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Hello! The problem affects those users who run Eddie Desktop edition with OpenVPN and never logged out for more than a year, or use OpenVPN clients with configuration files generated before 2021. Since Eddie Desktop edition re-downloads certificates and keys only when the operator logs in, locally some certificates have expired because we extend their expiration date automatically at least one year in advance (three years normally). Please try the following procedure to quickly resolve the problem: run Eddie on Eddie's main window uncheck "Remember me" log your account out log your account in (you'll need to re-enter your AirVPN credentials) try again a connection Kind regards

Hello! Some customers have contacted the support team asking for a comment on the port shadow attack described in CVE-2021-3773 and brought into the spotlight for the umpteenth time during the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium 2024: https://citizenlab.ca/2024/07/vulnerabilities-in-vpns-paper-presented-at-the-privacy-enhancing-technologies-symposium-2024/ To explain why, unlike many other VPN services, AirVPN is not vulnerable to various attacks under the generic port shadow umbrella, please download the new paper and read below while watching table 2 on page 121: in our infrastructure public entry-IP addresses and public exit-IP addresses are not the same (M6). This is an absolute protection against ATIP, connection inference, and port forwarding overwrite and also makes port scan impossible (another reason for which port scan is impossible is given by additional isolation, see the end of the message) per-host connection limit is enforced (M3) making eviction re-route extremely difficult if not impossible static private IP address is implemented (M2) with WireGuard (it can be changed by explicit key renewal user's action) and highly likely with OpenVPN as long as the user connects to the same server with the same key, another (redundant) protection against port scan In our infrastructure additional protections are in place. We prefer not to disclose them all at the moment, we will just mention the block of any communication between nodes in the same virtual network either through private or public addresses. That's why, unlike any corporate VPN with shared resources, you can't contact any service inside the VPN (except the DNS), not even your own, from a machine connected to the same VPN in our infrastructure. Decapsulation as described on the paper is doomed to fail for this isolation/compartmentalization and this is also another reason for which port scans are not possible. TL;DR AirVPN infrastructure, according to the current state of the art in remediation and mitigation by security researchers as well as paper authors, is not vulnerable to the attacks described under the port shadow umbrella in this new paper. Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Staff

Hello! Today we're starting AirVPN 14th Birthday celebrations with big discounts on longer term plans. From a two servers service located in a single country providing a handful of Mbit/s, the baby has grown up to a wide infrastructure in 23 countries on four continents! AirVPN is now one of the only three major consumers' VPNs which are still independent, i.e. not owned by big corporations with multiple fields interests, interfering in editorial publications or intersecting with products or services in conflict with privacy protection. Ever since we celebrated the past 13th birthday, AirVPN focused on a comprehensive infrastructure enhancement consisting of: line and server expansion to accommodate the significant customer growth. The infrastructure is now capable of delivering up to 694,000 Mbit/s CPU and network interface upgrades on all four continents where we operate in order to further stabilise and consolidate actual bandwidth availability thorough rewrite of remote inbound port forwarding logic to avert impending port exhaustion. The new implementation will be unveiled soon far reaching improvements to the "behind the scenes" infrastructure (backend servers) through hardware upgrades and targeted software optimisation On the software side, all AirVPN applications and libraries are still free and open source software released under GPLv3. The development of traffic splitting features on an application basis, already available in AirVPN Eddie Android and Android TV edition, has been implemented on the AirVPN Suite for Linux. The OpenVPN3-AirVPN library has undergone a remarkable round of bug fixes and improvements, while the WireGuard library is now fully supported by the Suite. If you're already our customer and you wish to stay aboard for a longer period, any additional subscription will be added on top of already existing subscriptions and you will not lose any day. Check the promotional prices here: https://airvpn.org/buy Promotion will end on June the 12th, 2024 (UTC). Kind regards and datalove AirVPN Staff 

Thank you so much for your touching words and stellar feedback. And for your commitment in so many years. However, were you really under the illusion that you could escape so easily? Kind regards

Hello! We're very glad to inform you that a new 10 Gbit/s full duplex server located in Frankfurt, Germany, is available: Ashlesha. 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. Ashlesha 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

Hello! We're very glad to inform you that four new 10 Gbit/s full duplex servers located in New York City are available: Muliphein, Paikauhale, Terebellum, Unukalhai. They have replaced Haedus, Iklil and Lich with more powerful hardware and higher overall bandwidth. 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. The servers 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 by clicking the names of the servers. Do not hesitate to contact us for any information or issue. Kind regards and datalove AirVPN Team

