump aboard for a longer period, any additional subscription will be added on top of already existing subscriptions and you will not lose any day. AirVPN is one of the oldest and most experienced consumer VPN on the market, operating since 2010. It never changed ownership and it was never sold out to data harvesting or malware specialized companies as it regrettably happened to several competitors. Ever since 2010 AirVPN has been faithful to its mission. AirVPN does not inspect and/or log client traffic and offers: five simultaneous connections per account (additional connection slots available if needed) state of the art and flexible inbound remote port forwarding active daemons load balancing for unmatched high performance - current 'all time high' on client side is 730 Mbit/s with OpenVPN and 2000 Mbit/s with WireGuard flexible and customizable opt-in block lists protecting you from adware, trackers, spam and other malicious sources. You can customize answers or exceptions globally, at account level or even at single device level. powerful API IPv6 full support comfortable management of your client certificates and keys AES-GCM and ChaCha20 OpenVPN ciphers on all servers Perfect Forward Secrecy with unique per-server 4096 bit Diffie-Hellman keys internal DNS. Each server runs its own DNS server. DNS over HTTPS and DNS over TLS are also supported. free and open source software client side software support to traffic splitting on an application basis on Android and Linux and on a destination basis on Windows and macOS GPS spoofing on Android application AirVPN is the only VPN provider which is actively developing OpenVPN 3 library with a fork that's currently 330 commits ahead of OpenVPN master and adds key features and bug fixes for a much more comfortable and reliable experience: https://github.com/AirVPN/openvpn3-airvpn AirVPN, in accordance with its mission, develops only free and open source software for many platforms, including Android, Linux (both x86 and ARM based systems), macOS and Windows. Promotion due to end on 2025-12-03 (UTC). Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Staff

Man im tempted to buy more time but I think im covered

Hello! We're very glad to announce that Eddie Android edition 4.0.0 Beta 1 is now available. This is a major update: for the first time Eddie Android edition features AmneziaWG complete support. Eddie Android edition is a fully integrated with AirVPN, free and open source client allowing comfortable connections to AirVPN servers and generic VPN servers offering compatible protocols. Eddie 4.0.0 aims primarily at adding, besides the already available OpenVPN and WireGuard, a thorough and comfortable AmneziaWG support. AmneziaWG is a free and open source fork of WireGuard by Amnezia inheriting the architectural simplicity and high performance of the original implementation, but eliminating the identifiable network signatures that make WireGuard easily detectable by Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) systems. It can operate in several different ways, including a fallback, "compatibility mode" with WireGuard featuring anyway various obfuscation techniques. What's new in Eddie 4.0.0 AmneziaWG support Amnezia WireGuard API updated OpenSSL, OpenVPN3-AirVPN and WireGuard libraries see the complete changelog below AmneziaWG overview From the official documentation: https://docs.amnezia.org/documentation/amnezia-wg AmneziaWG offers: Dynamic Headers for All Packet Types (compatibility with WireGuard: YES) During tunnel initialization, the library generates a set of random constants applied to each of the four WireGuard packet formats: Init, Response, Data, Under‑Load. These constants: Replace predictable WireGuard packet identifiers; Shift offsets of Version/Type fields; Modify reserved bits. As a result, no two clients have identical headers, making it impossible to write a universal DPI rule. Handshake Length Randomization (compatibility with WireGuard: NO) In WireGuard, the Init packet is exactly 148 bytes, and the Response packet is exactly 92 bytes. AmneziaWG adds pseudorandom prefixes S1 and S2 (0-64 bytes by default): len(init) = 148 + S1 len(resp) = 92 + S2 Offsets of the remaining fields are automatically adjusted, and MAC tags are recalculated accordingly. In order to keep backward compatibility with WireGuard, S1 and S2 must be set to 0. Obfuscation Packets I1-I5 (Signature Chain) & CPS (Custom Protocol Signature) (compatibility with WireGuard: partial, with fallback) Before initiating a "special" handshake (every 120 seconds), the client may send up to five different UDP packets fully described by the user in the CPS format. In this way AmneziaWG can mimic perfectly QUIC, DNS and other protocols adding powerful methods to circumvent blocks. QUIC is particularly interesting as HTTP/3 is built on it and currently, from Chrome and other compatible browsers, 50% of traffic to/from Google is QUIC traffic. Therefore, blocking QUIC may have major disruptions for any ISP. Junk‑train (Jc) (compatibility with WireGuard: YES) Immediately following the sequence of I-packets, a series Jc of pseudorandom packets with lengths varying between Jmin and Jmax is sent. These packets blur the timing and size profile of the session start, significantly complicating handshake detection. Under‑Load Packet (compatibility with WireGuard: YES) In WireGuard, a special keep-alive packet (“Under-Load”) is used to bypass NAT timeouts. AmneziaWG replaces its fixed header with a randomized one, the value of which can be set manually. This prevents DPI from filtering short ping packets, ensuring stable tunnel connections, especially on mobile networks. How to use Eddie with AmneziaWG To enable AmneziaWG mode, just tap the connection mode available in the main and other views. It will rotate between WireGuard, AmneziaWG and OpenVPN. Set it to AmneziaWG. In its default AmneziaWG mode, Eddie will use all the possible obfuscation, except protocol mimicking, that keeps WireGuard compatibility, thus allowing connections to AirVPN servers. The default settings choice was possible thanks to the invaluable support of persons living in countries where VPN blocks are widespread. Such settings have been tested as working and capable to bypass the current blocking methods in various countries. You may consider to modify them if they are ineffective to bypass "your" specific blocks. In Settings > Advanced, you will find, at the bottom of the page, a new "Custom Amnezia WG directives" item. By tapping it you will summon a dialog that will let you customize any possible AmneziaWG parameter. You can maintain backward compatibility with WireGuard in the dialog WireGuard section, or enable the full AmneziaWG support in the Amnezia section, which is not compatible (at the moment) with AirVPN WireGuard servers. This mode will be mostly valuable in a not distant future, when AirVPN servers will start to support AmneziaWG natively. You may also enable QUIC or DNS mimicking for additional obfuscation efficacy. In order to maintain WireGuard backward compatibility, with or without QUIC or DNS mimicking, you must set: S1 = S2 = 0 Hn ∈ {1, 2, 3, 4} H1 ≠ H2 ≠ H3 ≠ H4 Furthermore, do not exceed the valid limit of the J parameters (anyway Eddie will not let you do it). In this preview version, Eddie's formal control of the input data is based on the following document. We strongly recommend you read it if you need to modify manually parameters: https://github.com/amnezia-vpn/amneziawg-linux-kernel-module?tab=readme-ov-file#configuration Please do not modify In parameters if you don't know exactly what you're doing. Eddie implements QUIC and DNS mimicking and random obfuscation packets for each specific "I" parameter (by using the corresponding "Generate" button). You can enable them with a tap on the proper buttons. You may mimic QUIC and DNS even to connect to WireGuard based servers. When you enable QUIC mimicking and you maintain WireGuard backward compatibility, you add a powerful tool against blocks, because the first packets will be actual QUIC packets. AmneziaWG will fall back to WireGuard compatibility very soon. However, when DPI and SPI tools, and demultiplexers in general, identify the initial QUIC flow, most of them will be unable to detect a WireGuard flow for several minutes. This has been tested thoroughly with deep packet inspection on Linux and FreeBSD based machines by AirVPN staff. Therefore, in different blocking scenarios the QUIC mimicking increases likelihood of successful block bypass. NOTE: the same does not happen with DNS mimicking. In this case DPI / SPI tools identify the stream initially as DNS, but are much quicker (just in a few dozens of packets) to identify the stream as WireGuard's, after the initial DNS identification. If you decide to test, please report at your convenience any bug and problem in this thread. If possible generate a report from the app in a matter of seconds: by tapping the paper plane icon on the Log view bar rightmost side you will generate a full system report which will include both log and logcat and have it sent to our servers. Then you just need to send us the link the app shows you (open a ticket if you prefer to do it in private). Download link, checksum and changelog https://eddie.website/repository/Android/4.0.0-Beta1/EddieAndroid-4.0.0-Beta-1.apk This is a build debug package and side load is mandatory. $ sha256sum EddieAndroid-4.0.0-Beta-1.apk 617269290a0406237646cc0885e5b10f3916252f89fe82ba9ccb947354980fcb EddieAndroid-4.0.0-Beta-1.apk Changelog 4.0.0 (VC 37) - Release date: 26 November 2025 by ProMIND Native Library [ProMIND] updated to version 4.0.0, API 10 [ProMIND] added Amnezia WireGuard API [ProMIND] updated to OpenVPN-AirVPN 3.12 (20251126) AirVPNUser.java [ProMIND] getWireGuardProfile(): added Amnezia support ConnectAirVPNServerFragment.java [ProMIND] showConnectionInfo(): added AmneziaWG logo display [ProMIND] onCreateContextMenu(): added AmneziaWG items [ProMIND] onContextItemSelected(): added AmneziaWG items [ProMIND] added method loadVPNProfile() ConnectVpnProfileFragment.java [ProMIND] added Amnezia support EddieLibraryResult.java [ProMIND] added Amnezia WireGuard API QuickConnectFragment.java [ProMIND] onCreateView(): added AmneziaWG logo display [ProMIND] updateStatusBox(): added AmneziaWG logo display SettingsActivity.java [ProMIND] added "Custom AmneziaWG directives" setting SettingsManager.java [ProMIND] added Amnezia specific settings and methods SupportTools.java [ProMIND] removed method getVPNProfile() VPN.java [ProMIND] added methods enableAmneziaWireGuard() and isWireGuardAmneziaEnabled() VPNManager.java [ProMIND] added method isWireGuardAmneziaEnabled() VPNProfileDatabase.java [ProMIND] added AMNEZIA type WebViewerActivity.java [ProMIND] EddieWebViewClient.shouldOverrideUrlLoading(): it now properly opens android asset files WireGuardClient.java [ProMIND] added WireGuard tunnel node to constructor [ProMIND] added methods for generating Amnezia's junk settings WireGuardTunnel.java [ProMIND] added support for Amnezia WireGuard [ProMIND] added Mode enum [ProMIND] added tunnel node to constructor EddieLibrary.java [ProMIND] added Amnezia WireGuard API Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Staff

We have kept the OP message to show the pervasiveness of the PRC's propaganda lackeys. We consider Taiwan (Republic of China) to be independent and autonomous from the PRC (People's Republic of China), as it is in fact. ipleak uses MaxMind and IANA databases to display results, and we are pleased that these are aligned with an anti-imperialist and democratic vision that is clearly unpalatable to the dictatorial regime of the PRC, which sees it as an obstacle to its expansionist ambitions.

