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Hi all new here and newish to VPN's (used Hide my Ass many moons ago, mistake I know lol) Anyways just looking for some help/advice on the best way to use Airvpn. I'm currently running the AirVPN client with network lock enabled (on 1 laptop 1 pc using SSH on port 22) and was considering using OpenVPN client instead. I have a few questions i would like answered before hand however such as. how easy it is to set up? pro and cons? will I need to download comodo and implement the firewall blocks that are mentioned in the how to? also regarding the use of SSH is there any advantages to it over using UDP or TCP security wise? As my ISP does no traffic management or shaping to these. what do you think is the best or most secure way thanks in advance for any help or insight you may have

ok, using Ubuntu 14.04, Thunderbird, VPN through Network manager. Unable to connect to my outgoing mail server. smtp.secureserver.net / 68.178.213.37 port 465 SSL/TLS . I am unable to connect to it while on VPN (Blocked I assume), turn off VPN and I have no problem. This also seems to be the only port they offer. Is there a way to add to the settings that anything going to this address to bypass VPN via the iptables and if so how. Tried a few settings and still doesnt work. Or do I need to add a additional Netcard?

Edit: The more i played around with it, the worse it got. I was using the latest build of WIndows 10 so....Just went back to WIndows 8.1 and all is well Delete this thread mod.ty I upgraded to WIndows 10 and have been having issues even connecting to a server at all. Is anyone else having these problems? Im gonna try to reinstall the program and see what happens.

i have eddie and open vpn installed. when i connect to server my pc freezes at dns network adaptor forced everytime nomatter what i do. i was able to connect with open vpn a few times but eventually froze in like 20 seconds. this is day 2 of my trial purchase and this is rediculous i created a ticket and looked online its like im the only one with this problem. i have also tried with and without network lock and it still freezes during connection with dns forcing and i cant do anything(not even move my mouse) i have to reboot and its very annoying and time consuming. i made a copy of the log when i was able to connect with openvpn using the config file openvpn log.txt

Hi guys. Any chance we could please get the BBC Sports coverage of Wimbledon working on all of the VPN's, not just the UK ones? Cheers.

Hello all, this is a question I am struggling to phrase in a google search, therefore I cannot find an answer. Recently thinking about the Tor network it occured to me that in the case of a VPN, the Exit server is presumably the server that decrypts the traffic? Am I wrong on that? If not, then wouldn't that mean that VPN traffic could pass overseas unencrypted. For example: If i was to want to access facebook.com (US based) from here in the UK, the connection (encryped) would go Me>ISP>VPNSERVER>FACEBOOK So my question, perhaps a silly one, is: Is the internet traffic between the Exit server encrypted? If not, are we all at risk by not using a VPN exit server that is based in the same country as the server we are trying to access? Because otherwise I draw the conclusion that we are sending unencrypted internet traffic over the international fibre cables that are all heavily monitored. Thanks in advance

Hi, I started experimenting with AirVpn om my Android smartphone. The setup is the first I start Orbot, second AirVpn (UDP-443) and last but not least Orweb. Everything seems to be working and IP Chicken shows me a nice Ip adress. I want to apologize for my ignorance, but is this a good anonymous setup and how can I check that the VPN is going through Orbot? Kind regards,

Using Ubuntu MATE 15.04 Trying to add Airvpn to my connection. I followed the instructions and have tried UDP and TCP and get this error:

Chinese snoops try tracking VPN users with fiendish JSONP trickery

Hi. I have recently commenced using AirVPN, and I must commend you for having one of the most accessible pieces of software I've ever seen for users who are fully blind or vision impaired. One issue I've encountered is that I'm not able to access the button or icon that I need to click in order to get to the advanced settings area. It would be great if this could be addressed, as it's proving frustrating to get to the advanced features of this fabulous software package. Otherwise, I'm very happy with your speeds from Australia and it's great that you offer the ability for users to be able to download the files necessary to use your service with Viscosity or any other open VPN client. Cheers.

Hello, I am using a Blackberry Passport and would like to connect to AirVPN using an SSH tunnel. The options look like the picture below. Where can I find the information to fill this in? If it's not possible with the BB options, does anyone know of reliable open-source software for the Blackberry Passport that support the VPN SSH tunnel. My knowledge is still limited with all this, but learning. Thanks!

Hi Anyone know how to set-up the VPN with the Wii U?

