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In China, Airvpn can works well? Some one uses it in China? I want to use a VPN for long terms and don't expect it is blocked.

Hello! If you run Eddie's uninstaller script for Windows, it does not remove the configuration file in the user's directory. It leaves both the directory and the configuration file inside it, including default.profile. This is intentional as uninstalling a software does not mean purging all the configuration files that can be preserved. No erratic behavior has been detected, it's just a script. This would be catastrophic in many cases. Firefox, Thunderbird, GitLab, Microsoft SQL SRS and probably hundreds of other programs do not support inverse migration (downgrade) in general, exactly for this problem. In case of a downgrade for which the configuration file becomes incompatible with the older version, deleting or overwriting the configuration files etc. will cause serious or, in case of absence of a recent backup, even dramatic inconvenience to the user. EDIT - NOTE BY THE DECREPIT FOUNDER In Eddie, profile preservation has an excellent side effect. The profile (encrypted or not) includes the client keys and server information, and Eddie reads them locally when it can't access the bootstrap servers. When you are in a restrictive network, or typically in specific countries (Iran, China, Russia...) the bootstrap servers or the protocol to reach them are not infrequently blocked. In such cases the user must first find another connection method, establish the connection and only then let Eddie contact the bootstrap servers to download the information that will be valuable for future connections. This is a once and for all operation that may be reproducible and performed in the face of potentially great adversity, so minimization of such a requirement is good. If we want to have a sad contest to see who’s the most decrepit, we have a good competitor. The founder of AirVPN built his first natural language parser in Assembly and BASIC in 1983 with a 1,500-word dictionary, pushing the limits of an 8-bit computer (a Commodore 64). Thirty-five years ago, he was already at CERN with Tim Berners-Lee who was creating HTML and testing and improving HTTP... But rest assured, he’s not the one working on Windows - it gives him an allergic reaction. 🤣 You can bet that he was behind the earlier caustic jokes about Windows. 🤔 Kind regards

Hey there, Taiwan is a provincial administrative region of China, an inalienable part of China’s territory. But when I checked my IP on ipleak.net, I saw Taiwan was shown with those outdated flags, which is totally wrong. These flags don’t reflect the fact that Taiwan belongs to China. Using them misrepresents Taiwan’s status and goes against the One - China principle. It’s really important to fix this mistake. Please correct the display and stop using such wrong flags. Let’s make sure the info about Taiwan is right, in line with the One - China principle. Thanks for handling this!

Over 500 GB of source code, work logs, and internal communication records were leaked, revealing details of the GFW’s research, development, and operations. https://gfw.report/blog/geedge_and_mesa_leak/en/