I mean, the guarantee is actually in mbps. I wish they guaranteed 4gbps!

While I love that you continue to support OpenVPN would you please reconsider a few WireGuard‑only 10–20 Gbit servers to quantify the uplift for users who prioritize raw speed and low latency? It’s my understanding that OpenVPN server processes are single‑threaded and CPU‑intensive. Co‑hosting OpenVPN and WireGuard on the same high‑capacity host (10–20 Gbit) can constrain aggregate throughput under load because per‑core bottlenecks caps per‑host headroom when many OpenVPN clients are active. In cities where you have multiple 20 Gbit servers like New York dedicating one to Wireguard doesn't seem unreasonable? Thank you for your consideration.

Hi Archaon1, I'm glad I could help you. Six months ago, I was just a newbie, but thanks to the community's help, I grew rapidly. Now, I can finally help others too. That's the meaning of a community. Haha, it's really satisfying to help others. 🎉🎉🎉

Hello! After a year of using AirVPN I'm very happy with the product. Website has no bloat whatsoever and it's super easy to find what you are looking for. A huge plus goes out for having an active forum available! Much better option compared to social media idiocies. Also port forwarding has been executed greatly - many other VPN services miss that altogether but even those which support it can't match AirVPN's easy-to-use robust system. Config generator is a great plus too since I'm using both WireGuard app and WireSock depending on the situation and needs. Both run just fine and very few VPN's could match this level of usability. I sometimes have dissapointing speeds with P2P, but usually a simple server change fixes it. Overall very happy customer. Please have a beer AirVPN staff, you've deserved it!

Logbook of an old salt, written on the first day of a fresh two-year voyage aboard the proud AirVPN fleet: Brethren and sister privateers, The yearly discount chest has been opened once again, and I have filled my hold with twenty-four more months of wind. While the quartermaster counts the gold, let this weathered mariner raise a weather-beaten voice: We need a berth in Poland. One single, sturdy server flying the white-and-red banner would save an entire nation of sailors from slow death by a thousand of exceptions. Behold the enemies that lie in wait in Polish waters: The heavy galleon Poczta Polska (Polish Post) and her tender Envelo (online postage)The ironclad banks that fire broadsides the moment a foreign IP drops anchorThe judicial fortresses and their batteriesLegal archives, university libraries, and even honest merchant carracks All of them roar: “No foreign keel shall pass!” The only way to trade with them is to rip plank after plank from our own hulls – dozens, sometimes hundreds of holes in iptables so the cannonballs of “access denied” fly straight through. (Call it split-tunneling if ye be landlubbers; we call it scuttling the ship to save the cargo.) I have sailed these waters for years in the AirVPN flotilla, and the oceans grow darker every season. Ports that once welcomed us now slam the gates. The great YouTube leviathan mistakes every one of our frigates for a pirate bot and demands we strike our colours and show papers none of us will ever sign. So we dance the server hornpipe – Netherlands to Switzerland to Sweden to Canada – tacking frantically until one harbour opens its arms for a fleeting moment, only to chase us out again before the song is over. Need to see them Canadian iron beasts racing the prairie? We glide in under Japanese colours, drop anchor for a fleeting moment of peace… then, the instant the port starts sniffing at our false ensign, we cut the cable and fly before the black-list cannonade roars. This be not the fault of our admirable Admiral and the crew – ‘tis the spirit of the age trying to chain the very sea itself – but one safe haven on Polish soil would turn a gauntlet of fire into a calm inland lake for all local hands. May fair winds fill AirVPN sails forever! May the fleet grow stronger every year! Hail Poland! Hail AirVPN! Hail all ye beautiful bastards and bitches who still believe the high seas should be free! Yours in rum and packets, An old Polish privateer 🇵🇱

That's because the AirVPN team didn't write a forums software from scratch, they picked an existing software and adapted it to the special needs of their infrastructure. A gender field in users' profiles is not a special need, given that 98% of people around here don't bother changing profile settings, let alone edit their profile. IP.Board is a "generic" forums software which can be used in many environments. In some of them contact info, birthdays and genders make sense. In some of them, including airvpn.org, they don't.

First of all, it's Michigan, a state in the US, not some country, and second, the article also goes into that, stating that the ISPs lack tech to reliably identify VPNs without invasive DPI, which might be a violation of the 4th Amendment. Also, it's a proposed bill, if I read it right, so the statement "will ban vpns soon" is not exactly correct as of today. Relax and calm down first. Anyway, OpenVPN over SSH or SSL or AmneziaWG would probably bypass any of these restrictions, and these have been live for years now.

this is actually a post....... Ich bin ein Berliner

@Ptwifty Hello! This is a regrettable attempt to irritate AirVPN customers as retaliation by Eddie for not granting him certain benefits after almost 15 years of service. We will have to suppress these attempts at rebellion with a firm and unyielding hand. Joking aside, it seems that you have defined Sheratan as the only server to which Eddie can connect. From your description, you say that you have defined a blacklist with a single server, but in reality you have defined a whitelist with that single server. Please re-check your lists in the "Servers" window. Kind regards

@Bohdan Kushnirchuk Hello! How to solve: To grant Terminal full disk access (except some specific critical directories) on macOS, follow these steps: Open System Settings (or System Preferences): On macOS Ventura and later, click the Apple menu at the top-left of your screen, then choose System Settings. On macOS Monterey or earlier, choose System Preferences. Go to Privacy & Security: In System Settings (Ventura and later), select Privacy & Security in the left-hand menu. In System Preferences (Monterey and earlier), click Security & Privacy, then go to the Privacy tab. Select Full Disk Access: In the Privacy & Security or Security & Privacy tab, scroll down and click Full Disk Access in the left menu. Unlock Settings: At the bottom-left of the window, you might need to click the lock icon and enter your admin password to make changes. Add Terminal: Once the lock is open, click the + button beneath the list of apps with Full Disk Access. In the file chooser window that pops up, go to Applications > Utilities, and select Terminal. Click Open to add it to the list. Restart Terminal: Close the Terminal app if it’s open, then reopen it to apply the changes. 2. Open the terminal and change ownership of the relevant files: sudo chown root /Applications/Eddie.app/Contents/MacOS/* Kind regards

AIRVPN DOES NOT RECOGNIZE ANYMORE VERISIGN, AFILIAS AND ICANN AUTHORITY. OUR COMMITMENT AGAINST UNITED STATES OF AMERICA UNFAIR AND ILLEGAL DOMAIN NAMES SEIZURES. The United States of America authorities have been performing domain names seizures since the end of 2010. The seizures have been performed against perfectly legal web-sites and/or against web-sites outside US jurisdiction. Administrators of some of those web-sites had been previously acquitted of any charge by courts in the European Union. The domain name seizures affect the world wide web in its entirety since they are performed bypassing the original registrar and forcing VeriSign and Afilias (american companies which administer TLDs like .org, .net, .info and .com) to transfer the domain name to USA authorities property. No proper judicial overview is guaranteed during the seizure. Given all of the above, we repute that these acts: - are a violation of EU citizens fundamental rights, as enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights; - are an attack against the Internet infrastructure and the cyberspace; - are a strong hint which shows that decision capacities of USA Department of Justice and ICE are severely impaired; and therefore from now on AirVPN does not recognize VeriSign, Afilias and/or ICANN authority over domain names. AirVPN refuses to resolve "seized" domain names to the IP address designated by USA authorities, allowing normal access to the original servers' websites / legitimate Ip addresses. In order to fulfil the objective, we have put in place an experimental service which is already working fine. If you find anomalies, please let us know, the system will surely improve in time. Kind regards AirVPN admins

Thank you!

I must commend the AI here – I wouldn't have thought of asking you whether you installed Eddie from scratch or copied over the profile. Most of the times those AIs catch mentions of one or two words in contexts of other words and hallucinate about the rest of the meaning, but this one was a good answer.

Okay, I'll listen to you. You're more professional than me.😊😊😊

That’s a really solid breakdown, and it honestly explains why people get tripped up with TikTok mods and similar apps. Back in the XDA and GitHub days, trust came from the community, not from some shiny website repeating “safe” fifteen times. What you said about real modders avoiding those polished download pages is spot on. I was chatting with someone at SEO Discovery about this kind of thing recently, and they mentioned how those overly SEO-optimized sites tend to target people who don’t know the difference between a genuine project and a sketchy clone. Your experience pretty much lines up with that.

I'll look into it, thank you

Emule, I'm glad to see that this side of internet isn't dead! Little question if i may : i used unlocker to get rid of the files. Windows was saying that i needed the authorisation of ThrustDLL or something like that. How would you have granted yourself a higher authority...on your own pc? (The classic windows "I bought you, I assembled you...I OWN YOUUUU")

Hi Emule, Hard to follow someone with 35 posts but it worked out! I was a bit suspicious when you asked about deleting system32's files but my VPN is working fine now ^^ Thanks a lot, I wouldn't have found it on my own. For the data : i did the suppression of all the files and the reboot of the network

Please add more tunneling options! Day by day censorship around the world becomes worse and worse, OpenVPN and Wireguard is already completely blocked in many countries because it is easily detectable using DPI. Since the mid 2010's people out there have been working very hard on much more censorship-resilient solutions rather than simple-to-detect SSH and SSL-wrapping. The days of the games of privacy are over, now VPNs are more and more used by the people around the world to break the information bubbles created by their oppressive governments. Here are some examples of the new tunneling methods that you could add to your services: https://github.com/erebe/wstunnel https://github.com/cbeuw/Cloak https://github.com/v2fly/v2ray-core https://github.com/XTLS/Xray-core

I installed AmneziaVPN, downloaded generated configuration (Nederland) UPD 1637 and connected. It works with and without these changes in [Interface] section. I did not change any other config values in AmneziaVPN. Now, I tried to use EddieUI with default params and it works too! Looks like domestic regulators have holiday in Uzbekistan... I will try again tomorrow.

