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I know it might seem a bit weird that a freshly joined member starts a discussion about a competitor. But I want to point out that I have no negative feelings for Perfect Privacy. I have been using them for a while. But there is something going on there that should concern us all. Perfect Privacy is a Germany based VPN provider that has been around for a while. In the past, they have proven more than once that they don't keep any logs and they also had a good reputation with people doing not so nice things. It was a common thing that one third of their servers have been down. But recently, something changed. They stopped updating their Warrant Canary in April. They have a forum too, but their staff entirely ignores this Warrant Canary topic. They refuse to comment on this matter. People told them they will leave if they don't update it. Others suggested they should just remove it if they don't bother updating it. Now if you think about it: If your users complain and even stop using your service, what could be a logical reason not to update the Warrant Canary? How much time would it take to do this? 3 months have passed by. At times, half their servers are down. IKEV2 is not working anymore because of some certificate error. They know about it. They say they are working on it. Even thought roughly half their servers are down or broken, their bandwidth at times see roughly around 10% usage. Unfortunately their forums is mostly in Germany. They had users defending this service for years. But now everyone and really everyone turned against the service and yet they don't seem to care. Can someone here come up with a reason why a service will suddenly stop updating the Warrant Canary and stop fixing things at the same time? For me, this sounds really bad. Talking about Perfect Privacy, they compare to services like Mullvad, AirVPN and IVPN. They have a very good reputation around privacy minded people. For me, this just sounds authorities prevent them from updating or removing it. I simply can not come up with any other explanation. Maybe you can.

Thanks for this update. The speed and connectivity is good.

uTP never changed. Though, there are some tests here and there that say mixed mode (TCP + uTP) can be faster, one just needs to wait a few minutes for uTP to ramp up. I generally still recommend TCP only, though, the difference is marginal. Still UDP, so uTP will behave similarly. Then maybe in your case mixed mode is indeed better. It's not like having this enabled will somehow cause your OS to uninstall. Or manipulate the weather around you and spawn an EF5 tornado on the spot. As written, I usually recommend TCP only because in most cases it just avoids headaches.

Well, it's the worst ISP in China.They shape everything.I suggest you should switch to other ISP such as China Telecom , China Unicom or China Mobile.You may find some cheap plans on the RedNote.But BE CAREFUL. If you switch your ISP to I mentioned above, you could try these servers. China Telecom: NL , DE , US SJC , US LAX China Unicom: nearly all european servers (except IE , NO , SE) (I recommend NL , DE) , US servers in the west coast. China Mobile: JP , SG servers I recommend using OpenVPN (IP Entry 3 & UDP & Port 443),since WireGuard is too easy to be identified (run a Wireshark and you know what I mean). If you have IPv6 connection,you should use them first (unless it's too slow for you).The GFW is less aggressive on IPv6 compared to IPv4

I wouldn't say that, seeing as the project seemingly recommends using its own Linux kernel module, so only specialized projects may pull this out-of-tree module and compile it into their kernels. On a standard router, maybe even if you flash it with specialized ROMs like OpenWrt, you may find Wireguard, but not AmneziaWG. It also seems to need its own forks of standard Wireguard tools which you probably won't find in some distribution families. Maybe Debian at some point, later Ubuntu, and maybe maybe Fedora. On Arch, it might surface on the AUR (or probably is), and on SuSE on the OBS. Red Hat will never adopt it, and if Enterprise is not really interested, you get into a situation where single developers, or a single group of devs, are maintaining something used commercially again. It is not sustainable; you'll never know if it'll still be there in 5 years, or if internal disputes won't force the project to be forked and developed under a different name. But standard Wireguard is developed by well-known researchers, right in the kernel, and garnered enough commercial interest that some consumer networking companies implemented it as a feature. Wireguard is sustainable. AmneziaWG is not. It will never replace standard Wireguard. Besides, the aim of Wireguard is not privacy. And most people around the forums (by topics created in the forums, at least) use the VPN not for the privacy aspect but because they want to torrent. What they're looking for is performance. You don't need AmneziaWG for that. What I'm concerned about is the relationship Wireguard <> AmneziaWG. AmneziaWG would have the obligation to behave in a way a standard Wireguard behaves if server and client differ. I don't know how Wireguard will react if those fixed parameters talked about in the docs are altered. Maybe it's not even a problem, since AmneziaWG clients can connect here normally. At least according to some threads it doesn't seem to be a problem. Dunno. But, no, a replacement is highly unlikely, both generally and specifically on AirVPN.

