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The single Singapore server 1Gbps at Leaseweb Asia often shows the highest number of users, and highest load above 50% in regional evening. Singapore is an efficient regional hub, with Content Delivery Network servers such as Akamai and Amazon and good undersea cable links. <p> Notably traffic to Europe often transits via ME rather than via NSA/USA like HK and JP. But in matters like islamic militancy and drugs and of importance to state level agencies one would expect close cooperation with Australia/China/India/USA etc due general geopolitical strategy and authoritarian internal politics. A VPN cannot protect against man-in-the-middle and monitoring for other clues in the routing from VPN server to an IP address "of interest" after the end of the tunnel. <p> Air does not seem to have much takeup in Asia, but it is a growing/large Internet presence, and commercial and political conflict and corruption should drive a need for VPNs and other security measures. Even just in say Thailand, there is chronic conflict between military and students etc, and many expats wary of insulting the system. One can find a majority presence of Indian peers in bittorrent swarms for popular pirate stuff like Game of Thrones, which may be an indicator of part of the load on Singapore. <p> Singapore is the smallest latency from east coast Australia now my ISP is using a supplier that routes Sydney-Japan-HK, but the Perth-Singapore cable has a history of being broken for days a couple of times a year by fishing trawlers or earthquakes.

Thanks LZ1 but I was more after knowing which VPN config actually works in China. I can set up 50 different profiles, but it'd be good to know which ones are known to work. Cheers

Hey guys, Just wondering if you've done anything with Android or iOS clients? When I visit [family and friends] in China, I only take my phone (Android for me and iOS for the mrs). Previously I used expressvpn for her, but I prefer airvpn as the encryption is industry-leading. Would like to know how to setup correctly before next visit. Thanks in advance gents.

Hello! I assume so, just use SSL/SSH. It works in China, so it should go okay in Turkey surely! .

I am increasingly finding that I can't connect, get connection resets, timeouts, authorization failures, or that I can't get server updates. I also frequently find that although I'm connected I can't get any data through the connection. Not even pings go through despite Eddie showing a connection. I've tried SSL and SSH connections. SSH seems to be the worst for this. I'm actually accessing the site via a VPN on a private server I have (not always reliable, though). I'll attach a log file from just now. I'm using the Linux version of the Eddie client here in China. This is not the only VPN I've run into problems with. My private server is running SoftEther and that often connects with no trouble if I use the SoftEther protocol. L2TP/IPSec is hit or miss and I often lose the connection. I'm usually able to connect with a competing VPN service, but I don't know that I trust them as much as AirVPN. AirVPN_20161224_181942-CannotConnect.txt

Out of curiosity, now that you can establish a connection, what performance are you able to get out of China? I would assume it would be slow, but with Antares (Singapore) only being 30ms or so away i wonder how well it performs and what about servers in Hong Kong? i would suppose they are the fastest for you. I could be wrong, but i would like to find out.

Which "modern" countries disallow this? Australia, China, Kuwait, Singapore, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Uzbekistan, Yemen, Burma, Indonesia, South Korea, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey. A special "mention" (not strictly related to your question) to Russia and Lithuania, in which any positive "mention" of homosexuality is a criminal infringement. North Korea is an outsider, useless to cite it, since no Internet connectivity is available to the citizens (they have an internal intranet with 30 approved web sites, according to an old ONI report in 2007). Kind regards

I am in China now and Air works best if you use SSL tunnel protocol - look under preferences (on windows and linux). Linux and windows work the best by far. Android is a little different and more buggy, but still usable. I'm no expert, just figuring things out as I go along. If anyone can add to this, please do.

"journey towards nihilism continue, it's going to be one hell of a ride." No one knows what will happen, Trump seems to have various visions and schizoid personas, like a host of Westworld. But unlike the Nazis or Communists or various authoritarian regimes, there does not seem to be a consistent shared ideology, more different opportunistic "leaders" and groups salivating at different stimuli, and driven for ingroup power, some for worship of money. Sort of like throwing a cow carcass into a yard full of half starved police dogs, security dogs, junkyard dogs and watch them rip each other. Less competition as the carcass of America rots and swells with maggots and gases. Then maybe Trump and Putin fall out with an ambitious doublecross, like Hitler and Stalin with Barbarossa. Not a World War, just 24 hours of nuclear exchange would burn the worthwhile targets in Russia and the USA, while most of Europe, China, India and the rest of the world tried to hide.