Currently in Russia, I can confirm that OpenVPN UDP without any extra config (on any port) works on some US, NL and LV servers on mobile networks (MegaFon, MTS). On household connections, regular OpenVPN does not seem to work at all, but regular WireGuard sometimes does. When it doesn't work, the connection handshake usually succeeds, but no traffic passes. But what I wanted to share is that I've had near 100% success (on both household and mobile connections) using the AmneziaWG client with many (most?) AirVPN servers. This is a client that introduces modified handshake parameters intended to fool DPI, while remaining compatible with the vanilla WireGuard server implementation, and it's available for all platforms (you can always compile from source, but at the time of writing there are binaries available at least for Windows, iOS and Mac OS and Android. Linux kernel modules and binaries are also available on Github). Note: there is also an "AmneziaVPN" GUI client but I prefer to use the bare protocol implementation instead. These additional parameters are needed in the WireGuard config file generated by the Config Generator (check the Amnezia documentation for a detailed explanation), and have been verified to work: [Interface] Jc = 3 Jmin = 40 Jmax = 70 S1 = 0 S2 = 0 H1 = 1 H2 = 2 H3 = 3 H4 = 4

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! NaDre for his excellent torrenting guide. neolefort for his Synology guide. sheivoko's guide on using AirVPN through stunnel on Android bigbrosbitch for starting a guide on mobile security Zensen for his guide on how to autostart Eddie on Linux with Root sagarbehere for his nice guide on how to set up Eddie on a Raspberry Pi 3 rainmakerraw for his mini-guides on improving torrent speeds and how to torrent. lewisisonfire for his guide to fixing out Virgina Media-related issues and with nice pictures too. Khariz, giganerd and ~Daniel~ for their helpful posts. I hope the guide was of use! If you find any inaccuracies, feel free to tell me. I worked hours on this tiny guide, so I want it to be perfect haha. I hope your experience with AirVPN will be a good one! Mine certainly has been. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Thank you for reading :] P.S. I consider myself pretty savvy, but I remember being confused when I got here. So I can only imagine how it is for less savvy individuals. P.P.S. I know it lacks images, but images do evil things to my spoilers, lol.

Hello! It could. The current decision is that next [EDIT: now current 2.24.6] Eddie Desktop edition version will print "Taiwan, Republic of China", by breaking ISO compliance and at the same time not leaving any doubt to PRC propaganda brainwashed people. This definition should be strong enough to satisfy everyone except mainland China and supporters of standards, of course. Kind regards

Everything still works for me on ublock origin with 1 small adjustment. I think reddit blocked anyone with a Reddit session data value of 0. i use: reddit.com#%#//scriptlet('set-cookie-reload', 'reddit_session', '1') As you can see, the only change is the last number from 0 to 1 and everything works again.

I agree with your sentiment - it takes a lot of time when you're unfamiliar with this stuff and are already busy doing something else. But it is easier than it seems. To renew the certificate: - Go to https://airvpn.org/ - Sign in - Select the "Client Area" tab - Under "VPN Devices" click the "Manage" button - Click the "Details" button - Click the "Renew" button Then do what Staff says in the above post: - run Eddie - on Eddie's main window uncheck "Remember me" - log your account out - log your account in (you'll need to re-enter your AirVPN credentials) - try again a connection

Hello! We're very glad to inform you that a new 1 Gbit/s (full duplex) server located in Taipei (Taiwan), is available: Sulafat. The server supports OpenVPN over SSL and OpenVPN over SSH, TLS 1.3, OpenVPN tls-crypt and WireGuard. 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 them 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. 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 and 4096 bit DH key not shared with any other VPN server. This is our first server in Taiwan; the tests we have performed during the last week have been encouraging but not totally perfect for our quality standards. Your feedback is welcome and it will be crucial to determine whether this server's datacenter can meet your expectations and requirements. You can check the status in our real time servers monitor: https://airvpn.org/servers/Sulafat/ Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Staff

Hello! We're very glad to inform you that a new 10 Gbit/s full duplex server located in Zurich, Switzerland, is available: Alpherg. 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. Alpherg 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 by clicking the names of the servers. Do not hesitate to contact us for any information or issue. Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Staff

pfsense warned me last month that some old certs were expiring so I'm not surprised that some people are seeing this results. It's unfortunate that software (eddie) or this web site didn't warn people they were using certs about to expire.

Chicago servers are consistently reaching their 1 Gbps capacity, frequently throttling connections below 10 Mbps! I think there is a need for an upgrade in the region. Chicago/Midwest region would benefit greatly from a 10 Gbps server. I see several 10 Gbps servers were added in other major cities around the US over the past year or two, but so far haven't seen any in the Midwest (US). I've been exclusively using Chicago servers on AirVPN for several years now. I’ve noticed a decline in reliability over the past six months due to increased user demand and lack of bandwidth capacity. Switching between Chicago servers often yields no improvement. I have tried the nearest 10gbit servers in Toronto, New York and Phoenix, but have had pretty poor results. Most likely due to the fact that they are so far away. Even during non peak times it's very rare there is enough available capacity on these 1gbit Chicago servers to saturate my 500mbps fiber home connection. Would love to know if there are any plans in the near future for upgrading servers in this region. I would also like to mention a post I made over a year ago, where I mentioned how I think adding Per City Load balancing functionality would greatly improve the experience in these congested areas. Even right now as I'm writing this, I am struggling to find a Chicago server running at acceptable speeds. See the below screenshots and you can see for yourself: With VPN on Praecipua server: : Without VPN:

Hi AirVPN, Would just like to advocate for more servers/bandwidth to be made available for the Oceania region. The two servers in the region are often running at high capacity, resulting in degraded performance for users using the Oceania region. Thanks for your consideration.

