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It's time to say goodbye. AirVPN is no longer really usable for me. Most of the servers I'm interested in are constantly overloaded, the connections are slow and the latency is poor. That's why I've decided to stop using AirVPN, even though I still have well over 800 days left on my subscription. The way things have been for a while now, normal use is no longer possible. It's a real shame, as I have been a loyal AirVPN user for a long time.

I love the fact that existing customers always get to take advantage of the same offers new users get, thank you!

Hello! We're very glad to announce a special promotion on our long term Premium plans for the end of Summer or Winter, according to the hemisphere you live in. You can get prices as low as 2.06 €/month with a three years plan, which is a 70% discount when compared to monthly plan price of 7 €. If you're already our customer and you wish to stay aboard for a longer period, any additional subscription will be added on top of already existing subscriptions and you will not lose any day. Please check plans special prices on https://airvpn.org and https://airvpn.org/buy All reported discounts are computed against the 7 EUR/month plan. Promotion expires on 2025-09-22 UTC. Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Staff

I've seen a lot of UK servers with yellow or red capacity for quite a while now and am wondering if the absence of new UK servers are a result of the governments new privacy legislation and possible future restrictions on VPN's. With such a possibly volatile future maybe it's not prudent to improve servers there until the situation stabilises

We have kept the OP message to show the pervasiveness of the PRC's propaganda lackeys. We consider Taiwan (Republic of China) to be independent and autonomous from the PRC (People's Republic of China), as it is in fact. ipleak uses MaxMind and IANA databases to display results, and we are pleased that these are aligned with an anti-imperialist and democratic vision that is clearly unpalatable to the dictatorial regime of the PRC, which sees it as an obstacle to its expansionist ambitions.

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 But when I checked my IP on ipleak.net, I saw Taiwan was shown with those outdated flags, which is totally wrong.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!

Hello! Yes, definitely. We will consider it seriously and keep you posted. Kind regards

The connections of both apps are independent, so yes, connect with Eddie, then connect to the Tor network using the browser to essentially have a Tor over VPN setup. For routing all apps via Tor using Orbot this setup is not possible. Orbot will be using Android's VPNService API itself, so it's either VPN or Tor. Root can open doors here but it also closes some, as always.

I don't know if such a thing exists? Looking for a Docker (Or something like it) that I could run as a VPN gateway router. I could then change my default gateway on the local machine to be able to use the VPN channel? change it back to use my ISP normal one... I am currently using gluetun and the proxy function but it doesn't work PC wide (Unless i change the proxy setting inside the OS) but was looking at only changing the default gateway, or am I thinking about this all wrong?

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/

I've been using Airvpn together with deluge 1.3.15 running via docker for years without issue. Recently I noticed almost all my torrents are returning "Error: Connection timed out". I initially assumed I had too many torrents in my client, 2.5k total, so paused about half but it didn't make any difference. I've also experimented with the number of connections in the deluge settings but it hasn't made a difference. I've tried a few different servers, currently on AirVPN_BE-Brussels_Diadema Is anyone else seeing this behaviour?

Just wanted to mention I had a similar issue and setting up duckdns with the dns-01 challenge worked perfectly. I tied my duckdns to the exit the VPN's IPv4, forwarded a port, then used certbot, (a venv to allow pip on a raspberry pi), 'pip install certbot_dns_duckdns' and the following: certbot certonly --non-interactive --agree-tos --preferred-challenges dns --authenticator dns-duckdns --dns-duckdns-credentials YOUR-TOKEN-UUID --dns-duckdns-propagation-seconds 60 -d yourdomain.duckdns.org --key-type ecdsa --elliptic-curve secp384r1 Thanks for your post, definitely wouldn't have figured this out otherwise!