Hello! I thought it was time to try and collect some of the wisdom floating around and see if we can't create a single thread for solving some of the most common and annoying repeat-issues. So how about it ! I define "common problems" as: if I'm getting a deja-vu every third time I post . Staff will have broken the Matrix by this point. Each problem will have its own headline and then with any number of solution-oriented links appended underneath. For this reason, this grand list isn't final and is meant to be updated continually. Naturally, the higher the link number for a solution, the more obscure the solutions are probably getting. Warning: solutions aren't guaranteed. As with anything technical, trial and error is a core skill Problem: Bootstrap Failed.Solutions:https://airvpn.org/topic/30824-bootstrap-failed-since-a-week/Problem: No Internet connection after shutting down AirVPN and/or can only use Internet while AirVPN is on.Solutions:https://airvpn.org/topic/14829-can-only-connect-to-the-internet-browser-through-airvpn/?do=findComment&comment=30509 Windows only: https://airvpn.org/topic/13584-connection-problem-when-not-using-airvpn/?p=38800 MacOS only: https://airvpn.org/topic/27993-cant-connect-to-internet-without-using-airvpn/ https://airvpn.org/topic/21194-virtualbox-is-this-air-vpn-also-cant-connect-internet-unless-signed-in/Problem: Cannot connect to any AirVPN server.Solutions:https://airvpn.org/topic/22140-cannot-connect-to-german-servers-anymore/ https://airvpn.org/topic/22066-cant-seem-to-connect-to-any-servers/ https://airvpn.org/topic/21418-new-to-airvpn-installed-avpn-on-surface-wwindows-10-cannot-connect-at-school-can-connect-fine-at-most-other-locations/?p=55515Problem: Issues with Curl.Solutions:https://airvpn.org/topic/27369-cannot-login-curl-is-required/Problem: Bad packet ID (may be a replay)Solutions:https://airvpn.org/topic/14094-weird-log-entries/Problem: Being censored and/or speeds being throttled/shaped by ISP or Government.Solutions:https://airvpn.org/topic/28847-connections-from-china/ Problem: MacOS client can't connect.Solutions:https://airvpn.org/topic/18251-airvpn-mac-client-problems/ Problem: Checking route IPv6 Failed.Solutions:https://airvpn.org/topic/29401-checking-route-ipv6-failed-cannot-connect-to-vpn-server-using-eddie/ Problem: Waiting for TUN/TAP to come up.Solutions:https://airvpn.org/topic/26072-route-gateway-is-not-reachable-on-any-active-network-adapters-10401/?do=findComment&comment=70761 Windows only: https://airvpn.org/topic/17440-guide-fix-for-tap-adapter-in-windows/ Windows only: https://airvpn.org/topic/30043-taptun-interface-wont-come-up/ Problem: Experiencing slow and/or fluctuating speeds in general.Solutions:https://airvpn.org/topic/30739-every-vpn-is-slow-for-me-despite-the-well-reviewed-vpns-im-trying-is-it-possible-my-isp-is-causing-this-i-feel-like-someones-playing-a-joke-on-me/?p=80014 https://airvpn.org/topic/18635-looking-for-fast-server-eu-that-goes-beyond-30-40mbit/?p=44998 For online gaming: https://airvpn.org/topic/30135-frequent-spikes-lag-on-videogames/?p=79046 https://airvpn.org/topic/1947-for-those-wondering-about-speed-performance/?p=1967 https://airvpn.org/topic/26157-airvpn-slowing-down-other-machines-in-network/ https://airvpn.org/topic/26117-slow-speed-sort-of/?p=70906 https://airvpn.org/topic/20812-very-very-slow-dns-lookup/ https://airvpn.org/topic/23743-download-speeds-dropping-to-zero-and-going-up-and-down/ Problem: Slow torrent speeds and/or disconnects.Solutions:https://airvpn.org/topic/28082-torrent-on-airvpn-speed-is-very-poor/ https://airvpn.org/topic/26218-slow-torrent-speeds/ https://airvpn.org/topic/23936-repeatedly-getting-disconnects-while-torrenting/ https://airvpn.org/topic/23499-slow-torrenting-speed/ https://airvpn.org/topic/23070-solved-p2p-slow-over-udp-and-fast-over-tcp/ https://airvpn.org/topic/22716-poor-torrenting-connection/Solutions are in link form without any explanatory text - at least not yet - so that the thread OP stays looking simple and uncluttered, where it's easy to find out what your problem is . Feel free to contribute with your own helpful links. The more feedback this thread gets, the quicker it can be improved and hopefully made useful.

1) so i don't do a lot of torrenting but sometimes i'll download music torrents which not many people do these days so i'll seed for a bit longer than usual. but sometimes i'll notice after it's been up for a while i'll see a peer trying to connect to me using the same port number that i use, which is weird because i use an oddball number that was assigned by air. thing is it's always from china and i could see if maybe a coincidence that someone could be using the same port as me if it only happened once, but i've seen it happen quite a few times and it's always from china. i guess my question is, is it someone trying to hack me or something? i figure that would probably be next to impossible being i'm already using vpn and firewall and what not. but if you were using your actual ip adress and they knew which port you had open is that something they could use to get in to your system? really i know it's probably no big deal, just bugs me when i see it. 2) i also see people sometimes that will be using both ipv4 and ipv6 address and showing up as two peers i guess to speed up their downloads, but to me that's cheating so i'll usually just ban one of the addresses and they can get one connection like everyone else. my upload slots are limited so like i said seems like they're cheating. kind of wonder how they get that to work, but really i'm fine with waiting 30 min or whatever it takes to get my free product without being a pushy a-hole. reminds me of people that go through the 10 item express lane at the grocery store with 25 items.

The community is not going to answer you by mail, simple as that. If you registered your account with that mail, this message will trigger a notification, so consider yourself replied to Anyhow, some countries like Russia, Iran and China will need specific configurations; have a look at AmneziaWG. For less severe cases, simply try a connection with default settings and gradually change them if it doesn't work: Wireguard -> OpenVPN OpenVPN UDP port 443 -> other UDP ports UDP -> TCP, first port 443, then maybe others, but TCP/443 should never be blocked in a network TCP -> OpenVPN over SSL or SSH, ports 443 or 22 Well, you don't need to purchase it right away. You can nicely ask support for a three-day trial to see if AirVPN is a good fit for you.

