Staff

Hello!
 
By default, all of your system traffic is routed inside the VPN tunnel once your system is connected to the VPN itself.
 
If we understand correctly the problem, you would need to have only some traffic to certain web sites routed outside tunnel, so that those web sites see your real IP address and your traffic is not encrypted by the tunnel (i.e. not tunneled at all)?
 
If so (but please make sure that we understood correctly!) you can do so in Eddie client menu "AirVPN" -> "Preferences" -> "Routes". Make sure that the combo box "Not specified routes go:" is set to "Inside the VPN tunnel". Then add in the window (by clicking the "+" icon) all the IP addresses of those web sites for which you wish the traffic is not tunneled. Action for them is "Outside the VPN tunnel".
 
WARNING: all traffic to those IP addresses will not be tunneled. Not only "web traffic".
 
Kind regards

Hello!
 
We would like to have the help of our fantastic community to determine the optimal value of OpenVPN buffers size in various Operating System on different lines. We have already an opinion and we are aware of some issues with all version of OpenVPN in setting the correct buffer size, which usually result in a too small buffer which causes performance hit on high throughput lines, but your help would be invaluable, because it would allow us to collect measurements from a much wider testing systems.
 
All of the above will help us determine the best approach to treat the matter both in the Configuration Generator and in Eddie, and perhaps even in our VPN servers OpenVPN daemons setup.
 
If you wish to take a role in the testings, you can measure performance with various buffer sizes when all other conditions are the same (try to take measurements with the very same speed tests, same machine load, same VPN servers and same configuration - vary only the buffers sizes for each test).
 
In order to test buffer sizes, add the following directives either to your configuration (.ovpn/.conf) OpenVPN file or in the client Custom directive field you can find in "AirVPN" -> "Preferences" -> "Advanced" -> "OVPN directives. After that, make sure to re-start the VPN connection.
 
The syntax is:
sndbuf size_in_bytes
rcvbuf size_in_bytes
 
We ask you to test first without any sndbuf and rcvbuf directive, and then with the following values for size_in_bytes:
65536
131072
262144
524288
 
For example:
sndbuf 131072
rcvbuf 131072
 
In your report, please specify your Operating System exact version, the VPN server(s) you tested with and the nominal peak bandwidth of your line. For the purposes of our test, a test in UDP is enough, but if you wish to add a test also in TCP you're of course welcome. Please test only with 1 Gbit/s servers, do not test with 100 Mbit/s servers.
 
Thanks so much in advance to all who will spend their time to perform the tests!
 
Kind regards
AirVPN Staff

Website: http://www.repubblica.it
La Repubblica, an Italian news website and streaming.

Status: OK
Routing: All servers to IT route.

Website: http://www.nbc.com/
Official NBC site for primetime, daytime and late night television shows. Television (TV) network includes soap opera, reality shows and more. Find additional information on the official NBC TV site.

Status: OK
Native: US servers.
Routing: All other servers.

Install OpenVPN for Android.Hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/schwabe/ics-openvpn Note: if you don't have access to Google Play Store, you can download "OpenVPN for Android" apk here: https://airvpn.org/repository/ics-openvpn-latest-stable.apk Launch your internet browser.NOTE: don't use the default Android browser because it has an unresolved bug.
Chrome and Opera have been tested by us and work.
Connect to AirVPN website, login and create the configuration files from our Config Generator.Choose Linux as platform (only direct TCP and UDP connections are supported) and finally click the "Generate" button to download it.
Downloaded .ovpn files may be imported directly into the application but the behavior depends on many factors (employed browser, files manager, Android version, etc).For simplicity's sake, we assume in this guide that you saved .ovpn generated files under the Download directory in the Android filesystem.
Open OpenVPN for Android and tap the top right "Import" button:
Click on the import button of the prompt dialog:
Browse to *.ovpn files:
Select your configuration of choice:
Confim the import with the top right button:
Click on the imported profile to connect:
Confirm the Android's security prompt dialog:
Wait for the bootstrap sequence:
The VPN tunnel is now established:
When you need to disconnect from the VPN click on the "Disconnect" button from the app's notification:
Confirm the prompt dialog:

Hello!
 
Today we're starting AirVPN fifth birthday celebrations!
 