Here is my working Open VPN config on a Netgear R7000 with Fresh Tomato:

Hello, I installed Siduction as a Linux distro, then Wireguard and Resolvconf... In the Linux terminal, after launching wg quick up, I get this response: sudo wg-quick up /home/nicolas/airvpn/europewg.conf Warning: `/home/nicolas/airvpn/europewg.conf' is world accessible [#] ip link add dev europewg type wireguard [#] wg setconf europewg /dev/fd/63 [#] ip -4 address add 10.163.170.96/32 dev europewg [#] ip -6 address add fd7d:76ee:e68f:a993:5e09:e107:ad2:4168/128 dev europewg [#] ip link set mtu 1320 up dev europewg [#] resolvconf -a tun.europewg -m 0 -x [#] wg set europewg fwmark 51820 [#] ip -6 rule add not fwmark 51820 table 51820 [#] ip -6 rule add table main suppress_prefixlength 0 [#] ip -6 route add ::/0 dev europewg table 51820 [#] nft -f /dev/fd/63 /dev/fd/63:5:110-123: Error: Could not process rule: No such file or directory [#] resolvconf -d tun.europewg -f [#] ip -6 rule delete table 51820 [#] ip -6 rule delete table main suppress_prefixlength 0 [#] ip link delete dev europewg Does anyone have a solution? Thank you very much.

Thank you, been waiting for a sale, 3 more years, let's go!

Hello! We're very glad to inform you that Eddie Android edition 3.3.0 beta 2 is now available. Link on the announcement first post has been updated accordingly. Thank you very much if you decide to test this new version and report any problem and bug you experience! New in beta 2: all the beta 1 reported by testers problems have been addressed replaced code with lambda expressions in all classes and where applicable additional bug fixes linked against the latest OpenVPN3-AirVPN library (20250911) all deprecated by Google classes replaced Kind regards

Hello! We're very glad to inform you that two new 10 Gbit/s full duplex servers located in Zurich, Switzerland, are available: Athebyne and Toliman. The AirVPN client will show automatically the new servers; if you use any other OpenVPN or WireGuard client you can generate all the files to access them through our configuration/certificates/key generator (menu "Client Area"->"Config generator"). The servers accept connections on ports 53, 80, 443, 1194, 2018 UDP and TCP for OpenVPN and ports 1637, 47107 and 51820 UDP for WireGuard. They support OpenVPN over SSL and OpenVPN over SSH, TLS 1.3, OpenVPN tls-crypt and WireGuard. Full IPv6 support is included as well. As usual no traffic limits, no logs, no discrimination on protocols and hardened security against various attacks with separate entry and exit-IP addresses. You can check the status as usual in our real time servers monitor : https://airvpn.org/servers/Athebyne https://airvpn.org/servers/Toliman Do not hesitate to contact us for any information or issue. Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Staff

Just want to update this. Looks like speeds are stable after last maintenance, didn't get any faster, but they look like they used to, so it's good enough! Here's some speed tests from this week: As you can see, ~300Mbps down/up average throughout the week, with some highs of ~600/400Mbps down/up and lows of ~100Mbps Also, the server load is definitely better From constant +1900Mbits to ~500-1000Mbits, thanks for the maintenance, everything looking stable now.

Hello! Unfortunately we have no updates at the moment and no ETA for operations resume. The problem is that the server network doesn't work properly, showing significant packet loss to and from all IP addresses. The datacenter technicians have been warned, of course, and we're waiting for their intervention and feedback. Kind regards

Hello! Have you tested the AirVPN Suite for Linux? It should behave properly when systemd-resolved is installed but disabled, because for DNS management it does not invoke resolvconf (needed by WireGuard for this purpose). Kind regards

It's also possible that systemd-resolved is installed but not enabled. Try sudo systemctl enable --now systemd-resolved before taking the DNS directive from the wireguard file. Source: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1732487

If the above failed, try installing systemd-resolved using sudo dnf install systemd-resolved, then try raising the interface using the systemctl method again

Try copying the file to /etc/wireguard and doing sudo systemctl start wg-quick@wg . This should bypass freedesktop and enable you to raise the interface. You can replace "wg" in systemctl start wg-quick@wg with whatever name your config file is. I use wg because your file is named wg.conf, but I do recommend renaming it after the airvpn server you are using, or some other nickname you have for it, like america. So, try copying it as america.conf into /etc/wireguard, then doing systemctl start wg-quick@america. If it fails, do systemctl status wg-quick@america and show the logs here