Hey, After logging in I used to be able to connect to any of the servers. I would select TCP over port 443 to connect. But recently the version of the client I have stopped working. When I try to log in it says "The client is obsolete and no longer supported". So I went and downloaded the latest version. I can log in fine and see the server list, but I can't connect to any of them. I keep getting an "Checking info 1, 2, 3... unable to connect to the remote host error". It then keeps doing this over and over trying to connect. I have tried to connect with many servers and always get the same result.

Hello, I just bought a subscription and loaded up the software to find I can't log in! So I am getting an error that says "Cannot receive systems & server data. Please retry later or contact us for help. (The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden.) I just want to get this ironed out. Any help?

I am running the following system: Raspberry pi 2 with ArchLinux Arm Kernel 3.18Provider Down/Up Speeds: 70/10 MbitI can maxout Up and Down speed without VPNIf I use my laptop (Manjaro linux) i can maxout the connection even behind the VPN, so this is not provider traffic shapingWhen using the VPN the following happens I try to to download anything using a single connection (for instance using "aria2c -x 1 -o /dev/null download_url") my top speed is going to be ~150KB/s with negligible cpu load.I try to the same thing using multiple connection (for instance using "aria2c -x 10 -o /dev/null download_url") my top speed is going to be ~600KB/s, and in both case cpu load from openvpn is about 30%, so this is not a cpu issue.If try to download a single torrent (extremely well seeded) I reach even better speeds (~1.5MB/s), with about 50% cpu load from the openvpn process.The only way to maxout the cpu and the download speed is to download several well seeded torrents at once (so a lot of connections I believe), getting 3MB/s (the expected cpu limit) with 100% cpu load.I can't say what is going on, but apparently it looks like that a "single" connection is going slow (maybe for some faulty network configuration?) and the only way to saturate the speed is to use several connections at once. Is anyone able to give any help? Best

Hello everyone, I purchased AirVPN recently to keep my torrent traffic private, and am just now getting around to putting it to use. However, I'm getting some extremely slow speeds, or rather no speed at all. I'm using the AirVPN client and letting it connect to a recommended server, but consistently get 0 B/s (Yes, that's B/s) download and upload. It will occasionally jump to ~100 B/s, or even ~100 KB/s, but drops back to 0 B/s shortly after. I also took the speed test on this website which gave the following results: Down: 0.477 Mbit/s Out, 0.470 Mbit/s In (98%), 1MB - Up: 0.382 Mbit/s Out, 0.322 Mbit/s In (84%), 1MB - Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 19:28:09 GMT - Buffers: 1MB/1MB - Laps: 3, Time: 325.56 secs Not quite 0 B/s like the AirVPN client says, but still unacceptably slow considering I get around 50-60 Mbits/s download and upload (Verizon) when not connected to the VPN. I'm a total greenhorn when it comes to just about anything networking, and assume I messed something up when trying to configure the VPN with my torrent client (Deluge), so I'm just going to go into what exactly I've done so far and then maybe someone here can give me some guidance. First, I followed the P2P optimization guide found here: https://airvpn.org/faq/p2p/ In the end, my settings look like this: http://i.imgur.com/SnGiGJ9.png Which looks correct to me, for whats its worth. Second, I setup Windows firewall rules to block Deluge's connection in the event that the VPN unexpectedly disconnects, or I forget to turn it on or something. I did so following this guide: https://vpn.ac/knowledgebase/55/Windows-Firewall-rules-to-block-P2PorTorrent-traffic-if-VPN-disconnects.html I tested to make sure it works with the little speed I have and it does seem to work. I'll get a few KB/s while connected to the VPN, and it will stop or start back up when I disconnect and reconnect to the VPN respectively. Aside from those two things, I've done nothing else, and don't even know if there is still more I need to do aside from those two things. I'm hoping the pros here can point me in the right direction because what I've tried to find out on my own so far has been fruitless. Thanks in advance!

Hi everyone, ich have e problem with download speed usin vpn. Usually it's not possible to get more than 1Mb. To make connection to the airvpn I'm using ASUS RT-N66U with tomato shibby. Changing servers or ports doesn't help. I was trying with udp 443 and 53 but there is no effect. Telekom is my IPS and I have 50Mb internet connection. Could ynaone help me solving my problem? Thanks