From a two servers service located in one single tiny country providing a handful of Mbit/s, the baby has grown up to a wide infrastructure in 16 countries in three continents, providing now 86000 Mbit/s to tens of thousands people around the world. Quite electrifying for a service initially thought as a small experiment! Well, at least WE are electrified... you know, sometimes creators tend to overrate their creatures.
 
If you're curious to know something about a series of fortunate events which gave birth to AirVPN, have a look here: https://airvpn.org/aboutus
 
To worthily celebrate Air's fifth birthday, we're glad to inform you that starting from now we will offer a 25% discount on all plans. Hurry up, celebrations as well as this special offer will end on June the 6th, 23:59:59 UTC!
 
Kind regards and datalove
AirVPN Staff

Hello!

We regret to inform you that AirVPN is no more welcome in Leaseweb USA. On April the 1st, Leaseweb USA will terminate any agreement with us. Therefore, the following servers:

Andromedae
Arrakis
Electra
Kuma
Librae
Sirius

will be canceled. We have been working to find equal or better replacements and we have had success so far. In the last few days we have added five new 1 Gbit/s servers in Miami and in Los Angeles as you have already seen.

Furthermore, we're still working to reach an agreement with an additional provider, so we are confident that we will be able to enlarge infrastructure in the near future in different USA locations.

Kind regards and datalove
AirVPN Staff
 

Thanks!
 
Please see also the following article. It contains information unavailable to us when we first wrote the article. The whole WebRTC approach appears to have been profoundly wrong by many people in the world community.
 
http://www.clodo.it/blog/an-alternative-approach-to-so-called-webrtc-leaks
 
Kind regards

Hello!
 
Health status, reason, and entry IP added. Look at the bottom of the answer to the faq: https://airvpn.org/faq/api/

Any feedback improvement is greatly appreciated.

@mblue: We understand you fetch our API with a custom script and generate OVPN config files.
Maybe it can be interesting for our community if you explain your needs or reasons. Maybe we can improve our API or our config generator.
 
Thanks.
 
Kind regards

Hello!
 
That's correct, in that case the OpenVPN daemon sees the connection from the local stunnel or sshd.
 
Kind regards

Hello!
 
Yes, you posted it in "General & Suggestions" and we moved it here to "Reviews", a more appropriate location since it compares AirVPN with PIA. It is more likely that it gets higher visibility here, not there, and you can see that actually the debate has become hot. We like and we reserve the right to move any thread in any forum section to make the forum more readable.
 
At same time, we are pleased to see that this forum has become an attractive place for several PIA customers. Interestingly, this thread is showing some important information that PIA customers might like to consider carefully.
 
 
 
We show it because we have it. It's a matter of transparency.
 
It is not logged: it is showed in real time and stays in RAM until the client disconnects.
 
Note that contrarily to some of our competitors, we don't keep keys, user data etc. on the VPN servers. All the data are kept in backend servers which never communicates directly with clients, frontends or VPN servers. However, it is obvious that the VPN server knows the IP address a client connection is coming from: how would it communicate with the client otherwise? This is how the Internet works.
 
Additionally, you can hide your real IP address to our VPN servers, by connecting OpenVPN over a proxy (even Tor). And our client Eddie implements all of these options. It is the only free and open source VPN software that allows with a click a connection of OpenVPN over Tor even in OS X and Linux, with no requirements for any additional setup (except running Tor, of course), Virtual Machine etc. Not only these features are not implemented in our competitors software, but in most cases our competitors software, including PIA software, is closed source.
 
Hiding to the user data (that any VPN service has) could be a trick to attract less technically skilled persons, or even gullible people. It can be a marketing strategy. We don't like it and it is not compliant with our mission. https://airvpn.org/mission
 
 
If you share the connection with people you blindly trust, your concern is deeply illogical. But from your words it seems that you share your account with people you don't completely trust.
 
In this case, with AirVPN you can share your account with other people and keep control of your account: you just need to provide keys and certificates to the other persons, and keep your password for yourself. Inviolability of your Data Channel encryption is guaranteed by Diffie-Hellman exchange. In this way other people can connect to VPN servers but can't access your user control panel, can't change the password to gain total control of your panel etc. If they occupy all of your slots, you can even force a disconnection to free the slots. They can't forward ports, only you can, so that you can keep under control the most dangerous situations (example: an illegal web site "hosted" behind a VPN server). This is not possible with PIA and this is important with our service, because we have implemented a dynamic remote port forwarding system (with DDNS if you need it) which is "light-years ahead" than PIA system.
 
