AirVPN
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Website: www.airvpn.org
Price: From 4.08 Euro / Month.(If purchased via 12-month plan) Accepts Bitcoins.
Coupon / Discount: 10% Off* (Use AirVPN coupon code bvfu_10)
Our Rating: – 96.6%
Protection: 5/5
Software / GUI: 4.5/5
Features: 4.5/5
Speed: 5/5
Ease of Use: 5/5
Service Overview and Reviews
Protocols: OpenVPN, Wireguard
Service: AirVPN provides OpenVPN with 200+ high performance servers in 20 countries (inc. US, UK, Europe & Asia) with no traffic, time or speed limits.
Anonymity is an absolute priority of AirVPN and it was created and maintained by activists who strongly support Net Neutrality and privacy. IPs are shared and every protocol is welcome, including P2P across their entire network.
AirVPN allows you to do remote port forwarding enhancing the performance of applications like BitTorrent, eMule, and other P2P clients.
They’ve done a top-notch job supporting a wide array of platforms and providing clear and detailed instructions. Supported platforms and configs are Windows, OSX, Linux, Android, IOS (iPhone, iPad, and iPod), DD-WRT, Tomato, AsusWRT, pfSense, TOR, and SSH and SSL Tunnels.
AirVPN is also one of the few VPN providers to pull off a smooth and full-fledged Linux client, which is great to see.
If using an Ubuntu distro, see this post for some installation tips.
AirVPN allows customers to access a number of popular geo-restricted services from any server in the world, for example to watch BBC and use BBC iPlayer without having to connect to their UK servers, or access Hulu without having to connect to their USA servers etc.
Every server includes native support of OpenVPN over SSH to finally give full VPN access to customers and users from China and Iran and to bypass OpenVPN traffic shaping performed by some (very rare) Western ISPs. (Fully and successfully tested from Beijing , Shangai and Tehran residential ISPs.)
AirVPN allows up to 5 simultaneous connections (on different servers) per account! Also includes a “killswitch” feature called Network Lock.
AirVPN accepts multiple payment options:-
Paypal, Stripe (Visa, Mastercard, Maestro, etc) and Amazon pay. Also cryptocurrencies:- Bitcoin, Litecoin, Bitcoin cash, Doge and Monero.
Recent major backend system upgrade, which included general hardening of security and anonymity, additional Heartbleed-type vulnerability protections, enhanced cryptography, added TLS-auth layer, etc.
All servers are based on RAM disks for additional security. They perform a minimal boot to bring up the TCP/IP stack, the network and a few essential related services, and then they download all the vital files and keys via network.
IPMI and similar interfaces are never exposed to the Internet for additional security. They are accessible only through a private network.
In addition AirVPN now provides:-
- WireGuard support
- DoH and DoT
- opt-in block lists to stop ads, trackers etc., with powerful flexibility, including options to combine lists and enter customized exceptions and/or additional blocks with wildcard support
- new 10 Gbit/s dedicated lines and servers in Swiss, Sweden and Texas (USA)
- new 10 Gbit/s dedicated lines and servers in Bulgaria and the Netherlands
- rewritten port forwarding system now allows to reserve specific inbound ports to specific devices
- rewritten DDNS system now allows name resolution for specific devices. Therefore it is now possible to have multiple domain names which resolve correctly for each connected device (previously you could have 1 DDNS based name, now you can have a maximum of 20)
Fully compliant with the European Union directives which protect your privacy.
Privacy: AirVPN does not monitor and does not log your activity online. See their Policy/Terms/FAQ
Coupon / Discount:* We have negotiated a special discount of 10% with AirVPN. Insert the AirVPN coupon code bvfu_10 just before the checkout to receive your discount.
Our Thoughts: AirVPN provides an excellent service with great speeds across a wide network. Their privacy policy is one of the strongest and most transparent and they are one of the few VPN Service providers who accept various cryptocurrencies. The client software is both excellent and very easy to use, connections rarely drop and speeds are very fast.
AirVPN User Reviews
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AirVPN Speed Test Results
AirVPN Speed Test
Below you can see our testing results for AirVPN. For more details of how we conduct our speed tests go to VPN Speed Tests.
