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Hello ! As a translation of what zhang said, put the number you wish to forward, into the "local port" field in the port-forwarding area. Then just click the add button; unless you know TCP or UDP specifically is needed. Then a number will automatically be generated in the biggest box at the top .

Actually, I found a very nice little doc you can watch, that will explain it.

Good question. I only know that the Eddie client is open-source, but I don't know if it would meet all of the FSF requirements, since they're pretty hardcore. However I'm sure AirVPN wouldn't fail completely. But you know, that's something we could perhaps find out, if AirVPN supports them! Open-software, whether it's called "Open-Source" or "Free Software", directly helps AirVPN accomplish its mission, if the software is truly open to people to share and inspect. @giganerd :* I forgive you. I've waited long enough, so I had to take matters into my own hands Haha

Sadly not quite the whole truth. Edward Snowden revealed the world-wide spying conducted by many Western countries There's many ways to side-step any such rules, whether constitutional or not The FBI and other similar institutions have proven time and again that they're willing to spy on anyone and everythingThe problem is manifold. For instance, how do you hold an organisation accountable for its actions, if its actions are kept secret? Ah, you just make it mandatory to get a warrant, right? Well, the FISA court solved that problem for a lot of cases; it's a rubber-stamp closed-court system, wherein virtually all warrants are granted. Nothing is turned down. How do you prevent legal-loophooles and "whoopsie" mistakes? For instance, if the NSA collects data on you, it could simply say it was an accident; but how can you be sure the data is deleted? And then there's other loopholes; what do you think "cooperation" means in an intelligence context for instance? Sharing of information. In other words, one of their favoured ways of bypassing local restrictions on data-collection, is to simply have an agency from a different country and thus outside the local jurisdiction, do the collecting. Then the collected information is simply shared. Both agencies can then claim they didn't collect information on their own citizens, while also claming they're working together with others. In short, you don't have to commit crimes to be spied on. In fact, it's a bit of a catch 22. Because if you don't do anythig to resist, you can be sure you'll be spied on. While if you do do somethingto resist, such as using a VPN, you could just as well be flagged as suspicious and thereby warranting even more surveillance. This is the whole problem: mass-surveillance. You spy on everybody in order to make sure nothing slips through the net, but in doing so, you end up compromising essential human rights and democratic liberties, which SHOULD be protected. It's a huge problem. So please, don't have the false sense of security that you're protected because of laws X, Y and Z

If you have other questions, please don't hesitate to ask

Hello ! Welcome to AirVPN. Simply open your client, Eddie, click the servers tab and look for the american flag. Then you simply double click on the desired server; they each have different names. Oh and if you have any other questions, feel free to ask here or PM me!

Haha, are you a web developer too zhang?! I think this is the first time I see you use a smiley.

Hello ! That's so cool! Not an excercise I think you'd learn on a web dev course lol Thanks for sharing.

Yes you're right Staff, thanks for pointing that out as well . I forgot to highlight that it shouldn't be permanent.

Hello ! That's nice. OP in the future, please use spoiler tags. But more importantly right now, click the "Mark As Solution" button in the bottom right of your last post please . That'll help.

Bruh, I gotta repay my life-debt to you somehow, lol !