Anyway, it is important to underline that the account holder will be held responsible for any action of anyone using that account (assuming that PIA ToS allows this practice).
 

Note: As of 2017 AirVPN now supports 5 connections per account. But this has NOT changed our commitment to minimum allocated bandwidth. 
About 5 connections instead of 3, this is also a consequence of our commitment to minimum allocated bandwidth, which PIA does not provide. When you provide a "best effort" service without any warranty on bandwidth allocation per client, things change radically. Since AirVPN birth we have never used VPS for our VPN servers. We have dedicated servers with redundant uplink ports and bandwidth (with the exception of Hong Kong, where we were forced to accept a sufficient compromise) and PoP with tier 1-2 transit providers. Compare our servers status page with any competitor servers status page https://airvpn.org/status/ Click on the servers name to access plenty of data about them.
 
 
 
Please define properly and technically how "the security of the VPN" can be harmed by this: the point of hiding data that are anyway there, during the whole duration of a client session, is nonsensical.
 
The client just shows you the information that the VPN server has got and which it already communicates with (incidentally, very useful for other purposes); the frontend does the same. On top of that, we remind you once again that our client Eddie is free and open source, that it is totally optional to use it, and that, contrarily to the setup of most our competitors, entry-IP address and exit-IP address of VPN servers are different.
 
Kind regards

Hello!
 
Today we're starting AirVPN fifth birthday celebrations!
 
From a two servers service located in one single tiny country providing a handful of Mbit/s, the baby has grown up to a wide infrastructure in 16 countries in three continents, providing now 86000 Mbit/s to tens of thousands people around the world. Quite electrifying for a service initially thought as a small experiment! Well, at least WE are electrified... you know, sometimes creators tend to overrate their creatures.
 
If you're curious to know something about a series of fortunate events which gave birth to AirVPN, have a look here: https://airvpn.org/aboutus
 
To worthily celebrate Air's fifth birthday, we're glad to inform you that starting from now we will offer a 25% discount on all plans. Hurry up, celebrations as well as this special offer will end on June the 6th, 23:59:59 UTC!
 
Kind regards and datalove
AirVPN Staff

Hello!
 
Today we're starting AirVPN fifth birthday celebrations!
 
From a two servers service located in one single tiny country providing a handful of Mbit/s, the baby has grown up to a wide infrastructure in 16 countries in three continents, providing now 86000 Mbit/s to tens of thousands people around the world. Quite electrifying for a service initially thought as a small experiment! Well, at least WE are electrified... you know, sometimes creators tend to overrate their creatures.
 
If you're curious to know something about a series of fortunate events which gave birth to AirVPN, have a look here: https://airvpn.org/aboutus
 
To worthily celebrate Air's fifth birthday, we're glad to inform you that starting from now we will offer a 25% discount on all plans. Hurry up, celebrations as well as this special offer will end on June the 6th, 23:59:59 UTC!
 
Kind regards and datalove
AirVPN Staff

Hello!
 
Today we're starting AirVPN fifth birthday celebrations!
 
From a two servers service located in one single tiny country providing a handful of Mbit/s, the baby has grown up to a wide infrastructure in 16 countries in three continents, providing now 86000 Mbit/s to tens of thousands people around the world. Quite electrifying for a service initially thought as a small experiment! Well, at least WE are electrified... you know, sometimes creators tend to overrate their creatures.
 
If you're curious to know something about a series of fortunate events which gave birth to AirVPN, have a look here: https://airvpn.org/aboutus
 
To worthily celebrate Air's fifth birthday, we're glad to inform you that starting from now we will offer a 25% discount on all plans. Hurry up, celebrations as well as this special offer will end on June the 6th, 23:59:59 UTC!
 
Kind regards and datalove
AirVPN Staff

Hello!
 
You're right, without the option "All servers for area/region" (which we deleted for good reasons) getting all the entry-IP addresses through the CG has become a time consuming task.
 
We need to insert the following information in the "How-To" forum. We apologize for the delay and for any inconvenience.

You can resolve "server_name.airvpn.org" to get a specific server entry-IP address. Server names can be found in the "Status" page of our web site, or in the Configuration Generator.

For example, from a command line interface:
nslookup nihal.airvpn.orgto get entry-IP address of Nihal server.
 