Good day, First of all I am running Ubuntu 14.04 on my laptop. What I want to achiev is to connect to tor via Airvpn. (That's the safest setup way, am I right?). Problems that I occure: To connect to Tor, I need to setup proxy in Airvpn client. Ant then use data in Tor configuration and achieve connection. Airvpn client without proxy setting works flawless. After I turn on proxy (socks5), I cant connect to server, I get reconnect loop, log: I 2015.03.09 11:03:54 - AirVPN client version: 2.8.8, System: Linux, Name: Ubuntu 14.10 \n \l, Architecture: x86 . 2015.03.09 11:03:54 - Reading options from /home/vibe/.airvpn/AirVPN.xml . 2015.03.09 11:03:56 - Data Path: /home/vibe/.airvpn . 2015.03.09 11:03:56 - App Path: /usr/lib/AirVPN . 2015.03.09 11:03:56 - Executable Path: /usr/lib/AirVPN/AirVPN.exe . 2015.03.09 11:03:56 - Command line arguments (1): path="/home/vibe/.airvpn" . 2015.03.09 11:03:57 - Operating System: Unix 3.16.0.23 - Linux Q 3.16.0-23-generic #31-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 21 18:00:35 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux . 2015.03.09 11:03:57 - Updating systems & servers data ... I 2015.03.09 11:03:57 - OpenVPN Driver - Found I 2015.03.09 11:03:57 - OpenVPN - Version: OpenVPN 2.3.2 (/usr/sbin/openvpn) I 2015.03.09 11:03:57 - SSH - Version: OpenSSH_6.6.1p1 Ubuntu-8, OpenSSL 1.0.1f 6 Jan 2014 (/usr/bin/ssh) I 2015.03.09 11:03:57 - SSL - Version: stunnel 5.02 (/usr/bin/stunnel4) I 2015.03.09 11:03:57 - IPV6: Available ! 2015.03.09 11:03:57 - Ready . 2015.03.09 11:03:57 - Updating systems & servers data ..., 1° try failed (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy., with 'socks' proxy and 'none' auth) . 2015.03.09 11:03:57 - Updating systems & servers data ..., 2° try failed (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy., with 'socks' proxy and 'none' auth) . 2015.03.09 11:03:57 - Updating systems & servers data ..., 3° try failed (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy., with 'socks' proxy and 'none' auth) . 2015.03.09 11:03:57 - Updating systems & servers data ..., 4° try failed (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy., with 'socks' proxy and 'none' auth) . 2015.03.09 11:03:57 - Updating systems & servers data ..., 5° try failed (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy., with 'socks' proxy and 'none' auth) . 2015.03.09 11:03:58 - Updating systems & servers data ..., 6° try failed (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy., with 'socks' proxy and 'none' auth) . 2015.03.09 11:03:58 - Updating systems & servers data ..., 7° try failed (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy., with 'socks' proxy and 'none' auth) . 2015.03.09 11:03:58 - Updating systems & servers data ..., 8° try failed (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy., with 'socks' proxy and 'none' auth) W 2015.03.09 11:03:58 - Cannot retrieve systems & servers data. Please retry later or contact us for help. (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy.) I 2015.03.09 11:04:49 - Session starting. I 2015.03.09 11:04:49 - Installing tunnel driver F 2015.03.09 11:04:50 - Only TCP protocol is allowed with a proxy. . 2015.03.09 11:04:58 - Updating systems & servers data ... . 2015.03.09 11:04:58 - Updating systems & servers data ..., 1° try failed (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy., with 'socks' proxy and 'none' auth) . 2015.03.09 11:04:58 - Updating systems & servers data ..., 2° try failed (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy., with 'socks' proxy and 'none' auth) . 2015.03.09 11:04:58 - Updating systems & servers data ..., 3° try failed (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy., with 'socks' proxy and 'none' auth) . 2015.03.09 11:04:58 - Updating systems & servers data ..., 4° try failed (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy., with 'socks' proxy and 'none' auth) . 2015.03.09 11:04:58 - Updating systems & servers data ..., 5° try failed (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy., with 'socks' proxy and 'none' auth) . 2015.03.09 11:04:58 - Updating systems & servers data ..., 6° try failed (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy., with 'socks' proxy and 'none' auth) . 2015.03.09 11:04:58 - Updating systems & servers data ..., 7° try failed (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy., with 'socks' proxy and 'none' auth) . 2015.03.09 11:04:58 - Updating systems & servers data ..., 8° try failed (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy., with 'socks' proxy and 'none' auth) W 2015.03.09 11:04:58 - Cannot retrieve systems & servers data. Please retry later or contact us for help. (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy.) I 2015.03.09 11:05:12 - Session starting. I 2015.03.09 11:05:12 - Installing tunnel driver I 2015.03.09 11:05:12 - Retrieving manifest W 2015.03.09 11:05:12 - Unable to retrieve systems & servers data. Continue anyway with the old data. . 2015.03.09 11:05:12 - Updating systems & servers data ... I 2015.03.09 11:05:12 - Checking authorization ... . 2015.03.09 11:05:12 - Updating systems & servers data ..., 1° try failed (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy., with 'socks' proxy and 'none' auth) . 2015.03.09 11:05:12 - Updating systems & servers data ..., 2° try failed (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy., with 'socks' proxy and 'none' auth) . 2015.03.09 11:05:12 - Checking authorization ..., 1° try failed (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy., with 'socks' proxy and 'none' auth) . 