Hello ! So they let me out of my cell today, which means I have a lot of pent-up nitpicking energy stored, haha ​At the bottom of this post, there's a respectful critique of how Air handles the explaining of this service to newcomers and my proposed solution. My main arguments for improving the Air service are: - This post about new-people seemingly not feeling welcome. - And this post about Community Mods & more interaction from Air. As the subtext to this forum reads: "Have some feedback and input to share? Don't be shy and drop us a note. We want to hear from you and strive to make our service better and more user friendly for our guests and members alike." So as they say, Challenge Accepted, Good Sir. Time to unleash my inner OCD pokemon! - Introduction & explaining the madness I'd like to post a series of things which I think need some changes; such as the spelling & grammar of various posts. I understand if English isn't the native language of various Staff members and that's fine; that's why I'd like to lend a helping hand. I don't know if it would be wiser to post all this in a support ticket, because it can amount to a lot of content and perhaps by making it public, more people can contribute and then we can keep it nicely organised in one place. I realise it can sound very condescending, patronizing and/or rude to suggest changes in spelling & grammar, so to be clear, it's just because I currently have an urge to help out; I have the utmost respect for AirVPN Staff & those which contribute positively to the community :]. Why does it matter how things are spelled and such? Because appearances, user-friendliness & attention to detail matter, both in terms of technical subjects and non-technical subjects. When I first started, I thought some of the how-tos could use some slight changes, because it was sometimes massively confusing to juggle the technical explanations with the sometimes unclear or vague wording that accompanied them. I like to think that it's AirVPNs attention to security & privacy details which make it so great; so why should the presentational details of the site be any different? :]. I hope it'll be satisfactory & easy for the Air Staff to just copy/paste the corrected texts in, if they decide to make use of them. I'll of course not change the spirit/content of anything. If you have any input, please feel free to make a post. These are just corrections based on what I think sounds right; we're all different :]. I'd like it if the Staff could clarify something in the "About Us" section. Blue text = My changes/corrections. (Sometimes the original isn't wrong, but could just be clearer, hence changes). Red text = The item should be deleted. (In my humble opinion, thank you) Main AirVPN Pages This should cover the entire AirVPN site, except individual posts in the FAQ and the much-dread ToS - Mission Page Corrections - Technical Specs Page Corrections - About Us Page Corrections I'm not sure what was trying to be expressed at the bottom of the article regarding "harsh contrasts against a project of sharing data, etc. etc." Can someone elaborate? Was there some sort of cross-VPN provider cooperation, wherein user data was or was going to be shared? Or was it meant to say that AirVPN was the opposite of all the other providers? Also, I suggest removing the very last bit "(we'll have some news on that probably within the first half of 2013)." since that's quite old and perhaps shouldn't be on an "About Us" page . - Plans Page Corrections "Accepted" sounds much more natural to me than "Allowed" Payment Processors. Oh and the period at the end of Free Trial access should go away too, in order to conform with the other headings. Also, on the Enter page, it's not called OS X anymore, as Apple renamed it MacOS. - Ping Matrix Page Corrections I'm not sure I understand this one correctly. Please say so, if that's the case. - Top Users Page Corrections - Config Generator "More Help" Page Corrections I'm not sure what's meant by "unique download" here. Unique zip archives for each file maybe? - Websites Support Page Corrections - Databases Page Corrections - Client Software Platforms / Environment Pages Corrections - Privacy Notice and Terms Page Corrections I assume it really was "extra-EU" and not "extra-UE". If not, what's UE? I hope it's okay I skip the ToS Explanatory Posts Here's where I would like to say something. A slight critique. I'm really glad that Air Staff have taken the time to put up such nice FAQs.I'm likewise also really glad that they're extremely knowledgeable and can explain things in a technical way.However... As I also said in my new users guide, the main problem with Air is that it's too technical, when it's not needed. This is GREAT for IT-people, but not everyone else.I mean, it's fine to be technical. But I would like to see it either be "toned down" a little in some places, such as the FAQs, where it's very likely that new people will go or:Alternatively, one could provide non-technical explanations alongside the technical ones. Perhaps in spoilers? I LOVE spoilers lol.Case in point, in the FAQ titled "What is a VPN?". The explanations are great and for technical people, it's borderline pornography. But really, if someone doesn't know what a VPN even is, what are the odds of them understanding what things like this mean: I genuinely think that most new users, especially those who don't have an interest in IT, will have a seizure. An FAQ is, I think, meant to leave people with less questions, not more of them. After reading that, I'm sure many would be asking things like: What's a default gateway push? Is it dangerous?What's encapsulation?What's UDP & TCP?Which stream? Twitch.com?HTTP? Socks? Proxy???I of course don't want to sacrifice form or function for the sake of making things ultra-easy for everyone. We can hang a sign on the door saying "Brain Required" if you wish. But it has to be said that attention to things like this, helps us all in one way or another. Air draws in more customers, which means one of the best VPNs gets to keep running. More people see what a quality VPN service is like & perhaps more services like Air will appear. Likewise, more people protected on the internet is a good thing in general. Plus, all the hardwork & passion Air Staff put into this excellent service, won't mean a thing if no one knows how to use it; that's just a fact really. Our aim, in my view, should be to make the service as welcoming as possible, without sacrificing the aforementioned form or function; which is also one of the biggest problems with modern encryption & thus a barrier to mass-adoption. After all, then there'd be no excuse for people to not use AirVPN and we can finally call them on their bluff eh - Original Text - Attempted Example Of Simplified Text What do you think? Sure, it's missing some details and maybe it's not all that accurate, but if it gets the main point across, so what? As I said, we could just make spoilers for both versions. If Air wants, I'll gladly help make more of such explanations for the other things, since I'm quite good at doing so; mainly because I hardly understand it myself lmao, but shhh Thank you for reading and as always, Thank you to AirVPN & Staff for providing this excellent service, as well as the AirVPN community for keeping this place going strong ! I want to know one thing: has Air got any plans on translating the service into different languages? I think it would be so great if they crowd-sourced this. Anyhow, if you spot anything I missed or disagree with a correction, feel free to tell me! Thanks. Now if you'll excuse me, my bed misses me, lol.

