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Hello! OpenVPN over UDP and WireGuard are blocked on most (if not all) China residential lines. You need the following connection mode: OpenVPN protocol TCP port 443 entry-IP address 3 (three) When you run Eddie you can change connection mode on the "Preferences" > "Protocols" window. Uncheck "Automatic", select the proper line (the selection is confirmed by highlighted line) and click "Save". Kind regards

Gross. Selling out to an American company is a quick way to throw away your entire reputation. I considered subscribing with them at one point, glad I didn't. Clearly David Wibergh is willing to put money before the privacy and security of his users. Aura owns Hotspot Shield too. I've never heard of VPN360 or UltraVPN. Apparently Hotspot Shield has servers in Russia and China? What??? Thanks for the heads up.

hello, i am using linux version of airvpn (ubuntu, x64) and it doesnt work in china. i was trying to fix it myself checking the forum. someone recommended to use IP addresses 3 and 4 tls-crypt which is not avalible in my version. how can we the problem be solved?

hi I found that AirVPN does not work in china from last week,may be blocked by "The Great Wall"，would u fix it pls? thank u very much

Hello all, I am not an IT expert at all and honestly I'm confused in terminology related to vpns. I live in Germany and soon moving to China. I would like to take with me a router and get a good VPN and hopefully setup the routeur There to have it always connected to this vpn. I don't know the names or terminology about what to do to reach this result. 1) does most of recent routers can do that ? (Asus for example ?). Maybe I need to upload a file to the router from the VPN supplier. 2) which vpn could work ? Airvpn? Cyberghost? Torguard ? I plan to do all the setup here in Germany before leaving cause all is so much more complicated in China (tell me about getting an Android phone there during my last trip and get the google play store to work, was horrible !). If any of you know a combination router + VPN with a good tutorial how to set it up.. I'd be very appreciative!! Thanks in advance !

As the title mentioned that report tells that china will all personal vpns, so, AirVpn, maybe you should be ready for that, maintain your service available for the customers in mainland china https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-10/china-is-said-to-order-carriers-to-bar-personal-vpns-by-february

Not only TikTok. For example the Bitcoin network can not be controlled so a transaction from an American citizen could potentially go to a citizen of a country that's "a menace" for the USA (definition of enemy and menace is discretionary, the used language seems fine tuned to allow scope enlargement at will without judiciary supervision). Since that's not controllable, we find it potentially possible that operators might be required to block "the Bitcoin network". What's worse, according to a preliminary interpretation of the text, if in some way (difficult but personal and house search, pre-selected through the usual monitoring performed by USA ISPs, can help...) it can be proved that a USA citizen has used some tool like Tor or VPN to access any of the blocked network / services etc., that citizen will be prosecuted: civil liability up to a million of dollars, and criminal behavior subjected to up to 20 years in jail - which, if we're not mistaken, is worse than in China, Russia, and various countries controlled by human rights hostile regimes. Kind regards

I'll be in Asia for a while and most of you have heard of the Chinese efforts to monitor internet activity. Last time I was there, I had some problems with AIR (though it's been a while so that might have changed). Astrill was recommended to me by an acquaintance as an alternative in case of trouble but I have no experience with them. Do you guys know more about this particular VPN service?

Was there a crackdown on VPNs in China a few days ago? I can't find anything on the topic, but all protocols, except for SSL stopped working. I already switched to SSL on my phone too, I'm just wondering if anyone knows anything. Sorry if it is off-topic (feel free to move the thread).

Hello everyone, about two days ago China went up against VPNs (I guess). Because since then I have to use the SSL protocol on my computer to connect. Unfortunately on my mobile phone (android) I don't have this option. Are there any suggestions how to solve this? How long does the eddie android app take? (I read Juli 2018, but is there a beta testing channel). I really like airvpn, I don't want to look for another service. Thanks for your help!

I am planning a two to three month visit to China. I am interested in hearing any recent reports about using airvpn in China. Are there any difficulties, any suggestions, any advice? If anyone knows something that I should know, please let me know! If you know what I mean.

Hello, I'm using AirVPN from China and am getting Speed between 100 (or less) and 1000 (rarely) kbit/s. I tried to set the TCP/UDP buffer sizes to 256 KB, which didn't change anything. Then I saw another forum post where it was suggested to set them to OpenVPN on a Linux machine, which didn't change anything either. I am using Eddie 2.12.4 (before updating to this version the speed was very low too), so I tried to speed up through the mssfix (which I entered in the settings OVPN directives -> Custom directives), unfortunately no change in speed either. I tried choosing some Servers in Asia (Hong Kong, Singapore), but they seemed to be even slower than European ones, which I would get through autom Hello, I'm using AirVPN from China and am getting Speed between 100 (or less) and 1000 (rarely) kbit/s. I tried to set the TCP/UDP buffer sizes to 256 KB, which didn't change anything. Then I saw another forum post where it was suggested to set them to OpenVPN on a Linux machine, which didn't change anything either. I am using Eddie 2.12.4 (before updating to this version the speed was very low too), so I tried to speed up through the mssfix (which I entered in the settings OVPN directives -> Custom directives), unfortunately no change in speed either. I tried choosing some Servers in Asia (Hong Kong, Singapore), but they seemed to be even slower than European ones, which I would get through automatic selection anyways. Is there anyone using AirVPN in China with acceptable speed, at least above 10 mbit/s? Or does anyone have any suggestions what I could be doing wrong / could try to get more speed? Before I've been using a friends Astrill VPN, which has been way faster than what I'm getting in speed now. However, I changed to another Linux distribution and couldn't get Astrill running on it. I would love to keep using AirVPN, but ... Cheers!