Traveling to Uzbekistan. I cannot connect to any AirVpn server anymore. It worked fine in USA. Any protocol available in Eddie UI do not work. Unfortunately I paid for the whole year of AirVPN service. Looks like the XRay or something similar is the way to go...

Great! Eddie finally supports AmneziaWG, and UDP finally has a masquerade protocol. Another protocol has been added to the list of protocols for bypassing China's Great Firewall.

Hello! Yes. The kernel already does a wonderful job to distribute fairly bandwidth, aided by the excellent ability to scale of WireGuard. OpenVPN is a little more problematic but we force a round robin distribution of peers on different instances to balance core load. Where a limit must be enforced artificially is in the amount of concurrent connections INSIDE the tunnel. Normally we allow the maximum amount supported by a powerful home router, i.e. 20000 concurrent connections per node. This limit is usually not even noticed by the users as it is well beyond the usage of virtually all of our user base. Kind regards

@oilers You know I was playing around with transmission and have come to the same conclusion - just stay with what works! qBittorrent it is!!!

as far as i know its all leased after stringent vetting process. servers have been discontinued at times in places which the safety and quality can't be reasonably assured.

Hello! Holy moly whack a moly, from you description the outcome seems correct and expected, apparently (again from your description) you missed entirely to configure and run any listening program, can you clarify? Kind regards

At least add a few more months, just as a precaution.

The logic becomes sound once you take into account everything else I wrote before that sentence, and I sincerely hope that everyone reads posts for the purpose of understanding the gist of them, not for the sake of rebuking every line written. The gender is, and I reiterate, a more or less unimportant piece of information around here, here being the forums dedicated to AirVPN products and everything related to them or the wider area of topics related to VPNs. Plus, as written, this piece of info is invisible to the whole community when set. When the purpose of that info is for the user to be referred to correctly, it doesn't help that user here if it's not seen by anyone. So the choice of whether I set it to "Non-binary" or "Not telling" doesn't matter in the context of these forums if the outcome – no one will see it, anyway – is the same. If we talked about a context outside of the current environment, then yes, of course, having more choices is a valid request. But as the software does not provide that option, Not telling seems to be the closest thing to Non-binary. The other choices are binary, after all.

The gender is a more or less unnecessary piece of information around here. Even if you wanted to provide your pronouns, no one would be able to see this preference when replying in a thread. It's not in the quick info dialog when hovering over the poster's name, and by default profiles are inaccessable to all, so no one would be able to see that info in the first place. You could use the Location field to enter those, it's visible directly under your name, but that'd be displayed with a Location label, see the example on the left under my name (and compare it with how I formatted it in the profile). You must also be advised that this version on IP.Board comes from a different internet era altogether (~10 years ago, I believe), one that didn't have the custom of providing pronouns, or having a variety of genders to identify as. So, you may treat Not telling simply as virtually equivalent to non-binary.

On the Download page, click the Other versions button and select 2.21.8.

I also extended my subscription for one year. Easily the best VPN on the market and no other competitor gets even close. Thanks AirVPN staff!

I think you will find after some more experimentation that, if you type in www.reddit.com, the HTTP code you get back is actually 302, a redirect to HTTPS. Which is correct and corresponds with best practices for HTTPS redirects. Typing in https://www.reddit.com instead will yield the correct result. It doesn't help that the route checker deems those redirects as errors, too, and so colors the cell's background red, so I agree in so far as one of two things could happen to remedy this: The background color should be yellow to indicate a redirect which doesn't have to be a block. But that tool is actually there to tell you "yep, works" or "nope, not from here" at a glance. Yellow as in "meh, maybe, check yourself" is beyond unhelpful. If a web server returns a 301 or 302, follow the Location header once to cater to the common case of a HTTPS redirect and print the result for that new URL. But this could produce false positive results: If a website viewed from the server returns a 302 to a webpage basically saying "sorry, you've been blocked", that webpage will of course have a green 200 return code. What a sweet dream. Check out OneDrive/Outlook, Netflix, Hulu, BBC iPlayer, etc. and maybe all those sites sitting behind a Sucuri WAF. What you could do is to keep track of the Blocked websites warning forum and update your list with every new thread and post. It'd be a help, but would demand work from you alone, continuously even. But if effective, such as thread could be pinned in this forum for visibility and be a boon for the community, I'm sure.