Hello! Not anymore, and even less in the near future. HTTP/3 is quickly spreading. Today, HTTP/3 is used by 36.5% of all the websites, including major web sites inside countries that enforce blocks against VPN. Furthemore, blocking UDP as such is no more realistic, not even in China, where UDP has become an instrumental protocol for many companies in any sector (video streaming, video conference, VoIP, marketing, social media marketing, regime propaganda and more), for regime aligned or regime owned activities. In China you have a near 100% success rate and no shaping (apart from the normal shaping for anything outside China) with the current Amnezia "weak obfuscation" (no CPS) implementation, i.e. at the moment you don't even need QUIC mimicking (which is anyway available and very effective). Currently, bypassing blocks via UDP than via TCP is more efficient in China. At the moment there is nothing more effective than mimicking QUIC with the signature / fingerprint of an existing web site that's not blocked, and you have this option right now. We see > 95% success rate, which is better than the success rates of SSH (not exceeding 75%), shadowsocks and XRay, V2Ray etc (but a lot faster!). The success rate is similar to any VPN protocol over HTTP/2, but, again, dramatically faster. We're glad to know it. It is also very flexible. Thanks to CPS, you may mimic any transport layer protocol built on UDP, for example DNS, QUIC, SIP. Kind regards

With the AmneziaWG protocol, the obfuscation capability at the UDP layer is greatly improved, but what about at the TCP layer? Other countries may completely block the UDP protocol, making it impossible for AmneziaWG to connect. In that case, they can only connect via the TCP protocol. Currently, AirVPN only has early obfuscation solutions such as SSH and SSL for TCP obfuscation. In China's IPv4 environment, SSH and SSL are fully recognized, rate-limited, and blocked. This means that AirVPN's TCP-level obfuscation performance is relatively poor. I think the next step for AirVPN could be to focus on TCP obfuscation. X-ray, Shadowsocks, and V2Ray are all protocols with high levels of obfuscation. You could choose one of these protocols to make an outer proxy for OpenVPN TCP to enhance the obfuscation capabilities at the TCP layer. I know that AirVPN's strongest shield against TCP is the pluggable bridges developed by the Tor team. However, Tor is blocked in China at a much higher level than SSH and SSL (because the dark web is hidden within the Tor network). The newly developed WebTunnel is unlikely to survive more than three months in China. Blocking Tor isn't about identifying the bridge protocol; it's about blocking Tor-related domains, node IPs, and bridge IPs, making Tor unusable in China. AirVPN might be able to utilize the obfuscated bridge protocols developed by the Tor team without using Tor nodes, using bridge protocols like WebTunnel as an outer proxy for OpenVPN TCP, directly connecting to the AirVPN server network. AirVPN may still rely on Tor for TCP protocol obfuscation in the short term, which is understandable, given that adding a new protocol to all servers would require a significant amount of time and resources. The addition of the AmneziaWG protocol is sufficient for my needs; thank you, AirVPN. However, with increasing global internet censorship and the emergence of new obfuscation protocols, switching to more modern obfuscation protocols is definitely the future trend for VPN vendors, because there will always be people in the dark side of the internet. These are all my personal opinions, thanks.

Well, it's the worst ISP in China.They shape everything.I suggest you should switch to other ISP such as China Telecom , China Unicom or China Mobile.You may find some cheap plans on the RedNote.But BE CAREFUL. If you switch your ISP to I mentioned above, you could try these servers. China Telecom: NL , DE , US SJC , US LAX China Unicom: nearly all european servers (except IE , NO , SE) (I recommend NL , DE) , US servers in the west coast. China Mobile: JP , SG servers I recommend using OpenVPN (IP Entry 3 & UDP & Port 443),since WireGuard is too easy to be identified (run a Wireshark and you know what I mean). If you have IPv6 connection,you should use them first (unless it's too slow for you).The GFW is less aggressive on IPv6 compared to IPv4

Hello! Eddie Android edition also features a database of 30+ QUIC signatures of real web sites, including Russia and China web sites. Each signature can be selected with a tap from the list. Eddie Android edition can also generate and export an AmneziaWG configuration file with the selected CPS to be directly used on different platforms and other Amnezia compatible software. Kind regards