2015.03.09 11:05:12 - Updating systems & servers data ..., 3° try failed (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy., with 'socks' proxy and 'none' auth) . 2015.03.09 11:05:12 - Checking authorization ..., 2° try failed (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy., with 'socks' proxy and 'none' auth) . 2015.03.09 11:05:12 - Updating systems & servers data ..., 4° try failed (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy., with 'socks' proxy and 'none' auth) . 2015.03.09 11:05:13 - Checking authorization ..., 3° try failed (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy., with 'socks' proxy and 'none' auth) . 2015.03.09 11:05:13 - Updating systems & servers data ..., 5° try failed (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy., with 'socks' proxy and 'none' auth) . 2015.03.09 11:05:13 - Checking authorization ..., 4° try failed (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy., with 'socks' proxy and 'none' auth) . 2015.03.09 11:05:13 - Updating systems & servers data ..., 6° try failed (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy., with 'socks' proxy and 'none' auth) . 2015.03.09 11:05:13 - Checking authorization ..., 5° try failed (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy., with 'socks' proxy and 'none' auth) . 2015.03.09 11:05:13 - Updating systems & servers data ..., 7° try failed (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy., with 'socks' proxy and 'none' auth) . 2015.03.09 11:05:13 - Checking authorization ..., 6° try failed (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy., with 'socks' proxy and 'none' auth) . 2015.03.09 11:05:13 - Updating systems & servers data ..., 8° try failed (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy., with 'socks' proxy and 'none' auth) W 2015.03.09 11:05:13 - Cannot retrieve systems & servers data. Please retry later or contact us for help. (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy.) . 2015.03.09 11:05:13 - Checking authorization ..., 7° try failed (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy., with 'socks' proxy and 'none' auth) . 2015.03.09 11:05:13 - Checking authorization ..., 8° try failed (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy., with 'socks' proxy and 'none' auth) W 2015.03.09 11:05:13 - Authorization check failed, continue anyway ({1]) ! 2015.03.09 11:05:13 - Connecting to Grafias (Netherlands, Amsterdam) I 2015.03.09 11:05:13 - DNS of the system will be updated to VPN DNS (ResolvConf method) . 2015.03.09 11:05:13 - OpenVPN > OpenVPN 2.3.2 i686-pc-linux-gnu [sSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [EPOLL] [PKCS11] [eurephia] [MH] [iPv6] built on Dec 1 2014 . 2015.03.09 11:05:13 - OpenVPN > MANAGEMENT: TCP Socket listening on [AF_INET]127.0.0.1:3100 . 2015.03.09 11:05:13 - OpenVPN > NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts . 2015.03.09 11:05:13 - OpenVPN > Control Channel Authentication: tls-auth using INLINE static key file . 2015.03.09 11:05:13 - OpenVPN > Outgoing Control Channel Authentication: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication . 2015.03.09 11:05:13 - OpenVPN > Incoming Control Channel Authentication: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication . 2015.03.09 11:05:13 - OpenVPN > Socket Buffers: R=[87380->131072] S=[16384->131072] . 2015.03.09 11:05:13 - OpenVPN > Attempting to establish TCP connection with [AF_INET]127.0.0.1:9150 [nonblock] . 2015.03.09 11:05:13 - OpenVPN > TCP connection established with [AF_INET]127.0.0.1:9150 . 2015.03.09 11:05:13 - OpenVPN > socks_handshake: server asked for username/login auth but we were not provided any credentials . 2015.03.09 11:05:13 - OpenVPN > SIGTERM[soft,init_instance] received, process exiting ! 2015.03.09 11:05:13 - Disconnecting . 2015.03.09 11:05:13 - Connection terminated. I 2015.03.09 11:05:16 - Checking authorization ... . 2015.03.09 11:05:16 - Checking authorization ..., 1° try failed (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy., with 'socks' proxy and 'none' auth) . 2015.03.09 11:05:16 - Checking authorization ..., 2° try failed (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy., with 'socks' proxy and 'none' auth) . 2015.03.09 11:05:16 - Checking authorization ..., 3° try failed (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy., with 'socks' proxy and 'none' auth) . 2015.03.09 11:05:16 - Checking authorization ..., 4° try failed (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy., with 'socks' proxy and 'none' auth) . 2015.03.09 11:05:16 - Checking authorization ..., 5° try failed (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy., with 'socks' proxy and 'none' auth) . 2015.03.09 11:05:16 - Checking authorization ..., 6° try failed (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy., with 'socks' proxy and 'none' auth) . 2015.03.09 11:05:16 - Checking authorization ..., 7° try failed (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy., with 'socks' proxy and 'none' auth) . 2015.03.09 11:05:16 - Checking authorization ..., 8° try failed (CUrl is not installed on this system, and it's required for SOCKS proxy., with 'socks' proxy and 'none' auth) W 2015.03.09 11:05:16 - Authorization check failed, continue anyway ({1]) I 2015.03.09 11:05:16 - Cancel requested. ! 2015.03.09 11:05:16 - Session terminated. By the way how to access Tor line in Airvpn->Preferences->Protocols? Off problem topic question - would openvpn increase security or solve problem? (Sorry newbie) Have a nice day, amen1337 P.S.: Sorry for poor English