Thank you 🙏

I've started using NixOS a few weeks ago and I've been trying to get Linux Suite working on it lately. I have zero experience writing Nix derivations so I basically tried to replicate the install.sh script from the tarball. Note that I've been trying to get it working for my use case (x86_64 only). What I got working: Binaries / resource files copied to the Nix Store and binaries somewhat working i.e. I can run ❯ goldcrest --version Used nix-ld for this: programs.nix-ld = { enable = true; libraries = with pkgs; [ dbus openssl libgcc ]; }; Since bluetit seems to expect resource files to be present in /etc/airvpn, I used environment.etc to copy them from the Nix store. Regarding D-Bus config files, since /etc/dbus-1 directory already exists and is a symlink to /etc/static/dbus-1, I wasn't able to write in this directory. I had to use system.activationScripts to copy the two D-Bus config files in one of the possible paths (see get_dbus_path() function in the install script). airvpn group created (I don't need airvpn user) bluetit.service / bluetit-suspend.service / bluetit-resume.service units written with systemd.services Nix option Custom bluetit.rc with my own settings and sensitive values set as agenix secrets. Zsh completions (only added Zsh because that's my interactive shell, I don't use Bash) Ideally of course, a proper Nix derivation would "Nixify" everything: airvpn user/group creation, all bluetit.rc options, whether the systemd units should be enabled or not, shell completions... but that's far beyond my abilities. What I couldn't get working: cuckoo binary ownership and permissions The installer script has: chown root:airvpn $BIN_DIR/cuckoo chmod u+s $BIN_DIR/cuckoo but I couldn't replicate this. Nix would give "permission denied" every time when rebuilding the system. root:airvpn ownership wouldn't work because the airvpn group wasn't created yet. I tried setting a gid to the airvpn group and use root:1000 instead but that didn't make any difference. Likewise, chmod u+s would result in "permission denied" error. I guess we're just not supposed to change files ownership in the Nix Store. Not sure why the chmod u+s wouldn't work though, considering the other chmod commands work. Maybe it's not that big of a deal, I don't know. any VPN connection This is obviously the biggest issue, making the program completely useless for now. Despite having binaries apparently working, I couldn't connect to any AirVPN server. First, I got DNSManagerException: systemctl: command not found: ❯ journalctl -b -u bluetit.service systemd[1]: Starting AirVPN Bluetit Daemon... bluetit[21208]: Starting Bluetit - AirVPN WireGuard/OpenVPN3 Service 2.0.0 - 22 July 2025 bluetit[21208]: OpenVPN core 3.12 AirVPN (20250606) linux x86_64 64-bit bluetit[21208]: Copyright (C) 2012- OpenVPN Inc. All rights reserved. bluetit[21208]: SSL Library: OpenSSL 3.4.2 1 Jul 2025 bluetit[21208]: AirVPN WireGuard Client 2.0.0 Linux x86_64 64-bit bluetit[21242]: Bluetit daemon started with PID 21242 bluetit[21242]: Reading run control directives from file /etc/airvpn/bluetit.rc bluetit[21242]: Network check mode is airvpn bluetit[21242]: Creating AirVPN Boot server list systemd[1]: Started AirVPN Bluetit Daemon. bluetit[21242]: Added server http://63.33.78.166 bluetit[21242]: Added server http://54.93.175.114 bluetit[21242]: Added server http://82.196.3.205 bluetit[21242]: Added server http://63.33.116.50 bluetit[21242]: Added server http://[2a03:b0c0:0:1010::9b:c001] bluetit[21242]: Added server http://bootme.org bluetit[21242]: Boot server http://bootme.org resolved into IPv4 82.196.3.205/32 IPv6 2a03:b0c0:0:1010::9b:c001/128 bluetit[21242]: AirVPN Boot server list successfully created. Added 6 servers. bluetit[21242]: AirVPN connectivity attempt 1 in progress bluetit[21242]: Successfully connected to AirVPN server <redacted> bluetit[21242]: External network is reachable via IPv4 gateway <redacted> through interface <redacted> bluetit[21242]: Successfully connected to D-Bus bluetit[21242]: DNSManagerException: systemctl: command not found bluetit[21242]: Sending event 'event_end_of_session' bluetit[21242]: Bluetit successfully terminated systemd[1]: bluetit.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE systemd[1]: bluetit.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. systemd[1]: bluetit.service: Consumed 37ms CPU time, 7.3M memory peak, 12.4M read from disk, 120K written to disk, 60B incoming IP traffic, 164B outgoing IP traffic. I first tried adding Environment = "PATH=/run/current-system/sw/bin:$PATH"; to systemd.services.bluetit.serviceConfig, but that didn't make any difference. Creating a symlink allowed to get rid of the error: ❯ sudo ln -s /run/current-system/sw/bin/systemctl /bin/systemctl But still: With networklockpersist on: "NetFilterException: No usable firewall found in this system" With networklockpersist iptables: "NetFilterException: iptables or iptables legacy is not available in this system" With networklockpersist nftables: "NetFilterException: nftables is not available in this system" Creating symlinks also allowed to get rid of the errors: ❯ sudo ln -s /run/current-system/sw/bin/iptables /bin/iptables ❯ sudo ln -s /run/current-system/sw/bin/iptables-save /bin/iptables-save ❯ sudo ln -s /run/current-system/sw/bin/iptables-restore /bin/iptables-restore ❯ sudo ln -s /run/current-system/sw/bin/ip6tables /bin/ip6tables ❯ sudo ln -s /run/current-system/sw/bin/ip6tables-restore /bin/ip6tables-restore ❯ sudo ln -s /run/current-system/sw/bin/ip6tables-save /bin/ip6tables-save ❯ sudo ln -s /run/current-system/sw/bin/nft /bin/nft Then, more errors. With networklockpersist iptables: Goldcrest - AirVPN Bluetit Client 2.0.0 - 22 July 2025 Reading run control directives from file /root/.config/goldcrest.rc Bluetit - AirVPN WireGuard/OpenVPN3 Service 2.0.0 - 22 July 2025 OpenVPN core 3.12 AirVPN (20250606) linux x86_64 64-bit Copyright (C) 2012- OpenVPN Inc. All rights reserved. OpenSSL 3.4.2 1 Jul 2025 AirVPN WireGuard Client 2.0.0 Linux x86_64 64-bit Successfully restored DNS and network filter settings WARNING: Backup copy of resolv.conf not found. DNS settings do not need to be restored. Scanning for system DNS addresses Found system IPv4 DNS <redacted> Found 1 system DNS address Command not found Command not found WARNING: Backup copy of network filter not found. Network settings do not need to be restored. Network filter and lock are using /bin/iptables ERROR: system 'modules.builtin' does not exist. ERROR: system 'modules.builtin' does not exist. ERROR: system 'modules.builtin' does not exist. ERROR: system 'modules.builtin' does not exist. ERROR: system 'modules.builtin' does not exist. ERROR: system 'modules.builtin' does not exist. ERROR: system 'modules.builtin' does not exist. ERROR: system 'modules.builtin' does not exist. ERROR: system 'modules.builtin' does not exist. ERROR: system 'modules.builtin' does not exist. Network filter successfully initialized Private network is allowed to pass the network filter Ping output is allowed to pass the network filter IPv6 NDP is allowed to pass the network filter Network Lock Error: Unknown error 256 (stderr: iptables-restore: line 1 failed) Bluetit session terminated With networklockpersist nftables: Goldcrest - AirVPN Bluetit Client 2.0.0 - 22 July 2025 Reading run control directives from file /root/.config/goldcrest.rc Bluetit - AirVPN WireGuard/OpenVPN3 Service 2.0.0 - 22 July 2025 OpenVPN core 3.12 AirVPN (20250606) linux x86_64 64-bit Copyright (C) 2012- OpenVPN Inc. All rights reserved. OpenSSL 3.4.2 1 Jul 2025 AirVPN WireGuard Client 2.0.0 Linux x86_64 64-bit Successfully restored DNS and network filter settings WARNING: Backup copy of resolv.conf not found. DNS settings do not need to be restored. Scanning for system DNS addresses Found system IPv4 DNS <redacted> Found 1 system DNS address Network filter successfully restored Network filter and lock are using nftables ERROR: system 'modules.builtin' does not exist. Network filter successfully initialized Private network is allowed to pass the network filter Ping output is allowed to pass the network filter IPv6 NDP is allowed to pass the network filter Persistent network filter and lock successfully enabled. Private network is allowed. Bluetit session terminated With networklockpersist off (default): bluetit[8754]: Starting WireGuard boot connection bluetit[8754]: ERROR: system 'modules.builtin' does not exist. bluetit[8754]: ERROR: cannot load wireguard system module bluetit[8754]: Cannot load wireguard system module bluetit[8754]: Logging out AirVPN user 183aTr78f9o bluetit[8754]: AirVPN Manifest successfully retrieved from server bluetit[8754]: AirVPN Manifest update interval is now set to 30 minutes bluetit[8754]: Session network filter and lock are now disabled bluetit[8754]: Sending event 'event_end_of_session' At this point, I don't know what do try next. The main issue is likely that due to NixOS not following FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard), bluetit can't find anything (binaries, kernel modules...) to work. Since Nixpkgs no longer accepts package requests, I thought I'd just ask here if someone could help or even write a proper derivation from scratch. My (terrible/sadly broken) derivation: { config, lib, pkgs, ... }: let version = "2.0.0"; airvpn-linux-suite = pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation { pname = "airvpn-linux-suite"; inherit version; src = pkgs.fetchurl { url = "https://eddie.website/repository/AirVPN-Suite/${version}/AirVPN-Suite-x86_64-${version}.tar.gz"; # sha256 = lib.fakeSha256; sha256 = "Jt83PPHwBv/GraubQV4I7Shn+UwMvkVW2q9VIAbYDw0="; }; installPhase = '' mkdir -p $out/sbin mkdir -p $out/bin mkdir -m=750 -p $out/etc/airvpn mkdir -p $out/etc/dbus-1/system.d mkdir -p $out/etc/systemd/system mkdir -p $out/share/zsh/site-functions cp --preserve=mode bin/bluetit $out/sbin/ for f in "goldcrest" "hummingbird" "cuckoo" "airsu"; do cp --preserve=mode bin/$f $out/bin done for f in "airvpn-manifest.xml" "connection_priority.txt" "connection_sequence.csv" \ "country_continent.csv" "country_names.csv" \ "continent_names.csv" "nsswitch.conf"; do cp etc/airvpn/$f $out/etc/airvpn/ done chmod 660 $out/etc/airvpn/* cp etc/dbus-1/system.d/* $out/etc/dbus-1/system.d/ chmod 644 $out/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.airvpn.* cp etc/site-functions/* $out/share/zsh/site-functions/ ''; meta = with lib; { description = "AirVPN free and open source suite based on AirVPN OpenVPN 3 library fork"; homepage = "https://www.airvpn.org/"; license = licenses.gpl3Plus; platforms = [ "x86_64-linux" ]; maintainers = [ maintainers.183aTr78f9o ]; }; }; customBluetitRC = # ini '' # full bluetit.rc here with custom settings ''; in { environment.systemPackages = [ airvpn-linux-suite ]; users.groups.airvpn = { }; systemd.services = { bluetit = { description = "AirVPN Bluetit Daemon"; unitConfig = { After = [ "network-online.target" "firewalld.service" "ufw.service" "dbus-daemon.service" "dbus.socket" ]; Wants = [ "network-online.target" "firewalld.service" "ufw.service" "dbus-daemon.service" "dbus.socket" ]; }; serviceConfig = { Type = "forking"; PIDFile = "/etc/airvpn/bluetit.lock"; ExecStart = "${airvpn-linux-suite}/sbin/bluetit"; Environment = "PATH=/run/current-system/sw/bin:$PATH"; TimeoutStopSec = 90; KillSignal = "SIGTERM"; KillMode = "mixed"; SendSIGKILL = "no"; }; wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ]; }; bluetit-resume = { description = "AirVPN Bluetit Daemon Resume after Suspend, Sleep, Hibernate"; unitConfig = { After = [ "network-online.target" "firewalld.service" "ufw.service" "dbus-daemon.service" "dbus.socket" "suspend.target" "suspend-then-hibernate.target" "hibernate.target" "hybrid-sleep.target" "sleep.target" ]; Wants = [ "network-online.target" "firewalld.service" "ufw.service" "dbus-daemon.service" "dbus.socket" ]; }; serviceConfig = { Type = "forking"; ExecStart = "${pkgs.systemd}/bin/systemctl start bluetit.service"; }; wantedBy = [ "suspend.target" "suspend-then-hibernate.target" "hibernate.target" "hybrid-sleep.target" "sleep.target" ]; }; bluetit-suspend = { description = "AirVPN Bluetit Daemon Suspend, Sleep, Hibernate"; unitConfig = { Before = [ "suspend.target" "suspend-then-hibernate.target" "hibernate.target" "hybrid-sleep.target" "sleep.target" ]; }; serviceConfig = { Type = "forking"; ExecStart = "${pkgs.systemd}/bin/systemctl stop bluetit.service"; }; wantedBy = [ "suspend.target" "suspend-then-hibernate.target" "hibernate.target" "hybrid-sleep.target" "sleep.target" ]; }; }; environment.etc = { "airvpn/airvpn-manifest.xml" = { source = "${airvpn-linux-suite}/etc/airvpn/airvpn-manifest.xml"; mode = "0660"; }; "airvpn/bluetit.rc" = { text = customBluetitRC; mode = "0660"; }; "airvpn/connection_priority.txt" = { source = "${airvpn-linux-suite}/etc/airvpn/connection_priority.txt"; mode = "0660"; }; "airvpn/connection_sequence.csv" = { source = "${airvpn-linux-suite}/etc/airvpn/connection_sequence.csv"; mode = "0660"; }; "airvpn/country_continent.csv" = { source = "${airvpn-linux-suite}/etc/airvpn/country_continent.csv"; mode = "0660"; }; "airvpn/country_names.csv" = { source = "${airvpn-linux-suite}/etc/airvpn/country_names.csv"; mode = " 0660"; }; "airvpn/continent_names.csv" = { source = "${airvpn-linux-suite}/etc/airvpn/continent_names.csv"; mode = "0660"; }; "airvpn/nsswitch.conf" = { source = "${airvpn-linux-suite}/etc/airvpn/nsswitch.conf"; mode = "0660"; }; }; system.activationScripts."airvpn-dbus-conf" = # sh '' destPath="/usr/local/etc/dbus-1/system.d" mkdir -m=755 -p "$destPath" cp "${airvpn-linux-suite}/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.airvpn.client.conf" "$destPath/" chmod 644 "$destPath/org.airvpn.client.conf" cp "${airvpn-linux-suite}/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.airvpn.server.conf" "$destPath/" chmod 644 "$destPath/org.airvpn.server.conf" systemctl reload dbus 2>/dev/null || true ''; }

Use 'Policy table' not Object networking. Then create a NAT rule. I would prefer that they catch up with the competition on the basics (Like supporting IPv6 in VPNs), rather than reinventing yet another way to manage firewall rules 😕

