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

This thread seems to be a magnet for necromancers (zombied not once, but twice!) and crazies... That wouldn't really make a difference what brand of servers they use. Wrong. Apple computers are assembled in China under so poor conditions, that workers constantly try to commit suicide there. Indeed, but just imagine the irony of Icelandic servers succumbing to a coldboot attack. Incredible right? I've never heard AirVPN talk about protections against such attacks, while another VPN provider couldn't stress it enough; so they ran their servers in RAM or something. But still, coldboot attack on an Icelandic server would be pretty funny; if you have poor humor like me. But seriously, three years later, where are we on the Icelandic servers?

I took a quick look at the EULA for Minecraft. It appears if you have the US version you agree to arbitration and basically sign away all rights to any kind of court action. Having said that, I'm wanting to get an account for my child. I live in China and it seems like I can log into my Mojang account when my VPN is up, but I haven't tried to actually download anything. Pardon my ignorance, but what is the advantage of using a VPN to log into Minecraft? I've done a few searches and here's what I sort of understand. 1) A VPN would allow you to download the normal version of Minecraft, as opposed to the Chinese version. 2) Using a VPN would also allow you to connect to some servers with a higher speed, depending on the location of the server. Is there any other real advantage for using a VPN with Minecraft? Are some servers blocked by China? Thanks

And many more, for example p0f. Maybe p0f could be considered as dpi or maybe I used the wrong word and it's only a simple packet inspection. In some websites changing the mtu is not enough. If I remember well Witch  uses p0f too. Anyway my question is about using other tools to avoid or reduce captchas and to avoid knowing you are using vpn/proxy/etc... and for example Mullvad avoids many captchas adding socks5 and I thought obsproxy could also help, but as zhang888 said it couldn't be the case. So, what other alternatives could help?. If the problem is that websites make a list of IPs from VPNs then it's hard to avoid or we need an "IP in the middle". And I know this will be worse and many countries could do the same as China/Russia in the future.    Those web sites are using MTU and 2 way ping not DPI.

They're simply making it more difficult for average Chinese citizens to use a VPN. Chinese companies and individuals can't run a VPN or provide access to one without a license according to this. Apparently foreign companies doing business in China can't either. Unless you live in western China, you should continue to have access. China is more concerned with keeping average citizens fenced in and unaware. Most will just decide it's not worth the trouble. Low profile expats, technically savvy Chinese individuals, and visitors are not on their hit list. The gfw may decide on it's own to block suspicious traffic, but so far VPN providers have proven more than a match for this cat and mouse game.

China, Russia. The only global power that hasn't adopted such measures is the United States. We're next.

Yeah, while it lasted. Two days Must have been the shortest active periode of all AirVPN servers ever introduced! Air's South Korean server(s) lasted only a few days IIRC. Not sure how useful this would be, but perhaps instead of AU, Air could consider putting a server up in Hawai`i. They have datacenters I think. This has already been previously answered. There are indeed datacenters in Hawaii, however they are routed through the US west coast, making them ineffective for South East Asia. Users in regions such as China and Australia would actually have an easier time using a server in Los Angeles rather than Honolulu. Hi there. Just my experience. The West Coast US servers as fastest from me when I am in Oz. The Canadian West coast servers drop out, as does Singapore. Netherlands and UK are always stable too. Other EU countries are good, but slow. And yes, the internet in Australia is total rubbish. Thank you, Mad Monk and big business. It's an easy fix - and an election fix, if one or other party had imagination; but like sustainable energy policy, it won't happen.

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

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.

Not trying to take any business from AirVPN, but as a "backup", forums in Australia have quite a few long term workers/visitors to China setting up a "private VPN", similar to a business running its own VPN server for remote access by staff to internal systems for security reasons. See https://openvpn.net/ A moderate amount of motivation and technical expertise is required, and a suitable arrangement with family/friends/computershop/techo/? to host and run when/if needed. The Great Firewall seems to be rather "manual" and unpredictable and variable across time and location and how you are categorized - tourist, working for foreign corp, working for Chinese corp, foreign citizen visiting relatives, etc. For some, using a private vpn server and ip address back in one's "home country" allows access to georestricted streaming subscriptions etc in their own language. For the rest of us "commercial vpn users" it makes it more difficult for politicians and bureaucrats and police to argue for banning/blocking/registering vpn use to increase their power/budgets/kickbacks/... because this bypasses Netflix style filtering of ip address ranges and datacentre detection techniques.

Sorry for warming up that topic. Before I sucribe to airvpn, I wasn't want to be sure: I have been to China countless times and used different VPNs (some worked, some not). In November I am going to life in China for several years, therefore I need a good and working VPN. Many people suggested airvpn and the more I read about it and here in the forum, the more I like it. So just to double check: the provided info in this thread is still up to date and working, isn't it? maybe there is somebody in china at the moment and could confirme? Thanks everybody!