Hello, i just opened now a IRC Channel #AirVPN on the irc network irc.freenode.org this channel can be usefull for new users to get in touch with AirVPN services and just to talk about Anonimyzers in general. if any administrator of AirVPN want to come, i will be glad to offer them the Operator status. i hope that you will like it & have a nice day.

Dear community, Hoping someone can help with this.... I am trying to setup a firewall script for my router running Tomato Firmware 1.28.0000 -121 K26ARM USB AIO-64K by SHIBBY on a Netgear R7000 Nighthawk on mostly default settings apart from the VPN Client. The script is to block all non-VPN traffic even if the connection fails and i have tried several suggestions made in the forums without success. Below is the script most people have success with (except me): iptables -I FORWARD -i br0 -o tun0 -j ACCEPT iptables -I FORWARD -i tun0 -o br0 -j ACCEPT iptables -I FORWARD -i br0 -o vlan2 -j DROP iptables -I INPUT -i tun0 -j REJECT iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o tun0 -j MASQUERADE (from https://airvpn.org/topic/4287-how-to-block-all-traffic-with-dd-wrt-if-vpn-connection-fails/) I think the problem lies in the assigned interface names. Below is my current routing table while VPN'd: In short can someone modify the script to suite my arrangement?? or let me know what direction I need to take to set this up.... using the script above lets traffic through even if I stop the VPN client and my attempts to modify usually blocks all traffic. Any help would me much appreciated, EWS

While recently the cloudflare captchas became a major annoyance they seem to block whole IP ranges now (leaseweb).You can log into your account but every download you start gets timed out. With a bunch of european servers I experienced this and can confirm. So I contacted the support and they claimed that this "provider" (AirVPN) provides account-sharing and even charges their users for it - WTF Don't know what is on their mind; maybe AirVPN is supposed to be a multihoster? And therefore block whole IP ranges? This needs some clarification!

Hi everyone JC here, I havn't found anything useful on the fourms so far but everytime I connect to the severs any host I keep getting a short fragment network attack and the whole connection gets cut and forced to another server where it will ontinue the same loop. This is mainly while torrenting and has happended on servers in a few countries. Is there a way to fix this because the native firewall in my AV/IS is useless and I have used outpost before I started using torrents. If there is anymore information I can go into great detail but it's 4:47AM now after I've tried for about 3hrs to confiq it right. Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated.

Quick question: How would i decrease the perfect forward secrecy value from 60 minutes (Default) to 30 minutes. Please include step by step instructions Thank you, DaChiefzz

Canada now requires ISP and VPN providers to keep logs for a minimum of six months what's does this mean in relation to Canada serves that airvpn provides, is privacy compromised? http://torrentfreak.com/canadian-isps-vpns-now-alert-pirating-customers-150102/

The setup is: Air over TBB (Tor browser bundle) (Running TBB First, then airvpn over Tor) Is it possible to setup iptables in a way to drop any non vpn packets when connected Air over Tor? Or maybe drop any non tor & vpn packets?