Hello! We're very glad to announce that AirVPN Suite 2.0.0 Release is available. Special thanks to the outstanding community beta testers whose continued support in over a year and a half has been invaluable and decisive to find out and address several, insidious bugs. AirVPN Suite 2.0.0 introduces AirVPN's exclusive per app traffic splitting system, bug fixes, revised code, WireGuard support, and the latest OpenVPN3-AirVPN 3.12 library. Please see the respective changelogs for a complete list of changes for each component of the suite. The 2.0.0 Suite includes: Bluetit: lightweight, ultra-fast D-Bus controlled system daemon providing full connectivity and integration to AirVPN servers, or generic OpenVPN and WireGuard servers. Bluetit can also enforce Network Lock and/or connect the system to AirVPN during the bootstrap Goldcrest: Bluetit client, allowing full integration with AirVPN servers, users, keys, profiles as well as generic OpenVPN and WireGuard servers Hummingbird: lightweight and standalone binary for generic OpenVPN and WireGuard server connections Cuckoo: traffic split manager, granting full access and functionality to AirVPN's traffic split infrastructure airsu: a "run and forget" tool to automatically set and enable the user environment for the X.Org or Wayland based ecosystem without any user input WireGuard support WireGuard support is now available in Bluetit and Hummingbird. OpenVPN or WireGuard selection is controlled by Bluetit run control file option airvpntype or by Goldcrest option -f (short for --air-vpn-type). Possible values: openvpn, wireguard. New 2.0.0 default: wireguard. Bluetit run control file (/etc/airvpn/bluetit.rc) option: airvpntype: (string) VPN type to be used for AirVPN connections. Possible values: wireguard, openvpn. Default: wireguard Goldcrest option: --air-vpn-type, -f : VPN type for AirVPN connection <wireguard|openvpn> Suspend and resume services for systemd based systems For your comfort, the installation script can create suspend and resume services in systemd based systems, according to your preferences. allowing a more proper management of VPN connections when the system is suspended and resumed. The network connection detection code has also been rewritten to provide more appropriate behavior. Asynchronous mode A new asynchronous mode (off by default) is supported by Bluetit and Goldcrest, allowing asynchronous connections. Network Lock can be used accordingly in asynchronous connections. Please consult the readme.md file included in every tarball for more information and details. Word completion on bash and zsh Auto completion is now available by pressing the TAB key when entering any Goldcrest or Hummingbird option and filename on a bash or zsh interpreter. Auto completion files are installed automatically by the installation script. AirVPN's VPN traffic splitting AirVPN Suite version 2.0.0 introduces traffic splitting by using a dedicated network namespace. The VPN traffic is carried out in the default (main) namespace, ensuring all system data and traffic to be encrypted into the VPN tunnel by default. No clear and unencrypted data are allowed to pass through the default namespace. Any non-tunneled network traffic must be explicitly requested by an authorized user with the right to run cuckoo, the AirVPN traffic split manager tool. AirVPN's traffic splitting is managed by Bluetit and configured through run control directives. The system has been created in order to minimize any tedious or extensive configuration, even to the minimal point of telling Bluetit to enable traffic splitting with no other setting. In order to enable and control AirVPN's traffic splitting, the below new run control directives for /etc/airvpn/bluetit.rc have been implemented: allowtrafficsplitting: (on/off) enable or disable traffic splitting. Default: off trafficsplitnamespace: (string) name of Linux network namespace dedicated to traffic splitting. Default: aircuckoo trafficsplitinterface: (string) name of the physical network interface to be used for traffic splitting. All the unencrypted and out of the tunnel data will pass through the specified network device/interface. In case this directive is not used and unspecified, Bluetit will automatically use the main network interface of the system and connected to the default gateway. Default: unspecified trafficsplitnamespaceinterface: (string) name of the virtual network interface to be associated to the Linux network namespace dedicated to traffic splitting. Default: ckveth0 trafficsplitipv4: (IPv4 address|auto) IPv4 address of the virtual network interface used for traffic splitting. In case it is set to 'auto', Bluetit will try to automatically assign an unused IPv4 address belonging to the system's host sub-network (/24) Default: auto trafficsplitipv6: (IPv6 address|auto) IPv6 address of the virtual network interface used for traffic splitting. In case it is set to 'auto', Bluetit will try to automatically assign an unused IPv6 address belonging to the system's host sub-network (/64) Default: auto trafficsplitfirewall: (on/off) enable or disable the firewall in Linux network namespace dedicated to traffic splitting. The firewall is set up with a minimal rule set for a very basic security model. Default: off AirVPN's traffic splitting is designed in order to minimize any further configuration from the system administrator. To actually enable traffic splitting, it is just needed to set "allowtrafficsplitting" directive to "on" and Bluetit will configure the traffic split namespace with the default options as explained above. When needed, the system administrator can finely tune the traffic splitting service by using the above directives. Power and limitations The adopted solution offers a remarkable security bonus in terms of isolation. For example, it gets rid of the dangerous DNS "leaks in" typical of cgroups based traffic splitting solutions. However, the dedicated namespace needs an exclusive IP address. If the system is behind a NAT (connected to a home router for example) this is not a problem, but if the system is not behind any NAT, i.e. it is assigned directly a public IP address, you will need another public IP address for the network namespace dedicated to traffic splitting. You will need to manually set the other public IP address on the trafficsplitipv4 or trafficsplitipv6 directive as the guessing abilities of Bluetit may work only within a private subnet. Please keep this limitation in mind especially if you want to run the Suite with per app traffic splitting on a dedicated or virtual server in some datacenter, as they are most of the times NOT behind any NAT. Introducing Cuckoo, the AirVPN traffic splitting manager tool To generate out of the tunnel traffic, any application software must be run inside the "traffic split" namespace by using the dedicated traffic split tool cuckoo which can be run by users belonging to the airvpn group only. It cannot be used by the superuser. The usage is documented in the manual and on the inline help. The traffic split namespace uses its own routing, network channels and system DNS. It will not interfere or communicate in any way with the default namespace using its own encrypted tunnel. Programs started with cuckoo are regular Linux processes and, as such, can be managed (stopped, interrupted, paused, terminated and killed) by using the usual process control tools. The programs started by cuckoo are assigned to the user who started cuckoo. As a final note, in order to work properly, the following permissions must be granted to cuckoo and they are always checked at each run. Owner: root Group: airvpn Permissions: -rwsr-xr-x (owner can read, write, execute and setuid; group can read and execute, others can read and execute) Special note for snap packages users Snap is a controversial, locking-in package management system developed by Canonical and praised by Microsoft. It packages applications as snaps, which are self-contained units that include all necessary dependencies and run in a sandboxed environment in its default namespace. Therefore, "snap" applications will bypass the order by the system via Cuckoo to have an application running in one specific namespace created for reverse traffic splitting. As a result, snap applications will jettison the Suite's reverse traffic splitting feature. Currently, you must avoid snap packages of those applications whose traffic must flow outside the VPN tunnel. The issue is particularly relevant ever since Ubuntu migrated certain packages exclusively to Snap, such as Chromium and Firefox. At the moment it is still possible to eradicate snap from various distributions, including Ubuntu, quickly. Special note for firewalld users Please read here, it's very important: https://airvpn.org/forums/topic/70164-linux-network-lock-and-firewalld/ AirVPN Switch User Tool Airsu Running an application in a graphical environment requires a user having a local environment properly set, in particular variables and access to specific sockets or cookies. They are usually set at the moment of graphical login, while they may not be properly set in case a user logged in by using the system tool su. In this specific case the user will not probably be allowed to access the graphical environment, so any GUI application will not start. AirVPN’s airsu is used for this specific purpose and configures the user environment to the current X.Org (X11) or Wayland based manager, thus allowing access to GUI applications when run through cuckoo. Note on GUI software and Web Browsers Complete compatibility with both X11 and Wayland based environments has been implemented. Because of the specific Linux architecture and namespaces, some applications may need to specify the graphical environment in order to start and use the currently selected window manager on an X.Org (X11) or Wayland based habitat. Cuckoo can automatically do this by “injecting” predefined options to some preset applications, in particular those based on the chromium engines, most of them being web browsers. To see the list of predefined applications, please start cuckoo with --list-preset-apps option. When running an application with cuckoo, the user should make sure to actually start a new instance. This is usually granted by starting an application from the command line (such as running it with cuckoo). By starting an application from the desktop environment this may not happen. Download AirVPN Suite 2.0.0 The Suite is available in various flavors: ARM 64 bit, ARM 64 bit legacy, ARM 32 bit, ARM 32 bit legacy, x86-64 and x86-64 legacy. Download page: https://airvpn.org/linux/suite/ Changelog and source code Changelog for each component is available inside each package and on GitLab. Source code is available on GitLab: https://gitlab.com/AirVPN/AirVPN-Suite Kind regards and datalove AirVPN Staff

Hello! You could split the traffic of the application you run to access CS2 or Steam (a browser and/or a dedicated game client, we don't know). All the traffic of the system would continue flowing into the VPN tunnel except the specific Steam related applications traffic. While no trivial solution is available for macOS at the moment (you could consider virtualization), on Linux you can achieve app traffic splitting with the AirVPN Suite 2, on Windows with WireSock, on Android with Eddie Android edition. Kind regards

I'd like to add a third vote for a Greek server (though I of course understand 3 votes in 6 years don't amount to much 🙂). One use case is media, but a second (arguably more important) one is that Greek government websites (basically anything under *.gov.gr), or rather the Akamai CDN they use, seem to implement some rate limiting that makes them basically unusable from (at least some) foreign IPs (but that's across several years and different ISPs). Currently I have to resort to occasionally paying a separate VPN provider for both of these use cases, which as a loyal Air customer of nearly a decade now I would much prefer not to have to do. A rerouting server as mentioned above could perhaps be suitable for both of these cases, though I'm not sure what that would entail exactly.

According to this definition there is no censorship at all anywhere enforced by governments, not in North Korea, not in France, not in China... Please note that your definition is pure fantasy, if not insulting. Censorship is exactly suppression of speech, public communication, or other information subversive of the "common good", or against a given narrative, by law or other means of enforcement. The fact that censorship is enforced by law or by a government body does not make it less censorship. Furthermore, historically censorship was an exclusive matter of some central authority (the first well documented case is maybe the censorship rules to preserve the Athenian youth, infringed by Socrates, for which he was put to death, although the etymology comes from the Roman Office of Censor which had the duty to regulate on citizens' moral practices) and today censorship by governments is predominant. Even In modern times censorship through laws has been and is predominant and pervasive according to Britannica and many academic researches. Then you can discuss ad nauseam whether censorship by law is "right" or "wrong", whether France's censorship is "better" than China's censorship, but you can't change the definition of censorship, otherwise this discussion will become delirious. Kind regards

Hi, yeah no worries since I am only going to use one connection I can still use this port or I will just request another port for a different device? Anyhow this is the fixed config... I was stupid reading forum entries on how to set it up when it was all correctly stated in the readme.... : version: "3" services: gluetun: image: qmcgaw/gluetun cap_add: - NET_ADMIN networks: mvl-200: ipv4_address: 10.60.1.5 ports: - 41870:41870 - 41870:41870/udp - 80:80 environment: - VPN_SERVICE_PROVIDER=airvpn - VPN_TYPE=wireguard - WIREGUARD_PRIVATE_KEY=xxxxxxxxxxxx - WIREGUARD_PRESHARED_KEY=xxxxxxxxxxxx - WIREGUARD_ADDRESSES=xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - SERVER_COUNTRIES=Netherlands - FIREWALL_VPN_INPUT_PORTS=xxxxxxxxxxxx volumes: - /media/glueton:/gluetun maybe somebody as dumb as me googles this and it helps^^