Hello! We're very glad to inform you that a new 10 Gbit/s full duplex server located in Toronto (Ontario, Canada), is available: Kornephoros. The AirVPN client will show automatically the new server; if you use any other OpenVPN or WireGuard client you can generate all the files to access it through our configuration/certificates/key generator (menu "Client Area"->"Config generator"). The server accepts connections on ports 53, 80, 443, 1194, 2018 UDP and TCP for OpenVPN and ports 1637, 47107 and 51820 UDP for WireGuard. Kornephoros supports 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 . Do not hesitate to contact us for any information or issue. Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Staff

It looks like the graphs on the status page aren't working for this server? edit: ctrl+f5 did the trick, sorry

Hello! After the hardware replacement the server is apparently working very well. Should you find any anomaly do not hesitate to warn us and/or update this thread. Kind regards

Working Well Now. Tried maximizing both upload and download in parallel, and it worked like a charm! Tzulo servers are excellent in my opinion. New York-based Tzulo servers also perform really well.

Hello, I have problems when downloading with AirVPN on Ubuntu 16.04 using OpenVPN client. I have tried switching to other VPN servers, but still have problems with the download speed. The speed often goes to zero and sometimes it goes up, but then quickly drops to zero again. For example it goes up to 1.1Mbit and then slowly goes back to zero. And 1.1Mbit is not even close to my actual network speed. When I disable openvpn the download speed is back to normal. Any ideas why this is happening? Cheers!

I wasn't sure about airvpn at first, but now I'm in love with this service!

Appreciate the update!

Can confirm and will also provide some info that may be useful: 1. Ping is horrible no matter what is done (I usually get ~35 ping to Stockholm, on Ain I get 100-180) 2. Something may be wrong with the MTU of the server, because on 1400 MTU I get 2 mbit/s download, with 1280 I get 450 mbit/s. I have no problem with 1400 MTU on other servers

Hello! Starting from version 2.3, firewalld by default owns exclusively nftables tables generated by itself, thus preventing Eddie, Bluetit and Hummingbird Network Lock related operations. If you want to have Network Lock enabled and firewalld running at the same time, then you must configure firewalld by setting the following option: NftablesTableOwner=no in firewalld's configuration file, usually /etc/firewalld/firewalld.conf . After you have edited the configuration file with any text editor with root privileges, reload firewalld configuration or restart firewalld, and only then (re)start Bluetit, Hummingbird or Eddie. Additional insights: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/firewalld-add-flags-owner-persist-in-fedora-42/148835 https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/rocky-9-5-breaks-netfilter/16551 Kind regards

Airvpn is dope. Had it for a while too. Also need one more content item to edit my username. Thanks, Airvpn.

Airvpn has been pretty nice. Have had it for a few years. Need to make one more content item so I can edit my username. So there's that. Thanks, Airvpn.

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Thank you AirVPN! I love you!!!

Ok, I solved the problem and I think my experience can maybe be of any help to someone else, so I'll share. In my case, simply, it was all due to my firewall rules: analysing the log files and the traffic on the network, I noticed a lot of ICMP (=ping) requests by the process "NT System and Kernel". I allowed it and instantly latencies appeared in AirVPN.

No. Instead, remove the aur repo from your mirrorlist, remove all packages from it and rebuild them live from AUR. Cachy's aur repo is a horror made manifest, I'm hearing nothing but bad things about it.

I see similar behavior, the list of servers very slow to be populated (Fedora 40) with latest stable Eddie version. The pings of nearest, geographically, servers are showing > ~20/30ms, which seems to vary, from down as low as ~8ms with other recent previous Eddie versions.