Hi! Thanks for your answer. I don't have any forwarded ports. I'm sure I was connected on VPN, but I have some troubles with Kaspersky firewall and Windows Firewall Network locking from Eddie. I think that y conection is leaking sometimes. I'm waiting Eddie 2.11 to solve ths problem I was very surprise because the detected attacks wer from 3 differents IP adresses, and every ip were located in China. The first day, the two different adresses were from the same city. So, I think the attack comes from outside VPN servers. I was connected to a public wifi.

First they came for the terrorists, then they came for the child molesters, then they came for the copyright avoiders, then they came for the porn fans, then ... "As part of its mission creep, the government is also pushing for the BBFC regulator to have the power to tell ISPs to block content that isn't pornographic. It states: The steps that may be specified or arrangements that may be put in place under subsection (2) © include steps or arrangements that will or may also have the effect of preventing persons in the United Kingdom from being able to access material other than the offending material using the service provided by the Internet service provider." http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/11/isps-block-porn-sites-age-verification-digital-economy-bill/ "And the bill already makes it clear that the government wants to go after "infringing sites" by choking their access to payment providers such as Visa and PayPal, ..." Not in the Brit livestock, but what China calls "internet sovereignty" is spreading. So prudent to be paid up for another year just in case payment monitoring or blocking of VPNs is added to the powers that be.

Put differently, Kepler, a poll by the American polling company Gallup, in 2014, found that the US was considered the biggest threat to world peace. Well before Trump or HIllary fighting for the presidency. Not Russia, not China, not all the "regimes" you like to hit on. It's a poll that most Americans may not have heard about, as it wasn't really carried by US media, naturally. This was a survey of 65 countries. But according to you, none of this will matter, because the US is simply fighting for various "rights", while all the others are just abusing human rights. So are you going to tell me that the rest of the world is just plain wrong hmm? Because I can agree that Russia shouldn't have annexed Crimea for instance. But how is it any different to the US virtually annexing Iraq, Afghanistan and all the others? Try and for once focus on what the US has done please, instead of just going back to hitting on the others again and talking about human rights. Just for a change.

That was a good read, thank you. It brought up many of the points I brought against Kepler as well - the notion that it's excellent to have ideals such as his, but that it should be tempered with: Paying attention to practical matters and reality on the ground. Example: Do poor, uneducated white men have legitimate gripes with the system and thus a good reason to vote Trump? An ability to view not just one side of an issue or opinion, but to evaluate both, in an attempt to arrive at as truthful a perception of reality as possible. Example: Why does China act how it acts, in the SCS? Are drone strikes always good, even if said to be brought against terrorists?If those two could be accomplished, then it makes for a good combination of having sound values such as being against racism and various kinds of bigotry, but without being blinded by those same values, in a way that makes one open to being manipulated or otherwise unable to see things for what they are or aren't.

One aspect of it was it being marketed as a win for the USA over China in some zero sum game narrative. But in member states, US Big Pharma would extend patents and force up prices, killing relatives slowly. US Big Tobacco would claim billions in damages for lost profits from governments for anti-smoking regulations. Genetically modified plants and animals would disrupt and destroy native ecosystems and farming practices, but "barriers to trade" cannot exist. Parents of school kids would be extorted or sued by agents of US lawyers for infringing copyright on games and music. Everywhere, from government cabinets to peasant huts, growing hatred of the Yankee Imperialists ... Typical example of the richest 1% and big corporations gorging themselves against the national interests and 99% of Americans.

Hello! Yes, it is possible. While "airvpn.org" is blocked in various China areas (IP blocking), you can access anyway our VPN servers. You can also access our website after you have established a connection to a VPN server or through a proxy or TOR. You can prepare the OpenVPN configuration files for our servers before you go to China (so that you will not need to access our website) or have us send them to you in an encrypted e-mail (gpg recommended). In case the chinese ISP that you will use tries to detect and disrupt OpenVPN connections, you can use OpenVPN over a SOCKS or an http proxy (example: https://airvpn.org/tor). Kind regards

It sounds like you're saying the Chinese government could block Air, but thinks it shouldn't. Does STAFF think its technically possible for China to block Air?