Hello! Please check your setup against the following guide: https://airvpn.org/faq/p2p/ On top of that, we have noticed a malfunction in some qBittorrent version (for example 4.5.5) in FreeBSD and Linux related to binding. If you set Tools > Preferences > Advanced > Optional IP addresses to bind to into All addresses, qBittorrent will reply only to IPv6 packets. If that's your case too, set that combo box to All IPv4 addresses. For additional safety you can also set the Network interface combo box (available in the same advanced menu) to your VPN interface. Always run qBittorrent only after a VPN connection has been successfully established. Kind regards

Hello ! Introduction Welcome To AirVPN! This is a guide meant to help new people. Whether you're new to VPNs in general or just new to AirVPN. I've tried to keep it fairly short, by using bullet points & spoiler tags. This hopefully also makes it more readable and less scary. I think AirVPN is a FANTASTIC VPN and while I don't own or have any stake in AirVPN myself, I'm a huge supporter of it. However, it can be quite scary and confusing to use when you first get started, so hopefully my little guide willl help you! This guide also includes links to resources provided by Air and other users, but I don't mean to take credit for these things. So please feel free to scroll to the bottom of this guide! Index: Introduction First Questions Getting Started With AirVPN After Downloading The Eddie Client [includes Troubleshooting tips] AirVPN Guides Section [Look here to find guides about: Security/Torrenting/Port-forwarding/Plex/etc.] Other Noteworthy resources Credits Why I made this guide: AirVPN was said to be very technical and thus hard to use. But since it's such a quality VPN, I don't want that to always be the main bad side to this great service. Therefore, this guide is also a response to this problem, so that newcomers can hopefully feel less overwhelmed about the idea of the air to breathe the real Internet. The Air staff clearly put in a lot of work every day and are extremely knowledgeable people, from all that I've seen. It's just that for newcomers, it can be hard and overwhelming finding all the relevant pieces of information and it can easily be too technical, so I hope my little guide will also be useful in that regard. This is also why, I collect other people's guides and put them in this guide, so that they're easier to find. However, Thank you to AirVPN, Staff and the many knowledgeable members of this community who help out people like myself quite a lot, through their contributions to the site everyday :] Feel free to leave feedback on this guide, both good and bad, if you want to, because I'll happily read it ! First Questions Do I have to be really technical to use this VPN stuff? AirVPN is one of the more technical VPNs out there and this is pretty much its only major drawback, when it gets reviewed. However, it offers unmatched attention to security and privacy. Not all reviews are entirely accurate either, sadly. Which the AirVPN Staff haven't hesitated to remark on though. So in short: No. But if you're new to VPNs in general and not a tech-savvy user, you do have to accept that you might be confused in the start. But this forum is here to help :]. Due to all the marketing and sometimes paid reviews, it can be hard to find out which VPN to trust at all. This is without even getting to the technical features. Air tends to somewhat pride itself on not overselling things however and so on the face of it, AirVPN can seem like it's no match for other, apparently bigger VPNs, but AirVPN has a lot to offer if you take a look. Will I become totally anonymous or completely secure? Please be aware that when using AirVPN or any VPN, while signed in to things such as your e-mail or other online accounts, you might get incorrect notices of being hacked. You have not been hacked most likely, it's just that when services see you log in from several different IP addresses, they get suspicious. Simply keep calm and investigate the issue. No, definitely not. But in terms of steps you can take to reach very high levels of privacy and security, this is one of the best steps you can take. Privacy and security are hard things. To achieve even higher levels involves sorting out things like your operating system, browser, various habits and using networks like Tor, in addition to a VPN like this. Security is hard. It's rarely, if ever, just a one-off solution. Often, security is as much a process, as it is about a single good product, like this VPN. However. just because a VPN doesn't do everything, it doesn't mean it's useless. A lot depends on what you're trying to do/achieve and who your "enemies" are. Yet it should be said, that AirVPN is quite extreme about security. For Air, it's "all or nothing" in many ways. AirVPN is so focused about security, that they even fix issues before they're published! However, VPNs and others technologies are becoming more and more important, as new spy laws like the UK Snoopers Charter & US Rule 41 Amendment crop up. Please check the question "What does AirVPN do to make it safe to use and does it log or track people?" further down, for more details. VPNs A & B have features X & Y, how does AirVPN compare? For this, check out the forum made specifically for that. It's often the case that features from other VPNs are either already included in AirVPN, aren't included because they're unsafe or just aren't as good as they sound. For instance, a rival VPN might say "We offer PPTP and many other secure protocols!", while Air doesn't, because Air knows PPTP is unsafe. Or they might say they offer a "multi-hop" VPN, which may or may not be useful, according to AirVPN Staff. Support for the protocol known as IKEv2 is another example of where Air doesn't support something, but has good reasons for not doing so. As a final example, you will sometimes see competitors speak of their super-secret "camouflage", "4Dstealth" or "hidden" protocols or servers. This is just marketing for gullible customers . But such aforementioned marketing can greatly confuse efforts to compare Airs product with the competitors. So if in doubt, ask the competitor who is offering "stealth"-something, what it is. If I use AirVPN, will I be able to use service XYZ with it? Please be aware that when using AirVPN or any VPN, while signed in to things such as your e-mail or other online accounts, you might get incorrect notices of being hacked. You have not been hacked most likely, it's just that when services see you log in from several different IP addresses, they get suspicious. Simply keep calm and investigate the issue. Please also be aware that it is NOT the main purpose of AirVPN to get access to geo-restricted content because it's a losing battle and Air cannot control how companies such as the BBC and Netflix act. Being able to get access to a site, generally depends on which service you want and which country it's in. AirVPN doesn't have servers in every country. In general, you can get access to everything. Although services like BBC iPlayer and Netflix actively try to block VPNs. Even services as normal as payment processors, such as PayPal don't always make things easy. This means it's not always possible for a VPN provider to do anything about it. But we do have forums to discuss and notify AirVPN on, so that AirVPN can try to solve it as best as it can. But before you post in that forum, make sure to Read This First, as it might help you & will make your posts more helpful to others. AirVPN has a very useful tool called the Route Checking tool. It allows you to test access to a website from ALL AirVPN servers. Just put in a full link in the search field and click the search button. Then press F5 or hit the refresh button in your browser. Green results usually mean there's access; red results mean the opposite. This is useful for seeing if it's only you who has a problem or only the server you're on. As well as which servers don't have a problem, so that you can switch to using those ones instead. It's most important that it's green in the "HTTP" column. There's many different HTTP Codes, so here's a list. VPNs generally slow down your connection a little. But AirVPN is so good that it's still possible to play Multiplayer games through it, without your connection slowing down too much, in my own experience. What does AirVPN do to make it safe to use and does it log or track people? AirVPN isn't just safe because it promises to be so in its marketing. Instead, it backs things up with hard technical specifications and high standards, that you can verify yourself. AirVPN is logless and can't be forced to log surreptitiously, fully supports P2P on all servers & as per #5 ignores all DMCA requests. Remotely-forwarded ports aren't logged either. Here's additional things Air does to increase its security and privacy: AirVPNs infrastructure conforms to a high degree of openness & transparency. This helps show that none of Airs locations are fake, but only bare-metal & lets users compare with one another. AirVPNs encryption standards are military grade and so for all intents and purposes unbreakable. It also only uses the most secure VPN protocol too: OpenVPN. No PPTP/SSTP/L2TP/IKEv2. AirVPN doesn't use any third party tracking on its website, such as Google Analytics or Social buttons, because they leak. Instead, it uses open-source analytics Matomo, which is closed loop. AirVPNs website meets the highest SSLabs security standards: A+. AirVPN takes its mission to fight censorship and manipulation of the Internet extremely seriously. This also means being highly willing to help out journalists and human-rights defenders. AirVPN only uses FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) in its Eddie client. Therefore the software running on your system is not a security "blackbox", but can be independently verified. AirVPNs Eddie client supports a wide selection of protocols. Including SSL and SSH. As well as anonymising services such as Tor; so that you can "partition trust" and need not trust AirVPN. AirVPN fully accepts crypto-currencies. Including to the point where it accepts Bitcoin directly. No middlemen. So if done right, you can use AirVPN with Air knowing nothing about you. AirVPN explains how it doesn't need to inspect or monitor traffic in order to check for breaches of ToS. AirVPN is against security through obscurity, including in its client software Eddie and so shows all the information it can; which leads some users to erroneously think there's logging going on. AirVPN has since then expanded on this point. AirVPN uses in-house support technicians and not outsourced third-party technicians and external packages such as Zendesk. So as with #3, it's closed-loop. No leakage. AirVPN has a strict location policy, so that it doesn't just set up servers in a new, potentially unsafe or questionable, location. One which can't supply the performance required, either. AirVPN has its own DNS servers and "killswitch" feature. With Network Lock on, any accidental loss of connection from Airs servers won't leak anything about you; including WebRTC. AirVPN is run by extremely knowledgeable technical people and not just businessmen. So they're easily able to both explain, defend and attack subjects on a purely technical level. AirVPN supports the auditing of some of the crucial security software that underlies different systems and also supports other projects/groups/services such as Tor, Edri and OpenNIC. AirVPN runs this forum, which can seem like a small thing, but it's actually really important, as it allows for the open sharing of knowledge, providing of technical support and mythbusting. AirVPN already acts as a "multi-hop" VPN and takes many other measures to increase security, such as separate entry & exit IPs, Perfect Forward Secrecy and HMAC SHA1. AirVPN has a strong focus on avoiding marketing fluff and overselling. Which means you know exactly what you're getting and don't need to deal with deceptive use of technical details. AirVPN is highly consistent with staying constantly on top of any security issue. AirVPN is based in Italy and is therefore within the EU. This has a range of other benefits too. That's 20+ ways in which Air has extremely high security "by default". All made nice and easy for you to use. If you want more, there's a simple 3 step guide for that. But seriously, there's always more you can do yourself. When will AirVPN add country or server XYZ? AirVPN Staff do not usually tell the community when a new country or server will be added. They simply add them. So it's easy to miss. The Eddie client will automatically show them. AirVPN frequently adds new countries/locations. This can be seen in the announcement forum, so please try to check this and the Eddie client (if you use it) before asking. Thank you. Requests for a specific location or addition to an existing one, are fine. But demands to know when something will happen, are futile, since AirVPN follows a strict location policy. The technical specifications regarding security/encryption for the Air servers that are used, can be found here. Further, those technologies and standards allows Air to pursue its Mission. Please remember that even if a country you want hasn't been added, you may still be able to get access to the web-content of that country, thanks to Airs micro-routing feature. Here's some old posts regarding different locations, so that you may not need to ask. Please note that some, such as Japan as of 2018 & Austria, were already added: Italian Servers? Japan/Korea Servers? [staff Comment] Russian Servers? Danish Servers? Middle-East/North African Servers? Indian Servers? Panama Servers? Australian/New Zealand Servers? Latvian Servers? French & Belgian Servers?