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Have you tried the latest experimental client? It was tricky to understand you, honestly.

Ah yea, thanks zhang It's just that when I do get an error, it usually outright says "error". It shows two addresses by the way.

The new client is pretty lovely. I'm trying it on Win 7 64-bit at the moment. Thoughts: I noticed that even though Internet Explorer isn't my default browser, Eddie still opens it when you go to the settings in the top left corner and click things such as "Speed Test (Web)". whenever you click a link in the client. It would be nice if it would open it in the default browser :]. I also found it a bit odd that the AirVPN button is greyed out. I also also suggest that Eddie links directly to ipleak.net, in the same drop-down menu as the Speed Test, Portforwarding, Preferences & other settings, because Air controls that site and it's an excellent site. If you call it something such as "Test If You're Protected" or something, then it might make more new users click it as well, as opposed to if you simply call it "ipleak", which they might not know what is. I wonder if the ipleak "IP" and "DNS" fields could be made to display in the client, so that when opening Eddie, it's immediately clear what those 2 results from ipleak would be, haha. It would be especially cool if there was some indication that people who want to torrent, should try download the ipleak test torrent. Just thoughts. It's a shame that WebRTC still leaks with Network Lock on. I think it would be a cool little feature if, when servers are taken down, they don't automatically get removed from the list, but get greyed out instead. Maybe with a message which says "Taken down on x/x/xxx/". So people don't have to ask. Then after a certain amount of time, such as a couple of days or a week, the greyed out ones are pruned from the list. Just a thought haha. People do have their favorite servers around here. I think it would be MUCH more intuitive if the "Preferences" button was moved down to the left pane and simply called either "Preferences" or "Advanced". Because then you wouldn't need to click the logo to discover, from the users point of view, even more settings. I would put it either above or below "Logs", as that makes sense to me, because they're both advanced sort of things and connected. Then you would also reserve the AirVPN button for various links, as you already do and you would then also have space for the ipleak link, if you add it. Or you could put some kind of "Test" button, which links to ipleak, right in the "Overview" tab, so that it's noticeable. It would let people immediately check if they're hidden. Maybe you could put a "What is WebRTC?" link somewhere in the bottom right hand corner or something as well. In the Protocols area, it would be nice if we could still at least scroll down the list, while "Automatic" is ticked, instead of having to un-tick it, when we just want to take a look. It could perhaps also be nice if the list was more ordered, such as <only UDP>, <only TCP>, <only SSL> etc. But that's just an afterthought. Honestly though, I much prefer the old protocols view. Couldn't that design be kept and then you simply add the descriptions as on-hover text? So when you hover the mouse over "SSL tunnel" or "Port 443", some text will say "If your ISP applies caps" etc. etc. The new design simply seems less organised and easy to grasp. I'm pretty sure I read that this client would now make the send & receive buffer sizes 256kb by default. If so, why is it set to "OpenVPN default"? Wouldn't it be more intuitive to just put in 256kb then, when it's the Eddie client we're talking about? Perhaps it's not everyone who knows what the default is, haha. When a user activates Network Lock, they can't get online unless Eddie is on. So have you considered making it such that when someone chooses to activate NL, that the options in "General" are also automatically set to "Connect at Startup" and/or "Start With Windows" ? What happened to the Tor button? It was such a super convenient thing. I hope it doesn't get removed. Aha, so it's in Proxy now. That wasn't so easy to find, I have to admit. Maybe the tab should be named Proxy/Tor instead, since it's quite important. In the last stable version, it was under Protocols and when you went into Protocols, it was immediately noticeable, due to the way the page was structured; big radius buttons, dividing lines, gaps in the list and so on. Now it's as if Tor is hidden in the list and it doesn't stick out. That's my view . Or is Tor being hidden, a very subtle AirVPN technical joke? Lastly, when trying out the speedtest on the site, it just says "NaN". What's this? NA for Not Available would make sense, but NaN? I have to re-try the test a few times until it stops saying it and does the test. My speeds are still very slow, but I think that's more to do with my line or something. Thank you. Very good work so far, do keep it up !

Well to be fair, wasn't that great, giganerd. The plot just wasn't very original and quite frankly, only Game of Thrones can get away with killing off so many lead characters.​ ​But back on topic. ​ ​It's sad to see people leave the Tor project, considering how important it is. But Jacob isn't the only one to leave, as Lucky Green left too. I wonder how this will impact the project. I guess you can have the best technology in the world and it won't matter if you can simply make the people running it, quit.