Travelling to China soon, is the bootstrap and app working there?

Do you notice how low the utilisation is on HADAR? It has the best ping times and lowest utilisation of any server close to mainland China, yet seems to never have very many users. I'm a developer and tech supporter who commutes in and out of China. Ever since I started spending a significant part of my working life in China, a couple of years back, I've been using various VPN offerings. I've watched the Darwinian struggle between the Great Firewall and VPN providers with interest. As a developer, I need access to GitHub and Google infrastructure, both of which are generally pretty comprehensively blocked on the mainland. So being able to find VPNs that work is a very important health factor for my stomach-lining. I have come to realise that the issues with VPN-use in China are considerably more nuanced than most people (and VPN solution providers) often understand. It depends very much on your ISP, for instance. Especially if you are using mobile cellular or mobile wifi, it will be easier to get at the outside world than if you are on a large corporate, academic or government network. Also your geographic area influences things a lot. There are different policies on net access say in Shenzhen or Shanghai than in many other areas. The GFW isn't really a firewall. Traffic doesn't traverse a minimal set of GFW gateways in and out of China. There is enormous central logging. Some of the best big data work is being done in China today for not totally unrelated reasons. But that is an asynchronous data feed that is analysed later, not in real time, and not in a way that impacts the performance of the traffic in and out of China. The GFW is mostly implemented in a distributed fashion at the local ISP / POP / gateway router-level, through DNS poisoning and routing rules, which are updated based on automated and manual research, based on the outputs of a range of tools, including deep packet inspection and other techniques, carried out by a large and clever and competent group of people. The GFW uses deep packet inspection out of a desire for maximum control and minimum disruption. For instance, the way that un-stealthed OpenVPN connections are generally blocked is through DPI detection of OpenVPN starting a TLS authentication negotiation. There is an idiosyncratic signature that identifies the traffic as an OpenVPN session starting up. Depending on local policies, routers may be programmed to temporarily block source ips that offend. The problem is, the other favourite method of blocking VPNs is through protocol / port / ip address specific blocks. If you look, HADAR, the Hong Kong-based natural choice for AirVPN users in China, is usually very lightly loaded. This is because it is generally impossible to successfully establish an SSH session to either the primary or alternate IP addresses associated with HADAR from within mainland China. Same with the Singapore-based ANTARES. AirVPN will quite happily try over and over to open the SSH session, taking ages to time out of the SSH set-up, but never moving down the list. You have to manually block the ones that don't work, hence, I suggest, the low load on HADAR. As far as I can see, at least for the geographic locations available to me, no-one on the mainland can successfully use SSH / OpenVPN into HADAR. I bet the majority of actual HADAR users are Hong-Kong-based. AirVPN currently has a major competitive advantage. To the best of my knowledge, nobody else effectively automates the use of OpenVPN inside an SSH or SSL tunnel. VPN use in China is enormous. So much of China's economy relies on export and international trade. These businesses are very extensive users of VPN connections. Business VPN use hasn't a lot to do with politics, it's to do with international trade and finance. In the mainland Chinese context, AirVPN also has a major competitive disadvantage. Because of AirVPN's POP selection strategy, as a GFW target, AirVPN POPs keep very, very still. Entry IPs are public and few, and also apparently stable. They don't change. They are easy to find out - just look in the DNS. The result is that for mainland China AirVPN users, HADAR and ANTARES are old and well-known GFW targets and consequently largely useless. This is why DSIBAN in South Korea was important. For various reasons, mostly to do with entertainment and media, there is enormous bandwidth between mainland China and South Korea. So DSIBAN performed beautifully for users coming from inside China. Because it was new, the GFW apparently hadn't been updated yet to block it. I re-examined the problems with HADAR, and confirmed that from several major cities in China, HADAR use through SSH is currently blocked. It's sooo frustrating! The best VPN for use in mainland China, at the moment, is crippled performance-wise, because you have to go half way around the world to find an accessible server! As far as I can find out, most VPN users in China use VPN POPs in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Malaysia. So it seems to me that AirVPN must be losing out on a major piece of the very very large market for VPNs in mainland China. I wish that AirVPN would find a way of having a much more dynamic and extensive set of alternate entry IPs for its POPs. Also, consider the possibility of not making it so easy to find out what IPs are currently in use, like via the public DNS. That would make it a much more difficult target, and therefore much more resilient and useful for users in China. If AirVPN wanted to try an experiment, it could find a way of changing the primary and alternate entry IPs on HADAR, say once a week, for a few months, and see what happens to the utilisation level. It doesn't have to be very dynamic to work, since the GFW research and update process is not that fast. If there is anything I can do to help with testing or whatever, I'm absolutely up for it. I have a vested interest, you might say.