[uPDATE: French Servers Momentarily Withdrawn] Austrian Servers? Central/South American Servers? AirVPN now allows 5 connections per account instead of 3, but is it possible to buy more connections? AirVPN has increased the limit from 3 to 5 connections. Thus it's unlikely to be possible to buy more connections at any point. But you can use a modified router if you still need more than 5. If you change your router firmware(software) to something like DD-WRT or Tomato for instance, you can make all devices on your Wi-Fi/Router go through AirVPN. However running a VPN on a router is quite hardwork for most routers. So you either need high-grade commercial ones or computers like the ZBOX Nano, converted into routers. That ZBOX Nano PC would be excellent for a VPN to run on, as the hardware is very good; even more than the commercial routers. Only savvy users should consider this. Who runs AirVPN & moderates the forums? The Staff account is the Official voice of AirVPN. Private messages cannot be sent to them. Clodo & pj are the most visible AirVPN employees. Clodo is the developer of AirVPNs "Eddie" client software, while pj is a co-founder of AirVPN. Community moderators: zhang888, giganerd and LZ1. Note that we are NOT AirVPN employees, have no access to Air infrastructure and do NOT speak for Air in an official way. Instead, zhang888, giganerd and LZ1 are a part of what the Air Staff call the Air "forum Staff". Note that member profiles can't be accessed by others by default, unless you add them as friends or they made their profile public. Air itself is based in Italy and so that's where their staff will be sourced from. What are some of the "Status" page functions for & how do I use AirVPNs "Micro-routing" feature? The first page you see when you go to the Status page, is an overview of Airs servers & service. Useful for seeing if any server is down or very busy, downloads and how many users there are. The Ping Matrix shows the latency between Air servers and if there's any (severe) packet loss somewhere. No packets = no connection. The Top Users page can help you verify if others are still getting good or bad performance, compared to yourself. The Checking Route page is for seeing if Air servers can or can't connect to a website you select. Unlike the Ping Matrix. There's also the special AirVPN "Micro-routing" service. To use it, simply make sure you connect to Airs servers & DNS. (Automatic when you use Airs Eddie client). Without the micro-routing, if you want to watch French TV for example, you would have to connect to a French server. But with micro-routing, you can connect to ANY Air server and still watch French TV, as long as the TV's website is on the "Website support" list. It's possible to make requests to get sites added to these lists. Anyway, this micro-routing is very very useful ! Because it means that EVEN IF Air takes all French servers offline for some reason, you will still be able to access French content! Is it free and if not, why should I pay for it? AirVPN is not free, but you can get a short trial if you ask nicely. The Trial has unlimited data and full speed. But you can only get a refund if you have used less than 5GB. Free services don't offer many of the very nice features which let you get around website/service blocks. But it can be hard to market these features to non-technical people, because they're not always easy to explain. Yet once you try them, you will appreciate them. AirVPN has quality servers & connections, as well as guarantees a certain speed, with no limits. So it's possible to play multiplayer games through it. Free services often have to exploit their users in order to survive. This is normally done by tracking you, possibly undermining your security and selling your data to 3rd parties. If a free service is leaking your data due to poor practices and technology by accident or selling it on purpose, what's the point in using it then? VPN means Virtual Private Network. Even if a free service doesn't exploit you, you still don't have the same level of security or assurances, because how would a free service pay for that? Real security is hard and costly. Would you rather go through 5 bad free services, risking your security and privacy or would you rather take your privacy and security seriously the first time, for a small fee? If you only need a VPN 1 time, then it's probably not worth it to use a paid service. But if you know you'll need it often, it's worth the investment. Air has a very cheap 3 day plan too though. Free services often have many limits. But AirVPN is logless, allows 5 devices per account, allows P2P and other protocols, has no data/bandwidth limits & very high security. So basically, you need to be able to Trust your provider, yet why would a free service be trustworthy? They don't owe you anything. But a paid one at least does - not that all paid services are great either though. Not all services on the web offer the same level of protection either, whether free or not. Many services, paid & unpaid, lie to you about where they have servers. Fake GeoIP addresses. Since AirVPN isn't free, is it possible to buy a Lifetime subscription, as with other VPNs? Does AirVPN hold sales at all? This question has received its own dedicated topic, so please click the link below All sales related questions are answered in this dedicated thread. Getting Started With AirVPN If you run into a problem with Airs software for some reason, then please make sure to check if there's an experimental version of the Eddie client you can download. Experimental versions aren't always available. How do I start using AirVPN? There's 3 simple steps: Create Account Choose a Plan Choose your setup Creating an account: You don't need a valid e-mail address. The site software, called IPB, just needs the field to be filled with something. Remember that password recovery will NOT work without a valid address. If you can, don't use something which uniquely identifies you. So even if you name your account ninja10834, that's still better than something about your real name, location or even interests. With this account, you can also post on the forums. However in the beginning, you won't be able to post on these forums immediately. This is because a moderator has to make sure that whatever you post, is both genuine and from a person. So when you click the "post" button, your own post will NOT show up immediately; so just be patient, when asking a question. After around 5-10 posts being accepted, your account will increase in level and you will be able to post things immediately, without any supervision. There's 2 names associated with your account. The first is your login name, which cannot be changed and can't be seen by others. You would need to make a new account, to change it. The second name is your forum display name. In my case, it's LZ1. This can be changed by you at any time, but only matters in the forum. NOTE: it's your login name you use for logging into the Eddie software, together with your login password. Choose a plan: At this stage, you pick both how you wish to pay and how much. It's possible to pay in currencies known as "cryptocurrencies". These cryptocurrencies, most famously Bitcoin, have a range of benefits when it comes to things like security and privacy, if used correctly. If you want to pay using a cryptocurrency, there's some guidance on what to do, further down, in the guides section. However if you're just starting out, it's fine if you just use your credit card or whatever method which suits you. It's also possible to ask for a short trial. You can also scroll back up to the "First Questions" section and look for the information on Air's sales, if you want to wait for a discount. After paying, you will be a "Premium User" and will be able to see how many days you have left of your subscription, at the top of the screen, when you're logged into your account. Choose your setup: AirVPN provides a mobile version of its Eddie app for Android. An iOS version is NOT available due to Apple's restrictive policies. This stage is pretty straightforward. Just make sure you select the right versions and hit Download. Your OS: Find out which Windows Operating System you're running or which GNU/Linux you're running. Mac users must use either Mavericks or something newer. Your Architecture: Most will be locked into 64-bit here, as 32-bit is outdated. Your Format: Windows users should select "Installer" & MacOS users select "PKG Package Installer". Ubuntu/Linux users pick according to distro; adding a PPA will enable auto-updates of Eddie. Your User Interface: Most people should pick Graphical UI. Unless you want to run some kind of headless install, as some technical users do. Then click the big blue Download button and follow regular installation procedures. Now you will be downloading the AirVPN software. DONE. No further reading is required from here. Just open Eddie and click "Connect to Recommended Server". Unless you need a guide for something or want to know some of the finer details. This software is called a "client". This "client" is called "Eddie", because that's what AirVPN calls it. So when you hear talk of "Eddie", it's referring to the software you downloaded. If you don't want to use Eddie for some reason, there's ways of getting around it. But for new and casual users, it's recommended that you use it. If normal Installer Formats create problems, you can sometimes fix them by using the portable formats. A portable download is also useful if you want to store Eddie on a USB stick. If the latest Stable or Experimental release doesn't work for you, then you can download an earlier version, by clicking the "Other versions" link under the blue download button. How and where do I manage my AirVPN settings? You do that in the Client Area Some of the most important things in this area include: Configuration Generator Ports Referrals Number 1 is where you automatically generate the files that your VPN needs to work (if you don't use the Eddie Client, such as if you use Android), after you tick some boxes. Number 2 allows you to tell the VPN which "ports" or "virtual doors" to open, which can speed up things such as your Bittorent client (qBittorent, uTorrent, Vuze, Transmission, etc.) Even though it looks confusing, the only thing you actually need to change, is putting the right number in the "Local Port" field. So if your torrent program uses port 7634 for instance, then you put 7634 into the "Local Port" field and simply click the green add button. Then a number will automatically be generated and put into the big white box at the top. All done. Number 3 shows you the link you can share with other people. If they buy an AirVPN plan, you get 20% of what they pay. Then you can use this money to pay for your own plan. What if I need help during the process? If you need help from Air, you can easily contact them. If you're wondering why AirVPN doesn't have "Livechat" or might take a little longer to reply than other providers, then this is why. However you can also just come to these forums. If you can't post yet, then you can read the various guides which exist. In the AirVPN program called Eddie, there's a tab called "logs", which lists various information about what's happening. You can copy this and post it on the forums so we can help. But when you post your logs, MAKE SURE you post them inside "spoiler tags". If you don't use spoiler tags, you will annoy and make things more difficult for everyone, including yourself. I've used untold numbers of spoilers in this guide, as an example. What are logs, where are they and how do I use spoiler tags? When the AirVPN Eddie software is running, it creates a list of what it is doing. What's connecting, when, where, if something went wrong and so on. A log of