Make sure to not forward the same ports on your router as you do in the client area, as you will expose yourself to correlation attacks then. It's also recommended that you pick a high port number, instead of the low one you currently picked. You go to your torrent client, pick a port and then put that port number into the "Local Port" field on AirVPNs site. Then you add it. With NL on, do check your firewall isn't blocking your torrent client as well. ​

Wow look like a lot of work to set it up simply for torrenting. I just set up Tixati and disabled DHT, PEX and Peer Discovery Also NAT-PMP and UPNP with Randomize port disabled. Then I set the port forwarding from AirVPN to my Tixati. and match that TCP and UDP port to that. I assumed I am all set and secured. Also I did increase the buffer size. Do I need to follow that guide to get more out of it for paranoid users or it just simply a suggestion? You don't need to, if it works for you already. That guide attempts to cover a lot of ground as you can see; differnet OS's, different software and so forth. I do recommend that you download the test torrent on ipleak.net to make sure your IP is hidden, as this is ostensibly the most important thing. After that comes speed & convenience, as well as any additional tweaks that you think make things better, such as increasing the global amount of connections to 1000 and some of the remaining slots to values like 200 each, since the defaults in qBittorent are quite low. You can also refer to my own guide, wherein there's a guide section filled with various other useful posts from around the forums. If you're really worried about security, you should furthermore try to avoid closed-source & proprietary software; I believe Tixati is proprietary. But this is up to you.

@Owl I get what you mean. However I believe that it has been shown that the speed differences between some of the best forms of encryption and some of the worse ones, are pretty negligible. I see what you mean about options and that's fair. However if protecting beginners was the objective, then in my mind, the best form of encryption should be the default, so that you can let the users "mess it up" individually, instead of messing it up for everyone and then hoping a few savvy users will notice and then correct it. I'm talking about stuff like AES 128-bit being the default (I believe), instead of AES 256. Because really, I doubt that most casual users would even notice whether something is using OpenVPN or PPTP; to them, it's just another techno-babble acronym which *does something* and lets them watch Netflix. But again, different values and different goals I suppose. @soupy Network Lock won't kill the application itself, such as qBittorent, if the connection drops. But it will kill the connection and thus stop qBittorent from both up and downloading, if that's what you mean. Which is just as good. Just make sure to bind qBittorent to the VPN interface in question, in the advanced settings ^^. Remember to sort your servers based on "Speed" or "Latency" in the Eddie client, depending on what you need and increase the send & receive buffers to 256kb each. You may like this guide: https://airvpn.org/topic/9491-guide-to-setting-up-vpn-just-for-torrenting-on-windows/

Hello ! I get what you mean. You might as well start torrenting, if it becomes too big a problem for you. AirVPN allows it. I can show you how, if you don't know how.

Hello ! I suppose you didn't notice that the last post on this thread was from last year. You'd best not necro a thread so old, without a great reason. In this case, the problem had already been solved by Staff; but thanks for your input

@NoiselessOwl Your English is just fine I must say . Thanks for sharing your experience with ExpressVPN. I was curious. The PIA client doesn't allow you to change any options while you're connected to a server, last I saw, lol. If there's anything Air is good at though, it must be options options options. I suspect a lot of VPNs sort of forget about website security and privacy as well. @soupy By the way, Welcome to AirVPN! If you have any questions or issues, feel free to ask

Well I think that's silly, unless.... You take a look at the media landscape. I don't think it's unreasonable, for instance, to have reservations against how the big media companies act. After all, if this entire copyright issue was an isolated one, then maybe it wouldn't matter. But the fact of the matter is, it affects societies around the world quite a lot, when lobbyists from the Entertainment Industry affect new laws in countries across the world. Leading to, in no particular order, things such as: ​Increased surveillance. Both on the internet and off. Meaning it increasingly becomes a human rights issue, as surveillance impacts democracy, which impacts how we live.​Increased restrictions on devices which we are supposed to own, because we bought them & when we didn't buy them, we use them; such as the software in all manner of trains, vehicles, powergrids and more. DRM, in other words, which if nothing else, makes "closedness" acceptable and even expected, instead of openness.​Increased levels of resources expended by societies to police these things. Meaning that you're diverting likely limited resources away from dangerous crime, to copyright crime. Such as when a guy in Sweden was apparently arrested for running a free Swedish subtitling website, where volunteers could add subtitles for various movies. You'd think this would be in the interest of the rights holders, as it's basically free-localization and thus more people can get word of their movies and perhaps move to buy them. But nope.​Increased or potentially increased, levels of corruption; it's very easy to pay off a Politician or some other high-up figure to back the cause of the Entertainment Industry.​Decreased ease with which people from all over the world can get access to culture, knowledge & different points of view. After all, soon you might require a login for the web; they'd surely like that. ​​Decreased user-friendliness, such as when DRM becomes so restrictive that pirates have an easier time playing a game than someone who actually bought it.​Increased risk for the users. The Sony example is good; Sony shipped CDs which had malware on them, in an attempt to control its property.​So I have to say, whether ideologically rooted or not, there's at least some pragmatically-oriented things which become objectively worse, if everyone simply complies with the wishes of the Entertainment Industry and their copyright wishes; at least for everyone else who doesn't happen to be a part of the 10% perhaps. It's not just about movies or songs or games. It's fundamentally more about who has control over how we choose to live. How for instance, can it be, that it's so difficult to get access to hardware which doesn't spy on you or is otherwise closed? Well I'm sure that one of the reasons is that the rights of corporations are valued more than the rights of individuals and societies. So I think while "piracy" gets a lot of attention, the issue is larger still and is just another cog in a larger battle.