Just chipping in to say that I have this problem with Eddie hanging, and it isn't necessarily after long periods of use or after sleep. On one occasion, I launched Eddie, connected to a server, disconnected a few minutes later (I'm in China and often need only short connections), then after a few minutes Eddie froze. My machine didn't sleep or go to screensaver during this time. It does seem to have something to do with the ping times being enabled. However I can't really turn them off permanently since my pings vary wildly from day to day and my situation (China) requires frequent switching of servers. Appreciate all the efforts from those making scripts. For those recommending a downgrade, I'd reply that this has possible security implications.

Similar motivation and use-case to @dcarrera, but expect infosec is a much more serious issue for Air clients in places like China, Egypt, Turkey, etc; and journalists/bloggers/political parties/etc dealing with government corruption leaks etc nearly everywhere; and others in a very imperfect world (ad nauseum, eg ex-partners of bitter secret/security police). One thing I notice is that if I am doing some bittorrenting, including seeding, there is a very large "spray"/"fog" of highly variable traffic to many different trackers, peers, distributed hash table and peer exchange functions. So this would obscure sensitive connections subject to correlation attacks. And using an Air server with many torrent clients running (guesswork) multiplies the "noise level".

I work in a school in China that has suddenly changed admin and become somewhat hostile. According to one of the IT people here, they've installed software on a server that would enable them to take screenshots of anyone's computer or phone that is on the network. We don't have to install software on our laptops or phones to be able to get on the network so I really don't see how taking screenshots is remotely possible. It MIGHT work if we log onto the network to move files or to print, but even that seems a bit of a stretch. I trust the IT guy as far as being honest. He didn't install this new powerful software, but heard someone else in his office talking about it. I'm guessing if I'm on a VPN my Internet use should still be secure. Any comments or ideas about this?

Complete new eddie user, with a Mac 10.12.4 and the latest Eddie. I cannot even login. I start Eddie, it asks for my Mac account password!, then I enter my airvpn name and password, and then I get a message saying that it cannot log in (attached). My interest in E is prompted by my plan to visit China next month. Any suggestions as to what is wrong?

Hello! I'd say download Eddie before departure, use SSL/SSH and maybe even get Tor ready just in case. It does work in China, although it might be patchy. There are some China-related threads around here if you look .

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.

Just purchased this software this afternoon and spent hours on how to setup the Eddie Client. I've tried all the SSH/SSL protocols, but still failed to pass the great wall in China. Now I am posting this with the roaming provider's expensive program. Anything else could help for setup? Thanks!

Just purchased this software this afternoon and spent hours on how to setup the Eddie Client. I've tried all the SSH/SSL protocols, but still failed to pass the great wall in China. Now I am posting this with the roaming provider's expensive program. Anything else could help for setup? Thanks!

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/vpn-users-in-china-megacity-chongqing-face-fines/3631568.html I realize the former notice applied to businesses in China running a VPN. This seems to target individual users. Anyone else heard more news on this? As usual it seems as though they're waiting to actually hit people with fines. Of course way out west they'll outright cut your service if you use a VPN or any kind of encrypted app.

It would seem that in an effort to shill for the Chinese Government, Mojang has decided to ban all users on VPN's from connecting to the login servers needed to access the game. In doing so, they hope to force all Chinese players to fall back to the Chinese government approved version of Minecraft. All VPN users should now be logged out when connecting and fed the message "Invalid username or password" When emailing Mojang about the issue, they recommend connecting without a VPN to fix the issue, and in one instance in the reddit thread below, a user was informed that their account was outright banned for using a VPN (However it is unknown if this was because of a previous infraction such as bypassing server bans etc.?) And told to use the Chinese version instead. https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/5vwve1/mojang_now_ban_accounts_for_vpn_usage/ Now i personally do not play Minecraft that much at all anymore, but because of this i cannot access my game simply for trying to protect my privacy, and I'm not even from China. I Refuse to remove the VPN connection simply to play a game, and no one else should have to either. Sadly, i already purchased the game a very long time ago, so i cannot boycott them, but i can certainly spread the news of what they are doing, so that other VPN users looking to play the game should know either not to buy it, expect to disconnect if you do, and if you don't you will have to get the game through other means to retain the ability to play when connected to VPN's.

The destruction of "net neutrality" and the fight by oligarch corporations and funds for kingdoms and fiefdoms to monetize the internet may have all sorts of impacts, rather like Game of Thrones dramas. ln some ways similar to the Great Firewall of China perhaps, but different due "capitalism with Chinese characteristics" vs "fascism with American characteristics". Walls work both ways, internet services can avoid direct jurisdiction and intervention by the US government and corporations, but Americans are fenced inside by their masters, physically and digitally.

Hi, Treiberschreiber and zhang888. Thanks for your reply. you make me understand how ring buffer runs inside airvpn. And I have tested my Internet Speed in China with airvpn(OpenVPN over UDP) from this website: http://testmy.net, getting the result: 1Mbp~4Mbps. Even the Internet Speed only is 1Mbp~4Mps, accessing web page or watching youtube is enough. I am very happy.

Yes, I tried several different protocols, but always end up with the fatal error or just staying in a connection-retry loop. I really don't get it, it worked just a few days ago (https://airvpn.org/topic/22266-speed-in-china/) on an almost fresh Manjaro install like this one now.

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!