I’d love to see a new 10G server in the Midwest. While it’s not a dealbreaker, it would definitely be a great addition! Edit: One thing I want to point out is that I’ve been testing Mullvad VPN to compare speeds based on server providers. I’ve noticed that certain server providers and may experience poor routing or routing bottlenecks depending on your ISP. For example, the new New York servers on Tzulo (used by both AirVPN and Mullvad) give me terrible results—decent latency but typically only around 40 Mbps symmetrical. Meanwhile, servers from Datapacket and M247 consistently provide over symmetrical gigabit speeds on WireGuard. I think Mullvad's approach of using multiple providers in some cities is a good idea, as it gives users the flexibility to choose servers with the best routing or latency. I don’t know for certain, but AirVPN may have their reasons (costs, contracts, security) for not choosing certain providers, and that’s completely fine. However, I think this is something they could consider if its in the realm of possibility.

Hello I would like to give my personal recommendations to help with network censorship in Russia. I may not have time to write a authoritative, proper guide, but wanted to share this. Everything "clicked" once I read a comment how the DPI works to determine a new connection. Preface IP and subnet blocks came first. They completely blackhole all traffic to blocked IP addresses. The only thing you can try is IPv6 in place of IPv4. Some Air servers are blocked by IP. The Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) is a required installation for residential ISPs and (as of late) industrial networks like data centers. It works to dynamically block known protocol traffic, anything "forbidden" that's not yet in IP blocklists from above. This system was put in law many years ago. Nevertheless, the networks across the country are at various stages of rollout and their capabilities will differ. Real example: residential ISP did not block OpenVPN->Air, yet the mobile carrier did. Yet in 2024 the residential ISP upgraded their DPI system and started blocking OpenVPN too. Common methods of circumvention Mangle traffic locally to fool the DPI systems. It will allow you to connect to servers not blocked by IP (TLS SNI name detection). Proxy/VPN server: A prerequisite is an outside server, it must not have been blocked by IP. If it's a private server and OpenVPN or Wireguard work - you're lucky. However be prepared to still get blocked by DPI any day for using a VPN protocol. There are many proxy tools, especially developed to combat the Great Firewall of China. They don't run directly on Air, so this is something for self-hosting or other services to provide. We're talking about Air, so let's get that VPN working. Everything below requires you to find a reachable Air server (no direct IP blocks). The configuration server used by Eddie is IP blocked, so it won't work at all. I suggest you to generate all server configs in advance and see which are reachable from Russian networks. Airvpn.org seems to be reachable though. OpenVPN over SSH to Air It is possible to set this up on mobile, however the connection is reset after 10-30 seconds due to a lot of traffic being pushed. I used ConnectBot and it didn't restart the SSH connection properly, anyhow OpenVPN and ConnectBot had to be reconnected manually each time --> unusable. Since both apps are easily downloadable from app stores/F-Droid, this can be enough to generate and download configs from AirVPN's website in a dire situation. This connection type works like this: SSH connects to Air server, forwards a local port -> Air (internal_ip:internal_port) OpenVPN connects to local_ip:local_port and SSH sends the packets to Air's OpenVPN endpoint inside this tunnel Once the connection is established, it works like a regular OpenVPN on your system OpenVPN over stunnel to Air I haven't tried, desktop only? OpenVPN (TCP) over Tor to Air While connecting to Tor will be another adventure, do you really need a VPN if you get Tor working for browsing? If yes, I suppose it could work. I haven't tried. OpenVPN (TCP) to Air May start working after hours on Android, if the connection was established initially. Until then you'll see a lot of outgoing traffic but almost zero incoming traffic (NOT ZERO though!) It is unclear to me whether this is because Android keeps reconnecting after sleeping or sometimes it pushes so little traffic over the established connection that DPI forgets or clears the block for this connection only. OpenVPN (UDP) to Air Doesn't work. Wireguard to Air Doesn't work, it's always UDP and very easily detected. AmneziaWG client to connect to standard Wireguard Air servers This worked for me almost flawlessly. The trick of AmneziaWG is to send random trash packets before starting the connection sequence. This is what the new parameters are and some of them are compatible with standard Wireguard servers. The DPI only checks traffic within the initial traffic size window of the connection. If it doesn't find VPN connection signatures (and it doesn't due to random data) then it whitelists the connection. Wireguard then sends its connection packets and connects to Air. Full speed ahead, no throttling. The VPN connection works! What's the catch? The AmneziaWG packet configuration must be right. This worked for me across all networks I encountered: MTU: 1320 (safe value, higher MTU will give better bandwidth, if it works at all and doesn't begin to fragment packets) Junk Packet count (Jc): 31 Junk Packet minimum size (Jmin): 20 Junk Packet maximum size (Jmax): 40 Init packet junk size (S1): none (afaik only with AmneziaWG server; delete from config or try to set 0) Response packet junk size (S2): none (afaik only with AmneziaWG server; delete from config or try to set 0) Magic header settings changeable afaik only with AmneziaWG server: Init packet magic header (H1): 1 Response packet magic header (H2): 2 Underload packet magic header (H3): 3 Transport packet magic header (H4): 4 Example: [Interface] ... other default values, including MTU ... Jc=31 Jmin=20 Jmax=40 H1=1 H2=2 H3=3 H4=4 And how would you know what numbers to set? This single insight: This means flooding small random UDP packets at the beginning is the winning strategy. That's how I optimized someone's config from "sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't" to "works 100% of the time, everywhere". You actually don't want to blast big packets and be blocked because of it. Smaller random packets are good for mobile traffic too. How would you setup AmneziaWG to connect to Air (Android)? Generate and download AirVPN Wireguard configs, for each individual server, try different entry IPs too. DO NOT USE THE DEFAULT (OFFICIAL) WIREGUARD PORT. We don't want long-term logging to highlight the working servers for the next round of IP blocks. Download AmneziaWG-Android VPN client (the Android edition is actually a fork of the official Wireguard app aka "AmneziaWG". Don't download their regular all-in-one client aka "AmneziaVPN"!): amnezia.org or https:// storage.googleapis .com/kldscp/amnezia.org or https://github.com/amnezia-vpn/amneziawg-android/releases Import Air's configs in the app Apply "Junk Packet" settings from above Try to connect Try different entry IPs and servers if the connection doesn't work. See if the server IP is completely blocked either with: ping "<entry IP>" nc -zv -w 10 "<entry IP>" "<port 80 or 2018 for OpenVPN TCP>" This is GNU netcat Keep in mind: on Android the safest way to avoid any traffic leaks is to go to system settings, Connection & sharing > VPN, or search for "VPN", click on (i) for advanced settings, Enable: "Stay Connected to VPN" & "Block All Connections not Using VPN". If you ever disconnect from VPN by using Android's system notification, you'll need to re-enable these settings. If you switch between VPN apps (like Eddie -> AmneziaWG), I suggest to make sure these settings are always enabled like this: Turn off Wi-Fi (or mobile data) For previous VPN app disable: "Stay Connected to VPN" & "Block All Connections not Using VPN" For next VPN app enable: "Stay Connected to VPN" & "Block All Connections not Using VPN" Turn on Wi-Fi / connect using next VPN app Android battery optimization: Finally, go to app's settings (or Settings-Battery then app list somewhere) and make sure the AmneziaWG app is "not optimized" for battery. This way it will not be interrupted in the background and potentially drop connection until the screen is awake. -- https://dontkillmyapp.com/ for guides and more info Thanks for reading. Big politicians are not your friends, stay strong and propagate what you truly believe in.

