go558a83nk

Is this the proper thread to report problems?

For now I'll write here I guess.

Using 2.11 in a Mint 17.3 VM on a win10 host.  The .deb installer worked smoothly.

First startup of the app seems a little out of sorts - says there are no servers at first.  Then it seems to behave properly.

I took the time to arrange the columns in the servers window but they didn't survive a reboot of the machine.  That annoyance should be fixed.

Appreciate very much the new ports available!

This article is referring to the thesis zhang888 made in this thread:

 

http://best10vpn.com/is-private-internet-access-broke/

 

But the author falsely claims that it was the user "Go557a83nk" who brought it up, while in reality it was zhang888. Bad inquiry by best10vpn.

 

Regards

 

Fox

I did not know PIA was having other problems.  That fills in some of the story.  I just wish my name weren't used in their article. 

 

 

Tbh, there is a chance either of them is lying or both, however personally I'm inclined to believe PIA are the ones lying due to some experiences I've had with them.

 

Doesn't matter, if you ask me. Trust in both the RuNet providers and PIA is already broken. The best you can still do is operating a rerouting server to watch local TV or something.

 

I don't know how your trust in PIA is broken. Since they actually have court documents as proof to back up their no logging, while AirVPN doesn't. You people have to remember that PIA has 3k+ servers compared to the 130 servers AirVPN has. I really don't think a single location in Russia is going to make them go broke, when they still have servers in AU. Bandwidth costs a lot more there then in Russia. It's pretty clear that for a mod, zhang888 really doesn't know the situation in Russia. They are asking providers and companies to give up encryption keys and that effects non-russian citizens. I actually liked AirVPN, but it seems they are turning into cryptostorm by spreading bullshit about other providers with no proof to back anything up. I really don't see how they can allow a mod to destroy the AirVPN name like that.

Falsely accusing AirVPN of spreading BS will get you nowhere.  Or, can you point me to where AirVPN staff have said anything about PIA?  What a moderator did do is retell a story of a personal nature.  Perhaps you'd also like to call him a liar?

My ISP is a demon, trying support call, trying router port forward, trying vpn no success at moment

if you are running a VPN from your computer to AirVPN then DO NOT forward ports on your router.

in your client area, forwarded ports section, create forwarded ports with the internal ports you need input into the local port field. 

if you can't get connected then something is wrong on your end most likley.  unless you're in china or the like...

I've never seen those domain names *_exit.airservers.org.  are those correct?

Also, having to reset DHCP each time indicates the OP isn't shutting down the app properly.  improper shutdown also is the reason for DNS problems.  disconnect first, then exit the app and DHCP and DNS will be returned to what they were.

I think this is caused by antivirus or firewall software detecting many UDP connection attempts and disrupting things.

I didn't believe that "official" story, so I went out to check.

During my last check, which was asked by some of the members, their RU servers were colocated

with a very good, but expensive provider called RETN, at 185.22.183.0/24.

And when I say expensive I mean it, we are talking about around $400 USD for a 1Gbit 95-percentile line.

This is an acceptable price for businesses, and RETN are one of the top Tier-1 providers in Eastern Europe

so there is no place to complain. You actually get what you are paying for. But for a VPN company that is high.

 

Then, I assume some months ago since this is what my records show, they moved to PinSPB.ru, likely because

of the prices at RETN. PIN is a good provider, but sometimes unreliable and expensive, since many malware spreaders

and spammers chose to use them as well, and they can afford the price. This is why PIN don't have any special deals of

some kind, you pay a minimum of 150$ per server, with a 100Mbit line. The good news is that you can host and transit

anything you like, as long as is in the sane boundaries, i.e. no child abuse and terror. All that after PinSPB started charging

additional 250$ for flat unmetered 1Gbit, which now makes more sense to me why they canceled the entire deal.

Since me and my clients have a few ISP services from PIN as well (traffic transit) I asked the owner what what the

story with PIA. He said that the after mentioned services on the IPs I quoted are free again, and there were

no seizures or anything alike. Just a simple termination of contract with unpaid future invoices.

 

So that was a nice attempt to cut off a bandwidth expensive country and write a nice marketing post about

how "we are so caring about your privacy" fluff, which may be true to some extent, but that was not what

made them leave the Russian nodes. At least now you can buy a server as an International customer, pay

anonymously, and no one will ask you for any details or traffic whatsoever. The laws are for residential ISPs

if you read them carefully, when you are a datacenter, you can do pretty much whatever you want (with the

right peering partners) and no one can actually know what you are doing or whom you are selling to.

why did PIA send an email to customers urging them to update their client and config files if there was no seizure?

 

I had to look this up. The NSA is not a company. They are in fact a legitimate part of the United States Government.

 

 

Well seems I was wrong, they affect datacenters too apparently and VPN providers. Also Perfect Privacy don't necessarily have to have agreed with logging, the law only wants log data on Russian citizens and gives a rats ass about people from Germany or Britain, if they don't know about Perfect Privacy they got no reason to take their servers.

Well one could be a bit cocky and cynical and perhaps say that "reason" isn't even a theme here, since if it was, there wouldn't be such laws to begin with. But you know, I imagine it's much like with when the NSA says they won't collect information on their own citizens. However if during the dragnet surveillance a couple of their own citizens do get their data swept up, that's an unfortunate accident.