I'm planning to go to China soon and am wondering how to use AirVPN in China (if possible at all). Thanks for any info given

Hello! We confirm the problem and we could determine that both the domain name authoritative DNS and the web site block the Taiwan server. Packets get out regularly from the server and from Taiwan but they are black holed by the final destination datacenters. Furthermore the authoritative DNS does not answer to our DNS server in Taiwan (this is a lesser problem as you could resolve the name through some other public DNS or the hosts file). We don't know the reasons of this behavior. If you query Democracy Now and you receive a reply please let us know. In the meantime we can "micro-route" Democracy Now web site from Sulafat, we will examine how to do it soon. Yes, this is in the official ISO-3166 that Eddie uses to find areas names assigned by the United Nations. According to a previous administrative division, Taiwan is the biggest province of the Republic of China (ROC), not to be confused with People's Republic of China (PRC, mainland China). By using Taiwan as the country's name, "Province of China" is also a definition pushed by PRC at all levels (from UN to NGOs) to shape two ideas: that PRC must "re-unify" with Taiwan and that when you say "China" you don't talk about the Republic of China, but about the PRC (even PRC detractors fall prey of this propaganda as we can see from this thread). In this sense ISO-3166-2:TW entry could be seen as a concession to PRC narrative and the PRC can "play" over the ambiguity of the definition. In the next version we may either stay with this one, according to the United Nations status (but see here for some arguments against this), or censor the ISO document itself. A UN spokesperson’s statement in May 2024, reiterating that Taiwan is a province of China (referring to PRC and not ROC according to directly or indirectly PRC controlled media), guided by the General Assembly resolution of 1971 (Resolution 2758), is important to see how much energy PRC spends to affirm the notion that there is only one China and this only China is PRC and not ROC. On the other hand, we have been fighting and circumventing mainland China (PRC) censorship for 14 years, we recognize China (PRC) as a country enemy of the Internet, controlled by a regime hostile to various human rights, and in reality resolution 2758 interpretation may have been distorted by PRC.. Therefore ISO-3166-2:TW unilateral modification to delete "Province of China" is not unreasonable for us. The matter will be discussed. However, to insinuate that the normal software usage of an ISO document to translate or find a country/area name means that AirVPN endorses PRC (or PRC alleged wet dream to invade Taiwan) or that AirVPN fails its mission after all the sacrifices brought on to circumvent censorship in mainland China is offensive to say the least, or not in good faith in the worst case. The very fact that we list the server in Taiwan with Taiwan as a country tells a lot, as today Taiwan is recognized as a country only by 12 countries in the world. Kind regards

@MichelAIR too. Hello! It's the ISO 3166 string extracted by Eddie as usual for any country. You can ask ISO to include ROC on ISO 3166 as a sovereign country, but it will not happen. ISO builds the list according to those countries that are either UN members, parties of the statute of the ICJ or members of a UN agency, but Republic of China can't enter the UN because of the PRC veto. To make things worse, almost all the countries in the world, including the USA and the EU Member States, with the exception of 12 countries with lesser power in the UN such as Belize and Haiti, do not recognize the Republic of China as an independent country because, we guess, they fear too much the economic sanctions PRC will enforce against those countries that would do so. Our solution to list Taiwan as it was in ISO 3166 as a stand alone, recognized and independent country, with its own flag, its own place as a country in the servers list, its own country fully qualified domain name in the infrastructure, far from being funny should have told you everything. Building our own codes and strings by breaking ISO standard may become a bigger problem but we'll evaluate it (after all we already got out of ICANN for specific ICE-related "enforcement" more than a decade ago). The matter was already on the table as already announced in the "News" forum: https://airvpn.org/forums/topic/63201-new-1-gbits-server-available-new-country-tw/?do=findComment&comment=238819 and Eddie's next version will print "Taiwan, Republic of China". On one hand, by abiding to the ISO 3166 but moving ROC to an autonomous country as it has been in practice since decades we can keep using ISO standards (no technical complications, no exception handling and worse) but at the same time we show a clear political position and challenge PRC propaganda & mantra "there's only one China". The obvious strength of this position is the provocation to leave the ISO string and keeping ROC as an autonomous country, therefore claiming there there is NOT one China only and de-structuring the meaning of "Province of China". On the other hand, breaking ISO standards and UN decisions may be very questionable but somehow stronger. Also, to avoid losing the strength of the aforementioned provocation we can find alternative strings such as "Republic of China" directly (claiming Taipei in "Republic of China" can cause again adverse reactions by ignorant people). This is the picked modification for the next Eddie version, at the moment. No problems. The fight of elderly AirVPN members against PRC censorship, propaganda and more is a quarter of century old, so being accused to align with PRC against ROC is obscenely provocative, but the replies are (self or not) moderated. As far as it pertains to the initial reaction, it means that at least the provocation worked, although it was not fully understood in this case, and if it serves the purpose to push people to realize that it's the ISO (and the UN, secondarily) the one putting the string "Province of China" on the ISO 3166 doc, it's a good thing. Not to mention that it can also serve the purpose to make people question how come, how it's possible that one could become victim of PRC propaganda "there's only one China" when one is against PRC propaganda! Kind regards