Hurray! That calls for celebration lol. Please feel free to ask again or PM me if there's anything more I or we can do for you :]. Took longer than usual hahaha. Have a good day!

No the Servers were not seized but the provider for the servers did hand over access to them. And in that they were greatly compromised as there were password files and all sorts unsecured available for them. You are allowed to have your opinions of course as anybody, but in saying parasite you are calling a big portion of AirVPN users parasites as many of us pirate and it may not always be for copyright evading, many of us do not live in the United States for one and have to use piracy as a means to get tv shows and movies we would like to see especially now that Netflix is blocking VPNs Pirate? Now now, what happened to file-sharing

Maybe you'll like this.

Eden said it. ​Which is also a good time to put out a reminder that not even zhang888 represents AirVPN opinion or anything like that: Only the Staff account does.​With all respect to zhang of course . I'd be flattered if he thought I was good enough to be an Air employee though, haha. ​

Which two employees?

Hello ! ​I think if you're looking for privacy/security, AirVPN wins hands down. Feel free to refer to my guide, to get general questions answered. You may also be interested in this subforum, wherein other VPNs are compared to AirVPN . If there's a feature you think Torguard has but AirVPN hasn't, you could, after searching for it first, post a thread. Then the community will weigh in on how good, useful and safe the feature is and why it may or may not be used by AirVPN. Should prove enlightening.

Although it should also be said that how encryption is implemented and what sort of standards are followed, are equally vital; as they've been the weak points used to undermine encryption . Sort of like it's no use having the worlds best door if the window is open or the keys are hanging from the door knob, etc. etc. Also, the phrase you're looking for is "the heat death of the Universe", not Galaxy. I only care to point this out to you, because I know you're geeky enough to care about such details lmao <3.

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Welcome to the club bruh ​ . If you have other questions, don't hesitate to ask. Enjoy the ride.

@NaDre That last line was brilliant. Idealism and outrage lol. Genius. But it's funny the gizmodo link is like "cybercriminals can't hide" and it's like you want to tell them.... But he wasn't even trying to hide lol.

Just keep in mind there's various ways to optimize things. For the OP, it was switching to the Eddie client. For you, it might be increasing the send & receive buffer sizes and so forth. AirVPN has a speedtest in the client area by the way, which can show you both the in and out tunnel speeds of the server you're connected to. But again, it's what you want out of your VPN. If you're just looking for a "netflix vpn" for instance, then Air likely isn't ideal. However if you're looking for a VPN with real attention to and knowledge about privacy & security, this is likely one of the better, if not the best VPN around for that. Of course, we're naturally "biased" by being users of the service in question, but I'm sure that once you've made your own comparisons you'll arrive at the same conclusions. If in doubt on the security front, please feel free to refer to pages like this . If you've got other questions or concerns, feel free to ask here, PM me or check out my new users guide in my signature, where many things are both explained and referenced directly. Take care

According to your profile, you've just signed up today. I have to say that you don't come across as being all that patient; you've only just signed up today and are evidently having issues, but seemingly not too eager to solve those issues in order to potentially achieve better speeds. I mean, you're posting IN a thread which started out with the OP having severe speed issues and then resolving them; nearly maxing out his connection, while using a VPN. So I have to respectfully say, that unless you're willing to be a little more patient and actually provide us with some information we can use (such as your logs), then perhaps this service isn't for you . You'll have to decide what you value most: Speed or security (with potentially better or equal speeds as well - because AirVPNs infrastructure is far from inferior).

No other program can access the net, if the VPN connection drops