AirVPN has always been as more customizable and advanced in features than other providers. AirVPN seams to target normal / average users that require simplicity (Eddie) as well as power users that want to generate and tune their own configuration files. Of coruse Wireguard is faster and eats less resources but OpenVPN has some features, for them I hope and think AirVPN will not drop support: - OpenVPN can run in TCP mode and can be used with http/https proxies, socks4/socks5 proxies (these support UDP too) - OpenVPN can emulate HTTP(s) traffic and thus run behind corporate office firewalls or more restrictive firewalls. Other than this Wireguard is faster, easier to deploy and set-up but is UDP only. Aslo, there are set-ups that work on OpenVPN (even without its TCP functionality) that will take a lot of time to migrate to wireguard. And OpenVPN is actively and well maintained, I don't see a direct awesome reason to drop support for it. just my regular user humble opinion.

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) inbound remote port forwarding with multiple pools 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 245 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 2024-12-03 (UTC). Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Staff

Hello! We inform you that due to a few problems we are forced to replace the server Kitalpha in Switzerland. A much more powerful server will replace Kitalpha in the next days and it will be connected to a 10 Gbit/s full duplex port and line. As usual, the new server will be announced in this "News" forum in due time. The new server will not only replace Kitalpha but will also provide the additional bandwidth that several users require in Switzerland. We roughly estimate that the server will be available to you by November the 25th. Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Staff

Provide sub-regions for US region, perhaps useast.airvpn.org, uscentral.airvpn.org, and uspacific.airvpn.org? This will minimize latency on games that try to connect you to the closest server by having your exit ip to be in the same area. Manually managing the different local region servers is a pain when some are offline while others have high packet loss. It would be nice to be connected to the best performing local region server and not the one across the country.