 

The difference is NSA is an american company and they have those constitution stuff that is to protect their privacy so if the NSA collects their data it goes against that, there is none of that here like I wrote above the law is because if people do something here with logs they can find whoever did it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency

 

And those Constitutional protections ceased to exist with the "Patriot Act".

I know it's not an actual company but didn't really know what else to call it. Also what is the "Patriot Act" ?

Patriot Act is something congress keeps passing that allows them to do whatever they want because "terrorism".  It's a serious repression of liberty and freedom yet most americans don't care because they think it makes us safer.

 

I wonder what will happen to AIRs Ukraine servers. Ukraine is not Russia though, but who knows how things develop there.

If Air thought the situation there would be a threat to their operations they'd shut down Ukranian servers

Perhaps you've forgotten but Air did have a server seized in Ukraine for ransom.  But, apparently that didn't compromise the users or the system.

It seems that in the case of PIA things are different.  Perhaps their system does require important information on the servers that fell into the wrong hands.  Thus, they had to warn their users to update config files and/or software.

 

 

To hell with Russia. They forced PIA to have to make and distribute new keys to every single client. You do not have to like PIA to know what a dick move this is.

 

no, PIA should have known better than to have servers in Russia

Really? You favor the jerks stealing information to use against everyone? PIA should have known better, but that does not mean PIA and their users deserved this to happen.

 

I do not know about you, but I favor the victims, not the perpetrators of a crime like this.

you know I don't favor Russia.  that's why I think it's crazy any VPN provider has a presence there.

To hell with Russia. They forced PIA to have to make and distribute new keys to every single client. You do not have to like PIA to know what a dick move this is.

no, PIA should have known better than to have servers in Russia

We told you Russia wasn't a good place to go. 

 

the kind of multi-hop other VPN companies offer isn't tunnel within tunnel but a true hop from one datacenter to another that they've pre-programmed.  You access the program based on the port to which you connect.  Not the usual ports of 443 or 53 but things like 52465 and such.  There are thousands to choose from so plenty to have a program for every possible multi-hop within their system.

 

 

Do you have a link on this to support your post?  By support (not being adversarial), I really mean to help us all visualize how its being internally handled.  Self directing of a "tunnel within a tunnel" provides a safety factor in that I am controlling its construction, and thereby managing the avoidance of a breach in protocol.  I would love to study this as described by you.

You'd have to ask them how they actually do it.

The provider I use (in addition to Air) actually calls them "chains" and you can build your own with several hops.

https://thatoneprivacysite.net/vpn-comparison-chart/

that comparison chart shows there are currently 17 providers that provide multi-hop.

you can certainly do this but you're correct in thinking that with that router openvpn speeds will be very slow.

Your router should have nothing to do with things here if you are using Eddie.  I'm concerned that things are being improperly and insecurely done...

 

Here's a question: Why doesn't the software have a "help" tab? How about a manual?

This somewhat experienced Windows user is accustomed to that.

 

Or are we supposed to experiment by getting letters from our ISP, then

come to the forum to figure out what happened?

 

Both of your claims simply suggest that you did not read the FAQ page.

Specifically, this:

https://airvpn.org/faq/software_lock/

 

The uninstall feature works perfectly, both from the client directory and from the

Windows Programs menu in the control panel.

That applies to you in case you used the installer and not the portable package.

 

>The software needs to handle completely uninstalling itself

when the user wants it uninstalled, in a manner that leaves

the computer functional!

 

Just a note to all readers that AirVPN client does not break your Windows settings whatsoever,

that is a blatant misinformation attempt.

 

nah..  misinformation implies that he knows the truth.  he doesn't.  it's just an uninformed opinion. 

Eddie certainly does need some changes to code so that the improper shutdowns are minimized.  Or would this result in some kind of security problem?

people who know so little about basic windows functions and networking probably don't need a VPN??  I don't really feel that way with the current state of internet in the world.  But, I still wonder what the OP was using a VPN for if he/she can so easily "quit" VPNs.

Connected to Chicago 120ms lat UGH. Went back to Dallas just a fluke?

 

This is with the suggested forced TCP 443 instead of auto.

auto uses UDP.  So if this is with TCP then speed difference is likely not a fluke.  I find TCP gives faster speed when the server is "close" to me.

To the OP: For USA users if the star rating column is set to weight towards speed Canadian servers are put up top.  If weighted towards latency then you'll see what you want to see.  Staff will have to say why it is this way, I don't know.

It's possible to squeeze more speed, assuming you have a modern CPU running in the background. I often see users in the top 10 breaking 100mbit/s and have rarely seen over 200mbit/s.   Fiddle with ports, protocols, buffers, and servers.  Giganerd is right, closer (as the crow files) isn't always better.

I would start with TCP 443.  I'm guessing your testing was done with UDP 443.

and won't the network lock also help here?

windows has a built in wifi hotspot that you can configure to use the VPN adapter.  thus, devices connected to that hotspot go through the VPN tunnel as well.

not sure if you can do the same thing with OStoto.  never even heard of it.

http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/article.php/3849841/How-to-Create-Wireless-Hosted-Networks-in-Windows-7.htm

You share the VPN TAP adapter and choose the hosted network connection as the adapter it's sharing with.

I've never used port forwarding in pfsense so I can't help you with that.  But you might want to use the magnet link tool on ipleak.net to test what ip address your torrent client is advertising.

@Staff, any news on when Auva will be up again?

I would guess they are blocking VPNs.

are you using Merlin Asus firmware?