Hello! We're very glad to inform you that two new 3 Gbit/s (full duplex) server located in San José, CA (USA) are available: Bunda and Imai. UPDATE: upgraded to 10 Gbit/s full duplex 2025-08-18 They support OpenVPN over SSL and OpenVPN over SSH, TLS 1.3, OpenVPN tls-crypt and WireGuard. The AirVPN client will show automatically the new servers; if you use any other OpenVPN or WireGuard client you can generate all the files to access it through our configuration/certificates/key generator (menu "Client Area"->"Config generator"). The servers accept connections on ports 53, 80, 443, 1194, 2018 UDP and TCP for OpenVPN and ports 1637, 47107 and 51820 UDP for WireGuard. Full IPv6 support is included as well. As usual no traffic limits, no logs, no discrimination on protocols and hardened security against various attacks with separate entry and exit-IP addresses and 4096 bit DH key not shared with any other VPN server. You can check the status in our real time servers monitor: https://airvpn.org/servers/Bunda https://airvpn.org/servers/Imai Do not hesitate to contact us for any information or issue. Kind regards and datalove AirVPN Staff

I don't touch MAC products unfortunately. You can try the 2 options from here though. https://www.lifewire.com/mac-reset-network-settings-8680125

Hello! VPNs are not in the scope of both the legislation and trivial tech considerations, as we don't have the keys for the communications: chat, instant messages and e-mails are encrypted end-to-end without our keys, but with the keys of the parties and/or the keys of the service offering e-mail / chat / messaging service, so we can't decrypt anything in any case. With that said, this abomination must be fought. We repute it is incompatible with the Charter of Fundamental Rights and with various CJEU decisions on data retention and privacy. We feel to share the position and the consideration offered by Tuta and EDRi here and here: https://tuta.com/blog/chat-control-criticism https://edri.org/our-work/most-criticised-eu-law-of-all-time/ Unfortunately, opposition has become more difficult because big AI actors see chat control as a great opportunity and they have spent tens of millions to lobby in favor of this abominable regulation. This is the main explanation that tells you why various politicians have changed their positions. Kind regards

I never had any issues with Mullvad. The only reason I left was because they got rid of port forwarding. AirVPN has been great so far as a replacement.

Hopefully, AirVPN will look into adding another server or getting a 10GB server as New Zealand has quite fast bandwidth speeds for the region so if the servers are as busy as they are people's bandwidth will be highly restricted. Also, since Australia is introducing more draconian laws, there will probably be more demand in the near future.

Hello, I would like some information regarding the possibility of AirVPN collecting IP addresses. AirVPN does not collect IP addresses by default, but would it be possible to set up a protocol dedicated to analyzing the behavior of a single user in particular following a judicial request? ProtonVPN makes it very clear how this logging works “upon judicial request”: https://protonvpn.com/blog/can-be-tracked-using-vpn#police Switzerland is a jurisdiction I'm familiar with, which doesn't allow a VPN provider to start recording logs about users. Is it the same in Italy? Can AirVPN staff comment on the legal requests they receive, and if they are forced to start a specific logging on a user at the request of justice? Does Italian law prevent this, or has it happened in the past? I'm an AirVPN user and I support the project being an activist too. These are just legitimate questions that I hope will be addressed by the staff. @Staff Good day to all

Well, most probably not. AirVPN's measure was to simply cease providing service to Italy to render themselves out of scope of Piracy Shield. All the server locations are subject to the laws of those server locations.If you're not in Italy, you're anyway free from any of the worries you stated. Italian authorities asking for info on someone who is not in Italy, or simply connected to a server not in Italy, is just plain impossible on so many levels. They can try, of course, but it'll probably never pass. Also, torrenting as the #1 reason around here to connect to the VPN might be a crime, too, but it's not terrorism justifying hunting people to the end of the world. Clearly define what you want to be protected against and ask the forums for measures you can take; there'll be tons of recommendations. But curb your paranoia, it is not productive. The prevalent recommendation even across these forums is not to use the VPN alone. Always combine with Tor if you need the safety, and harden whatever apps you want to use over it, most importantly the browser. Mass tracking is done by automated tracking measures such as browser fingerprinting against which a VPN won't help you. This tracking is done to generate money out of you, not for surveillance or some such, anyway.

Nice job! So now you are into your own network and the server/service is handing out the unauthorized status based on a local ACL. You are on your way! Happy hunting!