Please resolve country_code.airvpn.org to get all the entry-IP addresses of that country VPN servers. Example:
dig @8.8.8.8 nl.airvpn.org +short(NL is the country code for the Netherlands)

or
nslookup nl.airvpn.orgYou can resolve "continent_name.airvpn.org" as well, to get the full list of entry-IP addresses of VPN servers in a continent.
 
Finally, resolve "earth.airvpn.org" to get ALL the entry-IP addresses of all the VPN servers.
 
Note: dig is not available by default on Windows, you need to install it. Alternatively, you can use nslookup, but the output of dig with the option "+short" could be easier to parse in some cases.
 
Kind regards
 

Hello!
 
Today we're starting AirVPN fifth birthday celebrations!
 
From a two servers service located in one single tiny country providing a handful of Mbit/s, the baby has grown up to a wide infrastructure in 16 countries in three continents, providing now 86000 Mbit/s to tens of thousands people around the world. Quite electrifying for a service initially thought as a small experiment! Well, at least WE are electrified... you know, sometimes creators tend to overrate their creatures.
 
If you're curious to know something about a series of fortunate events which gave birth to AirVPN, have a look here: https://airvpn.org/aboutus
 
To worthily celebrate Air's fifth birthday, we're glad to inform you that starting from now we will offer a 25% discount on all plans. Hurry up, celebrations as well as this special offer will end on June the 6th, 23:59:59 UTC!
 
Kind regards and datalove
AirVPN Staff

Hello!
 
Today we're starting AirVPN fifth birthday celebrations!
 
From a two servers service located in one single tiny country providing a handful of Mbit/s, the baby has grown up to a wide infrastructure in 16 countries in three continents, providing now 86000 Mbit/s to tens of thousands people around the world. Quite electrifying for a service initially thought as a small experiment! Well, at least WE are electrified... you know, sometimes creators tend to overrate their creatures.
 
If you're curious to know something about a series of fortunate events which gave birth to AirVPN, have a look here: https://airvpn.org/aboutus
 
To worthily celebrate Air's fifth birthday, we're glad to inform you that starting from now we will offer a 25% discount on all plans. Hurry up, celebrations as well as this special offer will end on June the 6th, 23:59:59 UTC!
 
Kind regards and datalove
AirVPN Staff

Hello!
 
Today we're starting AirVPN fifth birthday celebrations!
 
From a two servers service located in one single tiny country providing a handful of Mbit/s, the baby has grown up to a wide infrastructure in 16 countries in three continents, providing now 86000 Mbit/s to tens of thousands people around the world. Quite electrifying for a service initially thought as a small experiment! Well, at least WE are electrified... you know, sometimes creators tend to overrate their creatures.
 
If you're curious to know something about a series of fortunate events which gave birth to AirVPN, have a look here: https://airvpn.org/aboutus
 
To worthily celebrate Air's fifth birthday, we're glad to inform you that starting from now we will offer a 25% discount on all plans. Hurry up, celebrations as well as this special offer will end on June the 6th, 23:59:59 UTC!
 
Kind regards and datalove
AirVPN Staff

Hello!
 
Today we're starting AirVPN fifth birthday celebrations!
 
From a two servers service located in one single tiny country providing a handful of Mbit/s, the baby has grown up to a wide infrastructure in 16 countries in three continents, providing now 86000 Mbit/s to tens of thousands people around the world. Quite electrifying for a service initially thought as a small experiment! Well, at least WE are electrified... you know, sometimes creators tend to overrate their creatures.
 
If you're curious to know something about a series of fortunate events which gave birth to AirVPN, have a look here: https://airvpn.org/aboutus
 
To worthily celebrate Air's fifth birthday, we're glad to inform you that starting from now we will offer a 25% discount on all plans. Hurry up, celebrations as well as this special offer will end on June the 6th, 23:59:59 UTC!
 
Kind regards and datalove
AirVPN Staff

Hello!
 
Today we're starting AirVPN fifth birthday celebrations!
 
From a two servers service located in one single tiny country providing a handful of Mbit/s, the baby has grown up to a wide infrastructure in 16 countries in three continents, providing now 86000 Mbit/s to tens of thousands people around the world. Quite electrifying for a service initially thought as a small experiment! Well, at least WE are electrified... you know, sometimes creators tend to overrate their creatures.
 