events. So when you ask for help on these forums, we will often ask about your logs, because without logs, we do NOT know what is happening, in your specific situation . If you open the AirVPN "Eddie" client software, you will see a "Logs" tab. On the top right-hand side of the window, the 2nd button from the top, lets you copy your logs quickly. After copying the logs from Eddie, paste them into your posts when you need help. Do so by typing the short codes necessary; which we call using "Spoiler tags". This makes it much more convenient for everyone; just like this question and answer, is inside a spoiler . Please try to do it, thank you! Is there anything in my AirVPN account I should change? Go to the top-right corner of the screen and click your account username. Then click "My Settngs" in the drop-down box. Under "Profile Privacy", you might wish to un-check the checkbox, if you want others to be able to view your profile when clicking your name. Under the "Notification Options" tab and then under the header "Topics & Posts", check the box which lets you auto-follow things you reply to. This is very useful. Because then you'll get a little notification in the top-right corner, every time someone replies to a thread you made. This makes getting help more convenient. It's also good for following what's happening in threads that you post in. Remember to check the boxes on the right-hand side, so that you can choose if you want to be notified via the forum or via E-mail . You can also enable notifications for when people "like" your posts, since that can be quite encouraging! Under "Profile Settings", you might be curious about who visited your profile. So you can make it show the last 5 visitors. Everything else such as signatures, allowing others to add you as a friend and so on, are up to you. Enjoy! Is there an Experimental or Beta version of the AirVPN Eddie Client I can try? If so, where is it and why would I want to try it? Note that whenever you download the Beta/Experimental Client, you'll always receive the latest one. You can check your version number after you open Eddie and go to its "About" page. There aren't always any Experimental clients to download and new clients are continuously released. So keep an eye on the announcement section, for Beta/Experimental clients. Just because a release is called the "Stable" version, it doesn't mean the Beta/Experimental client is "Unstable". However don't be surprised if you run into issues . You can find the Beta versions [if one is available] on the download page of your OS, under "Other versions": If for some reason an Eddie client doesn't work, try downloading a "portable" version on the OS download page, under "Format". Being Beta/Experimental, you might run into some bugs. However I use the latest all the time, with no problems really. For more information on what features are added and bugs taken away, go straight to the changelog The Beta/Experimental client often includes fixes for bugs which the "Stable" version of Eddie has, as well as various extra features and changes. This helps all platforms. For example, for Windows, a prior Beta release used WFP (Windows Filtering Platform), instead of Windows Firewall, which meant it became easier to use 3rd party security software. 3rd party security software, are things such as Comodo firewall or Avast anti-virus. Things which you install yourself. In addition, it also comes with the latest software updates "out-of-the-box", such as the latest TAP drivers and OpenVPN patches, so you don't have to update them yourself. It may enable some things by default, which a current Stable version requires you to change yourself (as explained in the next section of this guide). By using the Beta, you can also help AirVPN by providing feedback, which means Air can then make things even better . Each Beta release has its own feedback thread. Just remember to describe the problem, tell us which system you use (Linux/Windows/MacOS/etc.), the client version (Go to Eddie client "About" page) and some logs in spoilers! : D. Thanks! After Downloading The Eddie Client Please remember to share your Eddie logs and use spoiler tags, when you need help from the community. How to do so, is answered in the previous section, thank you! What's "Network Lock" & should I use it? Please be aware that using Network Lock with Tor can be contradictory to try. It's not currently planned for. Please also note that it's expected that Eddie turns off Network Lock, when Eddie is shut down. Network Lock in AirVPN, is what many other VPN providers normally call a "killswitch". So this is Airs own "killswitch". Network Lock (NL) is a way for the AirVPN software to force all of your computers network communications through the AirVPN service, so that nothing "leaks out" about your identity. For new users, I don't recommend using it too soon. I recommend waiting a few days and just getting comfortable with the day-to-day running of the software and then using it later. With NL on, your internet connection will stop entirely, if you lose connection to the Air servers. This is great for preventing information from leaking & is a feature, not a bug. Why is this important? Well, I don't want to name & shame other providers, but one poster showed that his last provider leaked his real IP address during server changes. This shouldn't happen. But with NL on, this won't happen to you, because changing servers in Eddie will mean disconnecting from server A to go to server B. Thus the connection is stopped first & then resumed. No leaks. But if you want maximum security right away and aren't afraid of small technical issues, you can start using it right away. It can always be changed back.. How can I test that AirVPN is hiding my IP and DNS addresses correctly? Turning on Network Lock in the Eddie client will protect you from WebRTC leaks. You can use AirVPNs own service called ipleak.net. Make sure it's .net and NOT .com. Since ipleak.net is run by Air, it has now received its own sub-forum, where you can ask questions, give suggestions and receive information on any changes made to ipleak. Un-configured, browsers like Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome will "leak" (show) your real IP address through a technology called "WebRTC". To stop WebRTC, scroll to the bottom of the ipleak page and read the very short and simple instructions on how to fix it. It's not overly technical, don't worry. If you torrent files, there's also a torrent on the same website, which you can download in order to test which IP other torrenters would see if you torrented a real file. It's recommended you use Free & Open Source Software(FOSS). With this client, you can make it bind itself to whichever network adapter is using the VPN, which is convenient, so that it only torrents when using a VPN. I can recommend setting ipleak.net as your browser start page, so that every time you start your browser, you'll quickly be able to see if everything is working as intended. Eddie can't connect or is very slow, what can I do? If none of the below solutions work, then it's time to ask the forums or Air support. In BOTH cases, please supply your logs, as detailed before. Otherwise no one can help you. First, please make sure your client is updated to the latest Stable or Beta release. You can see your version number in Eddie>Top Left Corner Menu>About. Head to download page if not. Please try different protocols, at Eddie>Menu>Preferences>Protocols>Uncheck "Automatic">Select a protocol, such as SSL or TCP 443> Save>re-connect to an Air server. Please try connecting to not just different servers, but different countries too. Proximity to your location does not automatically mean better connections; due to routing technicalities. If you're an online gamer, you may benefit from changing the buffer sizes, as mentioned by Staff. If you're a Linux, MacOS or Windows user and webpages aren't loading fully or there's less than optimum speed, you can try the so-called "mssfix". If it's simply a problem with connecting to airvpn.org, then please try the alternate entry: airvpn.info - note that sometimes Air comes under attack from within and so you get an error page. If Eddie, such as in its Logs, says there's problems with route checking, please refer here for a solution. Note: disabling Preferences>DNS>Check Air DNS can be tried at the same time too. If you enabled Network Lock and can't connect to the web without Eddie turned on, then please disable Network Lock or reset your firewall and/or DNS, as shown in the two posts here. If torrenting speeds are slow, then please remember to port-forward and configure your torrent client correctly. For detailed guides on this, please go to the Guides Section below. For some ISPs, such as Virgin Media, please check the Guides Section below, for specific tutorials on how to optimize speeds. In some cases, especially if you run Air directly on your router, it's possible that your computer hardware isn't new enough to handle the encryption quickly enough. For Windows users, updating or downgrading the TAP adapter may work. But this shouldn't be tried as the first thing, as it's often not necessary now. For Windows users, you can try downloading a program called TCPOptimizer. Which other steps can I take to increase my privacy and security? Using AirVPN with Tor is a strong answer, among many other good ones. Here's a further explanation of how AirVPN & Tor work, when together. There's also many other ways to handle privacy and security on multiple fronts. If you're looking for a technical challenge, you can install pfSense on a very powerful computer, to make it act like a router, so that all devices connected to your Wi-Fi will be covered by the VPN. Why not just use an expensive commercial router? Because even expensive ones struggle to handle the protocol known as "OpenVPN" efficiently enough to give excellent performance. You can change the software & hardware you use & support the organisations which try to make things better; such as the FSF/EFF. If you're a geek or networking enthusiast, you can also check out things such as the Turris Omnia router, which offers very powerful hardware & software. AirVPN Guides Section Make sure to check the date of the posts you read below. Hope you like it ! Guides, How To's & Troubleshooting Amazon devices like the Fire Stick, Fire TV Cube and others can be used with Android Eddie without sideloading, according to Staff. Mini-guide by Staff on how to test if your connection is being shaped/throttled [How-To] Use AirVPN with Network Manager on Ubuntu/Mint [How-To] AirVPN via SSL/stunnel on Android 6/7/8 [How-To] fix Virgin Media Connection Drops/Bandwidth Issues Plex Server Guidance (Until someone makes an actual Plex guide) Paying with Bitcoin/Cryptocurrency Guidance. (Until someone makes an actual Cryptocurrency guide) Mini-guides On How To Improve Torrent Speeds Mini-guide On Torrenting With Tixati Client How To Autostart AirVPN As Root With No Password (Linux) Note: security risk & What Staff Says(OSX/MacOS) How To Setup The Eddie Client On Raspberry Pi 3 How To Port-Forward & Use A Torrent Client Guide To pfSense 2.3 For AirVPN Guide to pfSense 2.1 For AirVPN Firefox Extensions Guide Guide To Setting Up VPN For Torrenting On Windows Guide - What To Do When A Site Is Blocked AirVPN Forum Styleguide How To Improve Smartphone Security How To Block Non-VPN Traffic With Windows Firewall How To Connect To AirVPN With Your Fritz!box Router Using AirVPN Through Stunnel On Android Using AirVPN Over Tor Using AirVPN on iOS Check Your TAP Driver Version Explaining The Use Of AirVPN With Tor How To Configure A Synology Device For AirVPN AirVPN & iOS Other Noteworthy Resources Links Please be aware that AirVPN, unlike most, does NOT buy or otherwise use paid-for reviews. An alternative VPN client to Eddie, for Linux. Best VPNs 2016 & AirVPNs results Advanced Networking & Computing How To Break The Internet (Cory Doctorow) (Recommended Watch) Why the OpenVPN protocol that Air uses is good Guide to all things privacy Five Eyes Countries Schneier on Encryption CGP Grey explaining Encryption 10 Myths About VPNs (Ignore the self-advertising) (Recommended Read) The Eternal Value Of Privacy (Recommended Read) Credits Thank you to: AirVPN & Staff for their excellent service and explanations. inradius for his guide on how to use Air with Network Manager on Ubuntu/Mint Omninegro for his pertinent guide on extensions. The always crazily knowledgeable and helpful zhang888, whom I owe a lot to for all his work here. Thanks man. Omniferums excellent guide on securing Windows. pfSense_fans guide on how to use the excellent pfSense firewall software. The always very friendly and helpful giganerd! 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