Sounds like you are making great progress, congrats! It sounds to me like everything is working as it should now, so we need to either: reset your expectations and correct your assumptions, or have you communicate why you think something should work a certain way or what your goals are. Putting your first and third posts together, it sounds like you expect to see the WebGUI on multiple ports. Can you explain why you would want that? I'm not going to say you couldn't engineer that, but I'm going to challenge your thinking here. Let's assume your machine has a local network static IP of 10.77.77.42; you access the WebGUI with http://10.77.77.42:8082 right? Why do you need additional access on port 27586? Are you trying to admin qBittorrent from outside your network? You haven't stated that before which is why I ask. Many users are uncomfortable exposing their WebGUI to the world, so you need to be clear that this is your desire (and secure it with https before doing so!). How many ports do you have forwarded from AirVPN? Are ports 8082 and 27586 in pool #2 (saving pool #1 ports for P2P users is the goal here)? Your line "FIREWALL_VPN_INPUT_PORTS=8082,27586,27587" isn't going to work unless all three of those ports are forwarded from AirVPN. I believe the most common use case is to only forward the torrenting port from pool #1 (27587) keeping the WebGUI port just for local network use. Lets check your devices to ensure they are not an issue. When you go to the devices screen have you set up a device? Then in the ports screen is that device linked to the port (in the dropdown)? And when making your config file did you select that device? When working correctly, the sessions screen should list your device at the top of the card when connected.

It would probably be faster for everyone to simply show you my stack: # This is a P2P demonstration stack template which has been tested to work well with AirVPN as of January 2025. # Use AirVPN's config generator to obtain your specific values (https://airvpn.org/generator). Make sure to specify your device. # Remember that the indentation of a Docker Compose file is important. services: gluetun: image: qmcgaw/gluetun:latest container_name: gluetun cap_add: - NET_ADMIN devices: - /dev/net/tun:/dev/net/tun environment: - VPN_SERVICE_PROVIDER=airvpn - VPN_TYPE=wireguard - WIREGUARD_PUBLIC_KEY= # copy from config file - WIREGUARD_PRIVATE_KEY= # copy from config file - WIREGUARD_PRESHARED_KEY= # copy from config file - WIREGUARD_ADDRESSES= # copy from config file - SERVER_REGIONS= # optional, comma seperated list, no spaces after commas, make sure it matches the config you created - SERVER_COUNTRIES= # optional, comma seperated list, no spaces after commas, make sure it matches the config you created - SERVER_CITIES= # optional, comma seperated list, no spaces after commas, make sure it matches the config you created - FIREWALL_VPN_INPUT_PORTS= # mandatory, the port number AirVPN forwarded for you (from pool #1) should appear here - TZ= # choose timezone value from list at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones (e.g.: Asia/Tokyo) ports: - 8080:8080 # qbittorrent web GUI, port number can be changed BUT it must match WEBUI_PORT in qbittorrent service environment - (port forwarded from AirVPN):(port forwarded from AirVPN) # also place in TORRENTING_PORT field in qbittorrent service environment restart: unless-stopped qbittorrent: image: lscr.io/linuxserver/qbittorrent:latest container_name: qbittorrent depends_on: gluetun: condition: service_healthy restart: true environment: - PUID= # your desired user's number - PGID= # your desired user's group number - TZ= # choose timezone value from list at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones - WEBUI_PORT=8080 # must match "qbittorrent web GUI" port number in gluetun's service above - TORRENTING_PORT=(port forwarded from AirVPN) # must match forwarded port number in gluetun's service above volumes: - /mnt/(your folder structure here):/config # directory you want to save your qbittorrent config files - /mnt/(your folder structure here):/downloads # qbittorrent download location restart: unless-stopped network_mode: "service:gluetun" # this is what forces qbittorrent to only use the VPN connection from gluetun Hope this helps!

Some differences between yours and mine are: I also use Wireguard and I have "- WIREGUARD_PUBLIC_KEY=[redacted]" and you don't; I don't have any volumes set up, everything in the docker compose; You aren't specifying the latest image, consider using "qmcgaw/gluetun:latest"; I do not use CIDR notation for the "WIREGUARD_ADDRESSES" and you do, consider trying it without the "/32"; Are you sure your forwarded port is in AirVPN's pool #1? For P2P it has to be. For qBittorrent: again use the latest: "lscr.io/linuxserver/qbittorrent:latest" consider adding the following for robustness: "depends_on: gluetun: condition: service_healthy restart: true" You don't have "TORRENTING_PORT=[your pool #1 port number]"; Its usually best to have these in the same stack, not separate containers. Keep trying, it DOES work.