Whoever just helped me, I am literally crying. That was so nice. Jeez.

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

Eddie 2.24.6 Desktop Edition released Hello! We're very glad to inform you that a new stable release of Eddie is now available for Linux (various ARM based architectures included, making it compatible with several Raspberry Pi systems), macOS, Windows. Special thanks to all the beta testers, whose invaluable contributions and suggestions in the last months have helped developers fix several bugs and improve the overall stability of the software. Eddie is a free and open source (GPLv3) OpenVPN GUI and CLI by AirVPN with many additional features such as: traffic leaks prevention via packet filtering rules DNS handling optional connections over Tor or a generic proxy customizable events traffic splitting on a destination IP address or host name basis complete and swift integration with AirVPN infrastructure with OpenVPN and WireGuard white and black lists of VPN servers ability to support IPv4, IPv6 and IPv6 over IPv4 What's new in Eddie 2.24.6 WireGuard is the new communication protocol by default, while OpenVPN remains available for any necessity CPU usage optimization update of packaged binaries and libraries new options to customize WireGuard improved management and configuration of bootstrap servers (qualified domain names are now possible too) systemd-resolved (Linux) enhanced compatibility for all working modes improved management of SIGTERM signal several bug fixes Operating and architectural notes Eddie GUI and CLI run with normal user privileges, while a "backend" binary, which communicates to the user interface with authentication, gains root/administrator privileges, with important security safeguards in place: strict parsing is enforced before passing a profile to OpenVPN in order to block insecure OpenVPN directives external system binaries which need superuser privileges (examples: openvpn, iptables, hummingbird) will not be launched if they do not belong to a superuser Eddie events are not run with superuser privileges: instead of trusting blindly user's responsibility and care when dealing with events, the user is required to explicitly operate to run something with high privileges, if strictly necessary Backend binary is written in C++ on all systems (Windows included), making the whole application faster. Settings, certificates and keys of your account stored on your mass storage can optionally be encrypted on all systems either with a Master Password or in a system key-chain if available. Download Eddie 2.24.6 Eddie 2.24.6 can be downloaded here: https://airvpn.org/linux - Linux version (several architectures and various distribution specific packages for easier installation) https://airvpn.org/macos - Mac version https://airvpn.org/windows - Windows version Eddie is free and open source software released under GPLv3. Source code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/AirVPN/Eddie Complete changelog can be found here. Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Staff

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

I've been a happy customer for a long time now. And I have a long time commitment to AirVPN too, with my plan not expiring for four more years. In the past few months the situation with servers load has gone from bad to worse. It's become noticeable in all applications. P2P above else, where I have a pretty firm idea of what the performance can be. This is my current performance under AirVPN. This is my current performance outside the tunnel. Before the recent influx of new users the situation was far better. Sad state of affairs and I'd like to understand if AirVPN is planning to so something to remedy the situation or if I have to look elsewhere in order to properly use my connection. Thank you. Even though the message might not sound like it, I'm a big fan of AirVPN and of their overall mission.

Hello! We're very glad to inform you that a new 1 Gbit/s full duplex server located in Auckland (NZ) is available: Theemin. 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 OpenVPN connections on ports 53, 80, 443, 1194, 2018 UDP and TCP, and WireGuard connections on ports 1637, 47107 and 51820. Just like every other Air server, Theemin supports OpenVPN over SSL and OpenVPN over SSH, TLS 1.3, 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 server status as usual in our real time servers monitor: https://airvpn.org/servers/Theemin Do not hesitate to contact us for any information or issue. Kind regards and datalove AirVPN Team

I started using AirVPN in 2023 because I wanted port forwarding. That was the most advanced thing I did back then. Just using Eddie-UI on a Windows 10 PC. Servers are fast, plenty of choices. Network lock works perfectly so no need to worry about leaks. Perfect for beginners and advanced users. Since then, I have branched out a bit and as a part of my career, I have needed to start using Linux. So I have spent some time messing around on Linux. But I need to say how incredible and comprehensive AirVPN is. Honestly the team at AirVPN is the absolute best. No bulls**t from them ever. I don't think everyone understands how well they've made their service. It completely outclasses other VPN providers *Cough cough Nord*. At first I was a bit intimidated by the UI, but it's a quick learning curve for Eddie-UI. It works and gets the job done. I realise now that it's better than way, its clean and fast, no unnecessary bloat. Just the sheer amount of control and customization is incredible. Honestly guys, thank you. Compatible with any device I could think of. I never realised the level of control possible with AirVPN. But now that I have more niche and specific use cases, it has really proven to be so incredibly well made. Everything I want to do is possible. So many vulnerabilities are avoided by using Air. I've never seen such top notch security. Truly thank you. If anyone is unsure if they should get AirVPN, the answer is yes. I started out using it in the most basic form using Eddie-UI on my PC and Phone. But now I configure everything myself for certain tasks, and I am still learning something new each time. You can use this service for the most basic needs, all the way to the most advanced. Oh and wow it's so lightweight. Can run on practically anything without any problems. This is clearly something made by extremely knowledgeable people To everyone at AirVPN, thank you guys. 10/10 service A+++