Sorry for being late. I have two VPN servers: 1. VPN server #1 (tls-crypt): I setup a VPN server on my Asus router with tls-crypt enabled. 2. VPN server #2 (no tls-crypt): This is a VPN server the company gave me for teleworking. I can connect to those two from many places. I want to check whether they can be connected from China. It was difficult for me to have an IP in China to test this. Luckily, Astrill VPN has one China IP. My PC connect to it and share a Wifi hotspot to a mobile device. The "OpenVPN Connect" app on the device can establish a connection to #1, but not #2. I am not 100% certain that whether being no tls-crypt is the cause. I think I would edit the #1 to "no tls-crypt" and try it again. If #1 cannot be connected after then tls-crypt would is crucial. However I don't dare to make the Great Firewall know the IP of #1 serves as a VPN server.

How does this affect Air? No more Chinese servers? "The notice, published yesterday, renders most VPN providers in China illegal, SCMP reports." Source: https://torrentfreak.com/china-ban-unauthorized-vpn-services-in-internet-crackdown-170123/

Hi there, Currently, i am living in China now. I have been using airvpn for about one month. Everthing works perfectly except Asian-TCP-443. But today , just now, im facing connection issue on all servers including America, Europe and Asian(both TCP and UDP ports). Therefore i have to use my backup vpn to get access to this site. Any help to solve this problem would be appreciated. Thanks.

http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/economy/article/2113521/new-internet-looks-keep-user-data-away-tech-giants-and-bypass

Hello, after reading the pinned post about blocking VPN in China I feel a little embarrassed by the relative importance of my issue, which has been occurring more frequently over the past ~6 months. I wouldn't normally complain, I've been using Airvpn for years, but it's getting a bit worrisome. I usually connect to Airvpn's Canada BC servers, but they seem to be having serious load balancing issues. The screenshot depicts a typical situation, the Los Angeles, Fremont CA, Vancouver, even the Chicago and Phoenix servers are not listing. I find that I am often kicked from a server and reconnected to another one *very* far away. For example, I'll be on Sham in BC and a couple hours later find that I'm suddenly connected to Atlanta Georgia or Toronto 2,000 miles away.... Is this due to excessive traffic on the west coast, and are there any plans to increase service coverage for this region?

I'm trying out the trial, as i hear good things about AirVPN but so far its not working for me. I can get it to connect but default DNS does not work, and after a while the connection times out and drops. If i set put OpenDNS's servers in Eddie, then atleast i can resolve DNS. But the speed doesnt go over a few B/s, sometimes the AirVPN webpage can load. I probably need to obfuscate my vpn traffic, but i expected such features to be included into the client. s there anyone here, connecting from China? AirVPN_20161208.txt

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/01/china-announces-mass-shutdown-of-vpns-that-bypass-great-firewall/

I've used AirVPN for years and will soon be making my first business trip to China. Coworkers have warned me about the firewall and suggested some VPN providers that do well to get through it. None of them have mentioned Air, has anyone here had any problems using it in China, specifically Beijing?

I am from China.the Chinese ISPs have blocked a lot of websites, it lead to many people have to use vpn and proxy. I have used Express vpn before. To be honest, Express vpn is very fast most of the time, and I can also use it to unlock netflix. However, because Express is so famous, it is often blocked by GFW, which makes it very unstable. Airvpn does not have this problem. Its speed is not slow in China Mobile and China Unicom, and it is rarely affected by GFW. However, Airvpn still cannot meet all my needs. Its speed terribly slow in China Telecom. And it can't unlock netflix. So I have to buy another vpn to supplement the weakness of Airvpn.

Since it is not very easy to use a VPN from countries like Iran a recorded a tutorial on how to use airvpn from these countries: https://usefulvid.com/bypass-the-persian-and-chinese-firewall-by-using-airvpn-with-ssl/ The videos are hosted on my website and on youtube. The reason is that it is not possible to access youtube from Iran. https://youtu.be/jl8I2-GQF94 It would be nice if you could share this with your friends in Iran, China, Turkey, Russia, UAE, Saudi Arabia and provide feedback if this method works. You can also download this video from my website to make it easier to share and spread the word. A video on how to use stunnel on android will follow and also published on this site. Update on 6.1.2018: The Video for Android is finally published: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwf5JI6t0TI For all who suffer from youtube censorship this is the link for you: https://usefulvid.com/bypass-the-persian-and-chinese-firewall-by-using-airvpn-with-ssl/ Second Video on the page

I live in China. Recently the download speed has about 5Mbps after 1pm utc time(night in China) with VPN, but the upload speed is fine, about 100Mbps. Without AirVPN, the speed test is normal. The download speed in the daytime is fine, about 400Mbps. Any idea how to troubleshooting this?