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  1. go558a83nk
    I'm already on 2.3 Release via upgrade from 2.2.6. I'm just hesitant to do a clean install because everything seems to be working. That's why I asked how you're testing DNS and if the tunables problem was important.
  2. go558a83nk
    Air had a server in Ukraine some time ago but the datacenter was raided and servers stolen, so the story goes. I doubt Air will try anything there again. And Russia is a no-go zone.
  3. go558a83nk
    how are you testing for the DNS bugs? problems with system tunables that are important? at this point I'm hesitant to do a clean install.
  4. go558a83nk
    in the eddie client preferences -> advanced, disable ipv6. if ipv6 is the culprit that should fix the problem. also, using the network lock, if you can, will solve a lot of problems.
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    I know nothing about such a law but seems like that would be a stretch. after all, you're not tampering with the network. you're only using it for an encrypted tunnel.
  6. go558a83nk
    why not use the client that AirVPN makes?
  7. go558a83nk
    yep, I have comcast too. during low usage times I get 120mbit/s but other times I can only get about 80mbit/s.
  8. go558a83nk
    No. My ISP speed is consistent so this doesn't matter too much. perhaps a common mistake being made here to think your ISP speed is consistent. how do you test your speed? from what server? ISPs have a sneaky way of always making your speed look great. In your ISP network the speed may be blazing but your ISP may actually be overselling their bandwidth capacity in peerage and transit agreements. That's where bottlenecks will be. Therefore the routing to different VPN servers will significantly affect your potential speed as some routes are less congested than others. And, of course, time of day matters a great deal if they (ISP) are indeed hitting bandwidth limits along certain routes at busy times of day.
  9. go558a83nk
    were those two tests done within minutes of each other?
  10. go558a83nk
    and try different servers. routing makes all the difference.
  11. go558a83nk
    if the speed varies by time of day it's most certainly a bottleneck in the route to/from the server, not the fault of the router. 900kB/s is slow. the route to the PIA server may be "better" and that's why you see consistently better speeds. It's also easy to see the load on an AirVPN server but it's most likely not the reason for slow speeds.
  12. go558a83nk
    A sentence with 10 words would lead to a 10 character password? How is that stronger than any other 10 character password?
  13. go558a83nk
    please feel free to share the reasons for your conclusion. I'm just curious.
  14. go558a83nk
    gigglenerd - must be April 1st
  15. go558a83nk
    trace the route. most likely your ISP lost some connectivity forcing the route to take a long path.
  16. go558a83nk
    yes, merlin asus firmware has pretty easy to use policy based routing in the openvpn client GUI. that's all I've used for my asus routers.
  17. go558a83nk
    what operating system are you running openvpn on? If linux you might try "mtu-disc yes" or "mtu-disc maybe". don't forget to try "mssfix 0" in combination with mtu-discovery. Also, have you tried different send and receive buffers since changing ISP?
  18. go558a83nk
    I have never seen this with my asus routers. but nevermind that. an AC52 is a ranger extender. are you sure you're using VPN on an AC52?
  19. go558a83nk
    you can try turning off mssfix altogether in the custom openvpn config section "mssfix 0" (that's zero). but, most likely you'll have to do what staff said and use the SSL tunnel.
  20. go558a83nk
    I think you answered it pretty well. I was just worried about what all can be seen. I guess it would be best to explain more fully. My father works for comcast (supervisor) and I suspect that he has been informing my mother of all the things that I look up. Whether it be simple things like checking my email or bank account to more private things like the things I watch and personal conversations on the internet with people in forums. I don't want him to have even the NOTION that he knows what I'm doing. I am an adult. I shouldn't be monitored by them at this point in my life. Does AirVPN have built-in DNS leak protection or do I need to research a program for that? go to ipleak.net to check if DNS is leaking.
  21. go558a83nk
    no, you're not invisible to your ISP. They just can't decode the encrypted connection between you and the VPN server. only danger I can think of are governments that deem them illegal no, your connection is encrypted. just make sure your DNS isn't leaking or they might have some idea what you are doing because they'd know the urls you've resolved. if you're using Eddie you're probably not leaking, especially if you use the network lock is your last question a repeat or do you mean regular usage not on a VPN?
  22. go558a83nk
    Yes on DNS and NTP options/fixes.
  23. go558a83nk
    another thing how can I access my cable modem when the VPN is up? my LAN subnet is 192.168.1.0/24 For some reason I can ping my cable modem (192.168.100.1) but it's going out the VPN tunnel. Because of that I can't actually pull up the cable modem web GUI. I've tried to put in rules to allow 192.168.100.1 to be accessed through the WAN but I guess I'm doing something wrong because it didn't change anything. Edit: Got this figured out too.
  24. go558a83nk
    Just built a box for pfsense and used your guide on the first page of this thread to get things more or less working. My setup is just cheap "desktop" parts but it's fast. I'm using just 2 NICs. I'd love some help/ideas on how to do the following 1) easiest setup for switching between various VPN providers. This is a problem if I intend to use VPN provider DNS. 2) I actually would rather use public DNS as long as I can verify DNS requests from VPN tunneled clients are actually going through the tunnel. Prior to this new pfsense box my router, unless I created policy rules, would send DNS requests out the WAN even for clients routed through the VPN. 3) Finally, how do I route certain LAN clients through through WAN and not VPN? BTW, got a cheap AMD A6 7400K CPU, turned on AES-NI, and selected the engine in the openvpn client setup. I was able to max out my line, 120mbit/s. Nice! Edit: I think I've figured out a couple of the questions above. Still tinkering with the idea of using different DNS. The reason is that often AirDNS points me to a server far away, not the nearest in a given network.
  25. go558a83nk
    is the server you're connecting to very near to you?
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