Hello ! If you take a look at the bottom of the page on ipleak.net there's a link to a Chrome extension that allows you to block WebRTC You'd get the same leak in Firefox, until it gets plugged; also something you can see on ipleak.

Aha, how excellent, you're most welcome. Now if you would please open Eddie, click the Air logo in the top left, then go to Preferences. In there, go to the Advanced tab and then DNS & set it to "Disabled" instead of Automatic, to see if that helps. Do also uncheck the checkbox right underneath. Naturally, make sure that network lock is not on. Then hit save and see if it works. If it does, then there should be a button at the bottom right of my post which lets you mark one of my posts as the solution, so that others can more readily find the solution as well.

Hello ! Why do you think you need a statement, when it's so obvious that Netflix is making a concerted effort to block VPNs & similar technologies? It's only logical that if Air doesn't think most users can reliably reach a given site, that they remove it from the list of supported sites. But you don't need their tacit agreement that things aren't working, instead, you could simply check one of the many existing threads on the topic. Furthermore, if Air had to give a statement for every blocked site or even just every time Netflix re-affirmed how hostile it is towards consumers, then AirVPN would have to shut down and dedicate all staff to a 24/7 statement service, just to keep up. There's really few reasons to start yet another thread on this, when another thread on the same topic exists on the same page. It won't make things go faster or make things easier on Air. If everyone stuck to posting in the above thread, Air would still notice. Just look: https://airvpn.org/topic/18078-usa-netflix-doesnt-work/?p=42919 https://airvpn.org/topic/18026-netflix-blocked/?hl=netflix https://airvpn.org/topic/16976-netflix-proxy-detected/?hl=netflix https://airvpn.org/topic/16898-netflix-detected-proxy-on-merope/?hl=netflix https://airvpn.org/topic/16845-netflix-us-blocked-on-firetv-stick/?hl=netflix https://airvpn.org/topic/16838-netflix-blocked-again/?hl=netflix https://airvpn.org/topic/16611-cannot-connect-to-netflix-us/?hl=netflix As you can see there's several netflix posts already. Try to search first, there's very little reason to make more and more of the same topic. You can be sure Air is doing everything it can to help you/us out :].

Hello ! Are you using network lock?

Ouch. Well curiosity is a good thing, so don't lose that .

I appreciate the support! It's hard(er) to run a secure setup if organisations like these aren't supported, IMO.

That's a tall order. The problem is that even if you ran Linux, there's still software which runs on the various pieces of hardware in the laptop. This software is called firmware. In principle, we don't know what this firmware does, if it's not open. Maybe you should take a crack at Linux anyhow, it's not too late. You could download a distro like Ubuntu or Linux Mint and burn it to a CD. This CD could then be used as a "live CD", which would let you try out the OS without actually installing it. Alternatively, you could download virtualbox and run a Linux distro in there. You don't have to be a command-line guru to use it. There's options to buy laptops pre-installed with Linux Heck, you don't even need to install anything. You can just try it in your browser! As the OP said, providers like ThinkPenguin provide laptops which are perhaps less prone to snooping. But really, it's kind of an oxymoron to not want snooping, yet insist on running Windows, sorry. Windows is governed by Microsoft & is closed-source. MS being MS, it most likely has backdoors; just check Windows 10 I recommend you watch this.

Hello ! Doesn't Air have any protection against these attacks? And is there any info on how big it was?

Hello ! Have you tried going to Control Panel\System and Security\Windows Firewall\Restore defaults ? In order to reset your firewall rules. Otherwise do feel free to post your logs in spoiler tags. Also, did you try resetting both IP & DNS settings to obtain automatically, on all interfaces/network adapters?

Oh damn, that's excellent. It's quite funny when reading articles on VPNs and they're like "Your speed will suffer" and then you do a speedtest here and it's almost better than your non-VPN speeds lol. I don't know which version of IE you use, but it's generally a hated browser; especially old versions. In the old days, it was a complete nightmare coding for IE. Windows 10 has the next evolution of IE, called Edge. Maybe you'd like that. Although you'll rarely get much support for using any browser from MS I think. Most people are either firmly on Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox these days. For the maximum amount of privacy, it should go without saying that Google should be avoided whenever possible, generally speaking . You could set ipleak.net as your FF start page too if you want, so that you'll be able to confirm everything is likely working fine; just a suggestion. Enjoy.