If you're curious to know something about a series of fortunate events which gave birth to AirVPN, have a look here: https://airvpn.org/aboutus
 
To worthily celebrate Air's fifth birthday, we're glad to inform you that starting from now we will offer a 25% discount on all plans. Hurry up, celebrations as well as this special offer will end on June the 6th, 23:59:59 UTC!
 
Kind regards and datalove
AirVPN Staff

Hello!
 
Today we're starting AirVPN fifth birthday celebrations!
 
From a two servers service located in one single tiny country providing a handful of Mbit/s, the baby has grown up to a wide infrastructure in 16 countries in three continents, providing now 86000 Mbit/s to tens of thousands people around the world. Quite electrifying for a service initially thought as a small experiment! Well, at least WE are electrified... you know, sometimes creators tend to overrate their creatures.
 
If you're curious to know something about a series of fortunate events which gave birth to AirVPN, have a look here: https://airvpn.org/aboutus
 
To worthily celebrate Air's fifth birthday, we're glad to inform you that starting from now we will offer a 25% discount on all plans. Hurry up, celebrations as well as this special offer will end on June the 6th, 23:59:59 UTC!
 
Kind regards and datalove
AirVPN Staff

Hello!
 
Today we're starting AirVPN fifth birthday celebrations!
 
From a two servers service located in one single tiny country providing a handful of Mbit/s, the baby has grown up to a wide infrastructure in 16 countries in three continents, providing now 86000 Mbit/s to tens of thousands people around the world. Quite electrifying for a service initially thought as a small experiment! Well, at least WE are electrified... you know, sometimes creators tend to overrate their creatures.
 
If you're curious to know something about a series of fortunate events which gave birth to AirVPN, have a look here: https://airvpn.org/aboutus
 
To worthily celebrate Air's fifth birthday, we're glad to inform you that starting from now we will offer a 25% discount on all plans. Hurry up, celebrations as well as this special offer will end on June the 6th, 23:59:59 UTC!
 
Kind regards and datalove
AirVPN Staff

Hello!
 
Today we're starting AirVPN fifth birthday celebrations!
 
From a two servers service located in one single tiny country providing a handful of Mbit/s, the baby has grown up to a wide infrastructure in 16 countries in three continents, providing now 86000 Mbit/s to tens of thousands people around the world. Quite electrifying for a service initially thought as a small experiment! Well, at least WE are electrified... you know, sometimes creators tend to overrate their creatures.
 
If you're curious to know something about a series of fortunate events which gave birth to AirVPN, have a look here: https://airvpn.org/aboutus
 
To worthily celebrate Air's fifth birthday, we're glad to inform you that starting from now we will offer a 25% discount on all plans. Hurry up, celebrations as well as this special offer will end on June the 6th, 23:59:59 UTC!
 
Kind regards and datalove
AirVPN Staff

Hello!
 
Today we're starting AirVPN fifth birthday celebrations!
 
From a two servers service located in one single tiny country providing a handful of Mbit/s, the baby has grown up to a wide infrastructure in 16 countries in three continents, providing now 86000 Mbit/s to tens of thousands people around the world. Quite electrifying for a service initially thought as a small experiment! Well, at least WE are electrified... you know, sometimes creators tend to overrate their creatures.
 
If you're curious to know something about a series of fortunate events which gave birth to AirVPN, have a look here: https://airvpn.org/aboutus
 
To worthily celebrate Air's fifth birthday, we're glad to inform you that starting from now we will offer a 25% discount on all plans. Hurry up, celebrations as well as this special offer will end on June the 6th, 23:59:59 UTC!
 
Kind regards and datalove
AirVPN Staff

Hello!
 
Today we're starting AirVPN fifth birthday celebrations!
 
From a two servers service located in one single tiny country providing a handful of Mbit/s, the baby has grown up to a wide infrastructure in 16 countries in three continents, providing now 86000 Mbit/s to tens of thousands people around the world. Quite electrifying for a service initially thought as a small experiment! Well, at least WE are electrified... you know, sometimes creators tend to overrate their creatures.
 
If you're curious to know something about a series of fortunate events which gave birth to AirVPN, have a look here: https://airvpn.org/aboutus
 
To worthily celebrate Air's fifth birthday, we're glad to inform you that starting from now we will offer a 25% discount on all plans. Hurry up, celebrations as well as this special offer will end on June the 6th, 23:59:59 UTC!
 
Kind regards and datalove
AirVPN Staff