I am guessing that China has blocked all AirVPN IPs. If you connect to any AirVPN server and try to access any China websites (such as baidu.com), you get connection timeouts. Can this be fixed?

Hello! Taiwan is the main and biggest province of the Republic of China (ROC), not to be confused with People's Republic of China (PRC) aka mainland China. Taiwan is also the informal name of the Republic of China. Get informed here first: https://www.taiwan.gov.tw/ Although the Republic of China is officially recognized only by a few countries and not by the UN (due to the veto of the PRC) we list and we will list Republic of China as an independent country, as it is in practice, in real life of citizens and in spite of the imperialist goals of the PRC. Probably you should send your protests to ISO, not to us: please read the next message for more details and check what we have done so far to recognize the Republic of China as an autonomous country and affirm that there is NOT only one China. Anyway ISO compliance break is on the table. Currently, the decision is that the next Eddie Desktop version will print "Taiwan, Republic of China". Eddie Android edition doesn't need modifications. Kind regards

they have the same port and their completion rate ticks up at the exact same rate. i use qbittorent so it shows you that stuff in the peers tab. and no i don't live in china thankfully.

I remember you were based in China. Could it be your own ISP IP address there? Nah, that's not how it works. If you're subscribed to your ISP's gigabit line for instance, you don't get one IPv4 gigabit line and one IPv6 gigabit line which then add up to be two gigabits – the same gigabit line is just reachable by two different address schemes, v6 preferred, but the quicker gets the traffic. No need to ban anything there. At least for that reason – at the end of the day I think it's still taking two upload slots. Wondering how you know it's the same peer, though.

On a Huawei Honor mobile phone, AirVPN does not seem to work in China. I have installed the Android Client (Eddie - Air VPNGUI) without problems, and it also worked in other countries without problems. But in China it does not work. The only different setting I made to the standard settings is that I set the "Current local country" from the drop-down list to "People's Republic of China". Are there any other special settings one must use on a mobile phone when in China?

I just simply chose recommended server. It keeps connecting different servers but never succeeded. Is AirVPN working well in China now? Thanks folks

I have a business trip to China in 2 months, and I wanted to check with folks here to ask if anyone ever used Airvpn in China. I know that a lot of VPNs don't work there. I would be glad if someone who has been there recently can tell me if it works, or whether I need to configure some advanced settings to use it in China. Thanks

Hello! Yes, AmneziaWG support on the server side. You do not need handshake and payload packet padding to circumvent blocks in Russia and China. Padding may be instrumental to make destination guessing from traffic pattern more difficult. Kind regards

Hi team, Thank you for the great service! I've been using AirVPN and it has been very stable. I used a Asus router and use OpenVPN there. It works fine for a couple of month. However, today it started not connecting. I've tried multiple config and all of them don't work. Would you please help me take a look on what's happening? Thank you so much! Best wishes syslog.txt

Using the VPN from china is either not connecting or super slow. What’s the preferred settings at the moment?

Maybe you both should calm down? The official wording on the very website linked by Staff is actually Republic of China (Taiwan). You see it in the logo, you see it on the very first image on the About page. I'd like to inquire as to where Staff got the funny idea that it was Province of China, which is easily interpreted as "Taiwan, a province of People's Republic of China", which is the actual propaganda. Of course, Taiwan the country has got a Taiwan Provice itself. But since we're looking at a list of countries, it makes no sense naming it "Taiwan, Provice of China". It's a very subtle way of devaluing the ROC – the country's name is Republic of China (Taiwan). Therefore I suggest changing the wording to what the website calls it.