Hello ! OpenVPN on routers is quite taxing, so it's really important to have good hardware. Do you really need more than 3 devices? Anyway, they say that if you use a https://www.zotac.com/us/product/mini_pcs/zbox-ci323-nano with pfSense, you can get fantastic performance; better than most commercial routers.

Hello ! Would AirVPN be interested in supporting the Electronic Frontier Foundation and/or the Free Software Foundation? No specific project or technology as such. It seems a bit remiss of AirVPN to not support these, in my view . About The EFF The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development. We work to ensure that rights and freedoms are enhanced and protected as our use of technology grows. Even in the fledgling days of the Internet, EFF understood that protecting access to developing technology was central to advancing freedom for all. In the years that followed, EFF used our fiercely independent voice to clear the way for open source software, encryption, security research, file sharing tools, and a world of emerging technologies. Today, EFF uses the unique expertise of leading technologists, activists, and attorneys in our efforts to defend free speech online, fight illegal surveillance, advocate for users and innovators, and support freedom-enhancing technologies. Together, we forged a vast network of concerned members and partner organizations spanning the globe. EFF advises policymakers and educates the press and the public through comprehensive analysis, educational guides, activist workshops, and more. EFF empowers hundreds of thousands of individuals through our Action Center and has become a leading voice in online rights debates. EFF is a donor-funded US 501©(3) nonprofit organization that depends on your support to continue fighting for users. About The FSF The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom. We defend the rights of all software users. As our society grows more dependent on computers, the software we run is of critical importance to securing the future of a free society. Free software is about having control over the technology we use in our homes, schools and businesses, where computers work for our individual and communal benefit, not for proprietary software companies or governments who might seek to restrict and monitor us. The Free Software Foundation exclusively uses free software to perform its work. The Free Software Foundation is working to secure freedom for computer users by promoting the development and use of free (as in freedom) software and documentation—particularly the GNU operating system—and by campaigning against threats to computer user freedom like Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) and software patents. Why should AirVPN do it? Because: Both organisations routinely make new technologies available which help to enhance peoples freedoms. Not just software-wise either, but hardware too.Both organisations comply with AirVPNs mission on multiple levels. Many kinds of freedom form the basis of free societies. Free speech, freedom of assembly, etc. So what about free software/privacy?The EFF fights the required legal battles that come before or after new technology or laws that limit, constrict and/or endanger us all in more ways than one.The FSF provides a completely different philosophy/approach to hardware and software; namely that it should be completely free. Not proprietary & closed. Eddie being open helps us all.Support will also mean even more support for software like HTTPS Everywhere, which both the EFF & The Tor Project made. AirVPN already supports The Tor Project, so why not add the EFF? Because the FSF is a hardcore supporter of free software & freedom of software provides a range of benefits for everyone: As a software developer, free software lets you build and improve on the work of others, as part of a social community — built on the principles of sharing. As an artist, you can do things with free software that proprietary software does not allow. All free software allows you to use it for any purpose. As a user, free software removes you from the power struggle of proprietary software, where you are able to help yourself and are not dependent on a single developer or company to help you. As a student, you can study and modify the software you use, learning from and enhancing the tools that you use for education. I think it's one thing to support various technical means of opposing state & company control, closedness and censorship, but quite another thing to oppose these things through legal means. Because while technical tools are great, one could argue that we shouldn't, in an ideal world, even need them. But we do, because various laws force us to, if we want to maintain a shred of privacy and security. But whether or not these organisations do battle legally, they both still provide a wealth of different tools and technologies which help advance AirVPNs mission. So in a sense, it's like a package deal ! Even the best VPN in the galaxy won't have much to say in the face of running on a compromised system. Even the best combination of security practices, software & hardware can come under attack when governments give themselves permission to do things that are illegal & immoral for everyone else to do. In addition, supporting organisations which fight the necessary legal battles, could perhaps have direct implications for AirVPNs server locations, as Air writes: Of course there's many parameters to take into account when it comes to server locations; not least cost & infrastructure availability. But I'm sure we can agree that it's easier to set up a server in a country that doesn't have laws or systems hostile to AirVPNs mission statement; perhaps one of the major reasons we haven't had many Iranian and Mainland Chinese servers, hmm? For a primer on what the FSF is really about, you can watch this. Thank you :]

Hello ! Slight thread necro here, but I think it's worth it, due to the good content OP posted, which deserves more attention. I just wanted to add to it: A security researcher found exploitable SMM code in Lenovo Thinkpads. The problem is: this stuff runs like 2 layers below the BIOS. Meaning that virusscans, changing the OS and even firewall/networking rules don't work. So even if Lenovo did fix these things, it still shows the importance of fighting for our hardware & software freedoms.