Air works from within China. But it's slow. The Chinese government knows it shouldn't crack down on all outside communication, as many citizens and companies rely on access for things like business. Besides, it can be a tricky business given the scale of the operation I think . If they just block all forms of encryption, the internet breaks as well lol. Sent to you from me with datalove

P.S. The U.S.not only helped it's allies rebuild, it helped it's former enemies, Germany, Austria and Italy rebuild. I'm not excusing any U.S. crimes. I think G.W. Bush, for instance, should be in jail along with a couple of former Presidents (Johnson and Nixon if they were still alive). China hasn't been in any wars because they've been busy building their economy on the backs of domestic slave labor. But now they're certainly doing some very loud saber rattling and claiming other country's territory. And let's see, Russia hasn't been in wars in, ummm, oh ya, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Syria? It hasn't seized the territory of some neighboring state? Ummm, oh ya, the Ukraine.

The consistency thing was more of a joke though, haha. Because as we know, he's very inconsistent. But while I agree with your description of him, I don't see how that would make him any worse than Hillary would've been, in terms of bullying/terrorising the rest of the world. Because sadly, fact is the us has been doing just that, ever since WW2 ended . It's just either swept under the rug or made to sound justifiable. Due to DTs inconsistency, I also don't think it's worth being afraid of him not working out differences with non-whites, because even he, as a Republican, has been quite Democratic in terms of his views, at some points. So his views aren't even iron-clad. As many have said, there may be a distinction to be had between campaign-DT and president-DT behaviour. I also do know that he denies climate change. He once said it was a Chinese plot, concocted to cripple american industry, due to the extra burdens of being environmentally friendly placed on them, haha. So while it's a tragedy he holds such views, at least other nations like China will continue to improve their respective environments. Even if, naturally, it may be slower now perhaps. It should be said Hillary was no angel even in this respect though. She actively supported fracking, which is lame. It's a shame nuclear power isn't supported more. As for rule of law, I still don't think Hillary would be a major change in that regard either. Where was rule of law when Iraq was invaded illegally for instance? Or millions spied upon? Sure he represents greed, but yet again, how is that any different from Hillary, who was found to receive speaker fees from Goldman Sachs and others? I think it all just comes down to whether you want your vices hidden or thrown in your face. If hidden, then Hillary is the way to go. If thrown in your face, then DT.

Thank you for your reply. IThis ATA works with OpenVPN in client mode. In GUI of this ATA under OpenVPN section it has two options i.e. Enable VPN and Import VPN configuration. Do you think this device is working with tls auth key? Sorry I have no clue on this, device will arrive in a week from China and I am worried I might take agest to configure it if don't know much about it from now

One may see categories of VPN user at present. Some are "pirates" after streaming or bittorrent or ftp content without drawing problems from ISP or lawyers or police, and often interested in raw speed especially at peak evening time and big data allowances. Some are more concerned with privacy and security for a range of reasons, from dissent with the ever more smothering surveillance state with email and website logging and content retention and scanning and realtime alerting and focussing and ... and ... Others are in political environments such as China or Myanmar or USA (put her in jail, sue them all, buy a better gun, ...) where consequences of personal expression are uncertain. Others have reason to beware commercial or criminal mercenaries/investigators. Some may be doing criminal things, but serious ones can avoid sending out clues and evidence anyway.

I'm still curious if the experimental client would've solved it for you. Did you ever try it? Oh and I'd be careful around that suspicious "zhang888" person, as you never know if he'll suddenly build a wall somewhere and proceed to blame China for this "global warming hoax" it created, on his Twitter account!

Have another joint and see if you can concentrate on what I actually said. I said that if it delivers what it promises the digital world really needs it. And for the record, I have not said anybody should trust it in advance of proving itself. I, personally, have just about convinced myself to buy a small mining contract. There's definitely risk in that and I wouldn't encourage anyone to take a risk without understanding it. But I like the idea of supporting a really promising technology created by some very smart people. And, yes, if it works out, I like the idea of getting a financial payback for taking the risk. But your timing on the tea thing is amazing LOL. I just brewed a pot of marvelous keemun from China....yummmy If the contract works out I'll send you some keemun with the 1 BTC that zhang888 will owe me Cheers.

Quick question, i know there are several country's in Europe that are safer from US surveillance, but considering how Hong Kong is in proximity to China (US enemy) and Edward Snowden considered it safe enough to retreat to, is Hong Kong safer for internet privacy compared to some of its counterparts? If not what are the best country's AirVPN offers to use to get as far away from US monitoring as possible? Note: I know its practically impossible to evade US monitoring, but surely there is one country safer than another.

Everybody surveils. But people only complain about the USA. I guess they expect such from Russia and China? By the way, if you believe some people, Ukraine is likely under heavy USA surveillance as a sort of cold war with Russia.