Hello! Good news. A new server in New Zealand was ordered early on January and it has just been connected. We are going to configure it in the next business day, and if everything goes well it will be available a few days later. Kind regards

id rather them dedicate that time to finalizing/ continuing to work with openvpn DCO

Any plans for 10Gbit servers in the UK @Staff? Thanks

Hello! We're very glad to announce a remarkable expansion of our inbound remote port forwarding system aimed at avoiding once and for all the port exhaustion problem. The comfort and the growth problem In the AirVPN "Port Forwarding" service, unlike some of our competitors we grant that assigned ports are not server specific. We also ensure that they remain permanently reserved to an account for as long as any valid plan is active. This unique system offers unparalleled comfort as you don't have to worry about server switches, zone selections and program re-configurations. However, ports are only 65536, because the space reserved for them in a TCP/IP packet header is 2 bytes, and the inconvenience of the great comfort brought by the AirVPN service is that the port exhaustion is nearing as more and more users decide to use the service. A "no compromise" solution Our goal was to avoid port exhaustion while maintaining maximum comfort. We are introducing a new system specifically designed to achieve this goal. Now we allocate not only a port number, but a port number associated with a port pool. For example a port on pool :1 can be assigned to a user, and the same port number in pool :2 can be assigned to another user. Existing assigned port will come from the first pool (:1). Currently we offer two pools, but more pools can be added whenever necessary. With this method, port exhaustion is postponed indefinitely while the comfort of the service is preserved. In the following example you can see the pool (:1, :2 for now) specified right after the port number. The account has port 24860 reserved in both pools. How it works Each Air VPN server sends out clients' VPN traffic through a shared exit IP address. From now on, AirVPN servers feature multiple exit IP addresses, each of which is linked to a specific port pool. Therefore we can determine which pool a port/address is associated with and route traffic accordingly. The implications for AirVPN users and customers The obvious good impact is that port availability increases dramatically. The new system is not difficult at all and extremely similar to the previous one: simply use DDNS (*) names with port forwarding, and not the direct IP address. Your account name(s) based on AirVPN's DDNS will always resolve into the correct server's exit-IP address related to the pool of your assigned port. If you prefer to rely on IP addresses or anyway you don't want to define domain names through AirVPN's DDNS, you can find the correct IP address used by clicking the Test Open button available in your AirVPN account port panel. Please note that this IP address could change over time, so domain names defined by DDNS are a more comfortable solution. There is only a modest caveat (which could be resolved in the future), please see below. Caveat Any setup not involving manual communication on how to connect to a service, as it happens with a p2p program, does not need domain names at all. If a program transmits autonomously how it can be reached (typical examples: some blockchain wallet programs, all torrent programs), at this stage please make sure you forward a port from pool 1 for those programs. For p2p programs that allow manual announcement configuration of the IP address, you can also use pool 2. (*) DDNS is a service offered automatically for free to all accounts and included on every and each AirVPN plan. Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Staff

Norway's servers are over 60% most of the day. Can you ship a couple of Sweden's unused servers to Oslo? There's like 5 not being used.

New version, mainly bug fixes, to promote it to Stable as soon as possible. A completely revamped version of the UI, no longer based on Mono (for Linux) and Xamarin (for MacOS), is in development, but we cannot currently estimate a release date. Version 2.24.3 (Wed, 06 Nov 2024 12:08:47 +0000) [bugfix] [all] CPU usage optimization [change] [all] OpenVPN 2.6.12 [bugfix] [all] Various minor fixes [change] [all] Fine-tuning of Network Lock IPv6 rules (Private & Translation) [bugfix] [linux] Hide window when minimized to tray [bugfix] [all] Fixed issue with user/password when used with third-party .ovpn files

These replacement servers are extremely slow and only appear to have only 20% the speed of the previous NYC servers (Haeduis, Ikill, etc). What gives????