Provide sub-regions for US region, perhaps useast.airvpn.org, uscentral.airvpn.org, and uspacific.airvpn.org? This will minimize latency on games that try to connect you to the closest server by having your exit ip to be in the same area. Manually managing the different local region servers is a pain when some are offline while others have high packet loss. It would be nice to be connected to the best performing local region server and not the one across the country.

Works for me with the direct link. Source: https://airvpn.org/mirrors/eddie.website/download/?platform=android&version=latest Override source: Direct APK link

Hi, yeah no worries since I am only going to use one connection I can still use this port or I will just request another port for a different device? Anyhow this is the fixed config... I was stupid reading forum entries on how to set it up when it was all correctly stated in the readme.... : version: "3" services: gluetun: image: qmcgaw/gluetun cap_add: - NET_ADMIN networks: mvl-200: ipv4_address: 10.60.1.5 ports: - 41870:41870 - 41870:41870/udp - 80:80 environment: - VPN_SERVICE_PROVIDER=airvpn - VPN_TYPE=wireguard - WIREGUARD_PRIVATE_KEY=xxxxxxxxxxxx - WIREGUARD_PRESHARED_KEY=xxxxxxxxxxxx - WIREGUARD_ADDRESSES=xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - SERVER_COUNTRIES=Netherlands - FIREWALL_VPN_INPUT_PORTS=xxxxxxxxxxxx volumes: - /media/glueton:/gluetun maybe somebody as dumb as me googles this and it helps^^

Sorry for the late reply. Yes, I did find a solution. Have a look at the discussions starting from here, between user NaDre and me: It's quite long and a bit "stream of consciousness-y" but in the end it led me to a working solution where I can use the VPN for torrent clients (those supporting the binding to a specific interface, that is) and Firefox (using a proxy server I installed, as discussed in that thread).

Okay, it's in Wireguard itself. Many thanks! I had selected the <ca> and i need the <cert> after changing everything works! I had to look in the logs to see if Gluetun uses TCP, and it does. A test-torrent go's very slow, when i test another Linux test-torrent it go's with almost the max of my downloadspeed.

Excellent to see AirVPN give a detailed rationale for the inquiry. Bravo.

You might have better luck with this: https://github.com/tool-maker/VPN_just_for_torrents/wiki/Running-OpenVPN-on-Windows-without-VPN-as-Default-Gateway You add routing table entries to put the original default gateway back in effect (using a provided script - copy and paste). And then bind the torrent client to the VPN interface (or address) to have it use the VPN. I have used this (I wrote the scripts there) for many years.

AIRVPN DOES NOT RECOGNIZE ANYMORE VERISIGN, AFILIAS AND ICANN AUTHORITY. OUR COMMITMENT AGAINST UNITED STATES OF AMERICA UNFAIR AND ILLEGAL DOMAIN NAMES SEIZURES. The United States of America authorities have been performing domain names seizures since the end of 2010. The seizures have been performed against perfectly legal web-sites and/or against web-sites outside US jurisdiction. Administrators of some of those web-sites had been previously acquitted of any charge by courts in the European Union. The domain name seizures affect the world wide web in its entirety since they are performed bypassing the original registrar and forcing VeriSign and Afilias (american companies which administer TLDs like .org, .net, .info and .com) to transfer the domain name to USA authorities property. No proper judicial overview is guaranteed during the seizure. Given all of the above, we repute that these acts: - are a violation of EU citizens fundamental rights, as enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights; - are an attack against the Internet infrastructure and the cyberspace; - are a strong hint which shows that decision capacities of USA Department of Justice and ICE are severely impaired; and therefore from now on AirVPN does not recognize VeriSign, Afilias and/or ICANN authority over domain names. AirVPN refuses to resolve "seized" domain names to the IP address designated by USA authorities, allowing normal access to the original servers' websites / legitimate Ip addresses. In order to fulfil the objective, we have put in place an experimental service which is already working fine. If you find anomalies, please let us know, the system will surely improve in time. Kind regards AirVPN admins

Thank you, Thank you ! That was exactly what I was hoping for and it went perfectly ! Three More Years !! Keep up the great work

It is NOT possible to have three days recurring subscriptions. They do not make much sense and we explicitly forbid this option. Kind regards