Hello! We're very glad to inform you that three new 10 Gbit/s full duplex servers located in Los Angeles, California, are available: Maia, Sarin, Xamidimura. They have replaced Groombridge, Saclateni and Teegarden with more powerful hardware and higher overall bandwidth. 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. The new servers 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 by clicking the names of the servers. Do not hesitate to contact us for any information or issue. Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Team

Hello! We reluctantly have to announce gloomy news to you all: Spooky Halloween Deals are now available in AirVPN... Save up to 74% on AirVPN longer plans (*) (*) When compared to 1 month plan price Deal will expire on 2024-11-04 UTC Check all plans and discounts here: https://airvpn.org/plans If you're already our customer and you wish to jump aboard for a longer period any additional plan will be added on top of already existing subscriptions and you will not lose any day. Every plan gives you all the features that made AirVPN a nightmare for snoopers and a scary service for competitors. Just check this frighteningly long list of terrific features if you dare: a clear mission without compromises https://airvpn.org/mission exclusive and comfortable remote inbound port forwarding system flexible, opt-in block lists against malware and other hostile entities. Pick predefined lists, add exceptions or additional blocks, define your own lists, or just use our totally neutral DNS by default improved API functions to let you control and configure VPN features and account settings active OpenVPN 3 AirVPN library open source development WireGuard integration IPv6 support, including IPv6 over IPv4 refined load balancing to squeeze every last bit per second from VPN servers free and open source software for Android, Linux, Mac and Windows easy "Configuration Generator" web interface for access through third party software guaranteed minimum bandwidth allocation GDPR compliance and very high privacy protection standards no log and/or inspection of clients' traffic effective traffic leaks prevention by AirVPN software Tor support via AirVPN software on Linux, Mac and Windows various cryptocurrencies accepted without any intermediary no obligation to use our free and open source software to enter AirVPN infrastructure. Interoperability is an AirVPN priority. perfectly clear and easy to read Privacy Notice and Terms https://airvpn.org/privacy No tricks, only treats! We witch you a spooktacular Halloween! AirVPN Staff

Hello! We confirm the problem and we could determine that both the domain name authoritative DNS and the web site block the Taiwan server. Packets get out regularly from the server and from Taiwan but they are black holed by the final destination datacenters. Furthermore the authoritative DNS does not answer to our DNS server in Taiwan (this is a lesser problem as you could resolve the name through some other public DNS or the hosts file). We don't know the reasons of this behavior. If you query Democracy Now and you receive a reply please let us know. In the meantime we can "micro-route" Democracy Now web site from Sulafat, we will examine how to do it soon. Yes, this is in the official ISO-3166 that Eddie uses to find areas names assigned by the United Nations. According to a previous administrative division, Taiwan is the biggest province of the Republic of China (ROC), not to be confused with People's Republic of China (PRC, mainland China). By using Taiwan as the country's name, "Province of China" is also a definition pushed by PRC at all levels (from UN to NGOs) to shape two ideas: that PRC must "re-unify" with Taiwan and that when you say "China" you don't talk about the Republic of China, but about the PRC (even PRC detractors fall prey of this propaganda as we can see from this thread). In this sense ISO-3166-2:TW entry could be seen as a concession to PRC narrative and the PRC can "play" over the ambiguity of the definition. In the next version we may either stay with this one, according to the United Nations status (but see here for some arguments against this), or censor the ISO document itself. A UN spokesperson’s statement in May 2024, reiterating that Taiwan is a province of China (referring to PRC and not ROC according to directly or indirectly PRC controlled media), guided by the General Assembly resolution of 1971 (Resolution 2758), is important to see how much energy PRC spends to affirm the notion that there is only one China and this only China is PRC and not ROC. On the other hand, we have been fighting and circumventing mainland China (PRC) censorship for 14 years, we recognize China (PRC) as a country enemy of the Internet, controlled by a regime hostile to various human rights, and in reality resolution 2758 interpretation may have been distorted by PRC.. Therefore ISO-3166-2:TW unilateral modification to delete "Province of China" is not unreasonable for us. The matter will be discussed. However, to insinuate that the normal software usage of an ISO document to translate or find a country/area name means that AirVPN endorses PRC (or PRC alleged wet dream to invade Taiwan) or that AirVPN fails its mission after all the sacrifices brought on to circumvent censorship in mainland China is offensive to say the least, or not in good faith in the worst case. The very fact that we list the server in Taiwan with Taiwan as a country tells a lot, as today Taiwan is recognized as a country only by 12 countries in the world. Kind regards

Disappointed this is called "province of China" in Eddie, hope this is an oversight.

This is by far the most resilient vpn I use. There are so many features and the VPN auto connected. There are many servers to choose from and the speeds are very fast! 😁 5/5.

Hello everyone! We hereby publish the Community Forum policy in response to requests for clarification as apparently the generic invitations to comply to Netiquette are not sufficient. We will spread this information throughout the platform if necessary. This document pertains only to Community forums and not to AirVPN forums for official AirVPN communications and guides, where only AirVPN staff can open new threads. The Community Forums are managed and maintained by AirVPN, inside its own infrastructure, and are intended to be an environment to: improve AirVPN services through community driven suggestions provide an old style, relaxed platform for customers to get technical help in addition to the core assistance provided by the professional AirVPN customer care and support team. Community forum is open to everybody, including non-AirVPN customers, and moderated by AirVPN staff. Community moderators may be appointed by AirVPN staff on a voluntary basis to improve moderation. Messages posted on the forums and authors must comply with the following rules: Message content and author's behavior must respect Netiquette rules as described here: https://www.britannica.com/topic/netiquette Content must be rigorously on topic. The topic is specified in the description of each forum or made explicit in the name itself. Any form of explicit or surreptitious advertising for third party companies or private activities is prohibited. Moderators have the task to enforce compliance with the above rules. Messages that violate the rules can be deleted. When possible, moderators will inform the author about the infringement. Authors of two or more messages whose content violates the rules can have their accounts temporarily prevented from posting in the forum. If the author of a message reputes that a moderator made a mistake in the moderation actvity, communication with the moderator is encouraged. If the author is still unsatisfied by communication with the moderator, AirVPN staff can be contacted at info@airvpn.org. The staff undertakes to examine author's' complaints within a reasonable time not exceeding 30 days. Kind regards and datalove AirVPN Staff

Hello! The Express VPN interface causes a critical error to OpenVPN: Tell Eddie to ignore any alien interface: Select from Eddie's main window Preferences > Networking, write eddie in the "VPN interface name" field click Save. You may also consider to switch to WireGuard to bypass the alien interface. You can do it in Preferences > Protocols window. Uncheck Automatic, select a WireGuard connection mode and click Save. Kind regards

I just wanted to request a server in Denmark

The United States is an enemy of the Internet. More and more our technology and communications are captured illegaly and stored for many years and then used against us in court. The government seems to sincerely believe that it owns the Internet and regulary hacks into foreign servers to retrieve data, seizes domain names, etc. and any citizen who can be considered a hacker under broad laws will be thrown in prison. My warning as a US citizen is to watch out, encrypt, keep everything secure, keep data offshore, and avoid any US-influenced entities such as ICANN. Thank you AirVPN for the great continued service. I've been using multiple VPN connections almost constantly for the past year everywhere and as far as I can see that will continue

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This is honestly one of the most inspiring things I've read lately. It solidifies why we're all here, either as a customer, contributor, or whatever. I have used nord for the last few years and never thought twice about it. After recent life changes I decided to take the time to invest into my understanding of networking, the internet, etc. On top of future proofing myself I want to learn how to be less reliant on services that I can't trust to not sell every last ounce of privacy I have left. This is some next level community support, I love to see it, and hope nothing but the best for you and those who helped / continue to help every day.

Hello! We're very glad to announce a special promotion on our long term Premium plans for the end of Summer or Winter, according to the hemisphere you live in.  You can get prices as low as 2.06 €/month with a three years plan, which is a 70% discount when compared to monthly plan price of 7 €. If you're already our customer and you wish to stay aboard for a longer period, any additional subscription will be added on top of already existing subscriptions and you will not lose any day. Please verify AirVPN features and check plans special prices on https://airvpn.org and https://airvpn.org/buy All reported discounts are computed against the 7 EUR/month plan. The sale will end on September the 24th (UTC) Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Staff

Hello! We're sorry to inform you that Altais (Kiev, Ukraine) has been canceled by the service provider due to our refusal to provide 100% warranty that non-permitted activities will ever take place on the server, which is of course an impossible commitment not only for VPN but for any ISP providing private citizens with any online service in general. We're also sorry to inform you that we have no plans at the moment to rent new servers in Kiev or anywhere else in Ukraine because of various factors, among which the behavior of local police (remember in the past the request for bribes masked as fines to unlock servers) and the unreliability of local datacenter managers, which seem to be used to cancel services without notification and without refunds. Over the past decade, the behavior of Ukrainian datacenters and local authorities has brought nothing but inconvenience to our customers, so it is time to (at least temporarily) suspend operations there. Kind regards AirVPN Staff

Hello! We have no plans to operate VPN servers in France (and in Italy) for the mandatory data retention framework still enforced in disdain of three different legally binding decisions of the CJEU (see below). France is in breach and Italy is too, but the Commission hesitates to open infraction procedures. Since the decisions pertain to the the preservation of a fundamental human right enshrined in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and in the European Convention on Human Rights, it does not seem inappropriate to consider that both France and Italy are committing one of the worst breaches a EU Member State can be guilty of. We might challenge with a casus belli the (il)legal framework in France, but we are already committed in other EU countries and we can't open potentially multiple legal battle fronts. The Court of Justice declares the Data Retention Directive to be invalid https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2014-04/cp140054en.pdf The Members States may not impose a general obligation to retain data on providers of electronic communications services https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2016-12/cp160145en.pdf The Court of Justice confirms that EU law precludes national legislation requiring a provider of electronic communications services to carry out the general and indiscriminate transmission or retention of traffic data and location data for the purpose of combating crime in general or of safeguarding national security https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2020-10/cp200123en.pdf Kind regards