Test PC #1 – United States – OS (Ubuntu 11.10) – ISP (Cox)
SpeedTest.net (Chromium) | Location | Ping | Download | Upload |
Not Using VPN | United States | 31 | 22.13 | 5.20 |
OpenVPN | Sweden | 205 | 11.54 | 4.58 |
OpenVPN | United States | 161 | 11.04 | 6.37 |
OpenVPN | Netherlands | 171 | 11.19 | 4.54 |
OpenVPN | United Kingdom | 178 | 9.13 | 5.81 |
Download Test (Curl) | Location | File Size | Av. Speed/sec | Time/mins |
Not Using VPN | United States | 620M | 1445K | 07:19 |
OpenVPN | Sweden | 620M | 1122K | 09:25 |
OpenVPN | United States | 620M | 1163K | 09:05 |
OpenVPN | Netherlands | 620M | 1011K | 10:27 |
OpenVPN | United Kingdom | 620M | 1114K | 09:29 |
P2P Test (Deluge) | Location | File Size | Av. Speed/sec | Time/mins |
Not Using VPN | United States | 695Mb | 1.69Mb | 06:51 |
OpenVPN | Sweden | 695Mb | 1.49Mb | 07:48 |
OpenVPN | United States | 695Mb | 1.55Mb | 07:30 |
OpenVPN | Netherlands | 695Mb | 1.58Mb | 07:19 |
OpenVPN | United Kingdom | 695Mb | 1.55Mb | 07:19 |
Test PC #2 – United Kingdom – OS (Win 7) – ISP (Sky)
SpeedTest.net (Firefox) | Location | Ping | Download | Upload |
Not Using VPN | United Kingdom | 32 | 10.56 | 0.94 |
OpenVPN | Sweden | 71 | 9.77 | 0.87 |
OpenVPN | United States | 127 | 7.54 | 0.86 |
OpenVPN | Netherlands | 40 | 9.79 | 0.87 |
OpenVPN | United Kingdom | 35 | 9.79 | 0.87 |
Download Test (Curl) | Location | File Size | Av. Speed/sec | Time/mins |
Not Using VPN | United Kingdom | 620M | 1241k | 08:31 |
OpenVPN | Sweden | 620M | 1049k | 10:05 |
OpenVPN | United States | 620M | 907k | 11:40 |
OpenVPN | Netherlands | 620M | 1162k | 09:06 |
OpenVPN | United Kingdom | 620M | 1161k | 09:06 |
P2P Test (uTorrent) | Location | File Size | Av. Speed/sec | Time/mins |
Not Using VPN | United Kingdom | 695Mb | 1.1Mb | 10:22 |
OpenVPN | Sweden | 695Mb | 0.93Mb | 12:52 |
OpenVPN | United States | 695Mb | 1.0Mb | 11:34 |
OpenVPN | Netherlands | 695Mb | 0.86Mb | 14:01 |
OpenVPN | United Kingdom | 695Mb | 0.99Mb | 12:16 |
After reading many articles, gathering information and the very helpful editorial
on torrentfreak dot com, I came to the decision that Air VPN has the best service,
reliability and secure for a good price. And after a test period, I’ll even say, there
are more expensive vpns out there, that are less reliable.
It’s good to have a reliable method to counter censorship and the prosecution of
free democratic thoughts.
Very good vpn. fast and reliable. no logs!
Back again after the initial three months test period. Upgraded for full year.
In three months had on average one disconnect per month, however, two I suspect were the ISPs fault, only one due to VPN, when after trying to reconnect there seemed no servers available for about an hour, so that was probably due to some software update gone awry or so; this is why I rated one star less than 100% in that category.
Still needed no support, but rated one star less than full rating since AirVPN did not send reminder for lapse of 3-month booking period. However, others might rate this reticence as a positive seeing that unwarranted promotion emails are flooding the internet.
One thing seems odd: the session time shown in the little app window seems not to be corrected for time zones. Example: if your time zone is “plus two hours” as against theirs then in minute ZERO after connecting it will show you were connected for TWO hours, if the difference is one hour, it would show one hour at minute zero. In other words, after a NET of THREE hours your session statistics would erroneously show you were connected FIVE (or FOUR hours respectively).
Other than that, which does not affect service quality, the service is highly satisfactory which is why we extended for one year.
So far this has delivered exactly as promised. Very happy with this product after extensive research into VPN’s.
AirVPN has been fantastic for me. Very few disconnects, high speeds, and a selection of servers. I’m more and more impressed as the months go by.
Geat service!!!!for all aspect.
Is it safe to select US servers for torrenting on this service?
Yes it should be fine as far as we know. According to Air, their US servers have the same level of protection as all other servers. No logs of activity, no logs of your source ip, etc. Also, all traffic routed through their servers are pooled with other users and the IP address is shared. So really, Air wouldn’t even know what user to forward a DMCA notice to if they got one.
However, just to be courteous to AirVPN and their providers, you might consider still avoiding the US servers for that if you can. The reason is DMCA notices are still likely a hassle to mess with on the back end, and US servers are always prime targets for copyright trolls. Air might not even care, but we imagine it’s probably helpful so they don’t risk having to constantly change service providers.
Extremely satisfied.
Only thing is that they only support OpenVPN which means you can’t use it for your iPhone or iPad. For this use you will have to use another VPN-Provider.
Hello!
Now iOS (iPhone, iPod, iPad) is fully supported. An official OpenVPN client by OpenVPN Technologies is available in the Apple store.
Kind regards
Does all it says. A good product at a good price.
I also did the DNS leak tests and Air VPN came out fine.
Didn’t rate the support category as I did not yet need it nor maybe ever will.
As for the rest, I can say after a few weeks using their service that it has not failed me except for a short period (under an hour) where airvpn was completely offline for reasons I don’t know. The protection as e.g. per dnsleaktest seems 100%, also from other angles I can’t discuss. One asterisk less for the reliability issue mentioned otherwise it would be a full rating. Speed is ok for me, the rating just reflects my knowledge that there are even faster services – however, at the price of 15 Euros per three months for airvpn they would be pricier so under that aspect they deserved a full 100% really …
Having read many many reviews on various VPN providers, almost always with some harsh comments from disgruntled users so far airvpn seems the only one that I would feel 100% well about and has me sleep undisturbed …
One problem that is not specific to airvpn but all vpn tunnels: if your ISP resets your IP you may lose contact to your VPN. That then makes most software (browsers, torrents etc.) revert to the normal gateway (cf. “route print” command in Windows/DOS) and that then exposes your “real” IP since the VPN will not reconnect seeing you are “another machine”. You should therefore delete the standard gateway AFTER the VPN has taken over, e.g. via batch file (“route delete” with admin rights – initially airvpn needs that standard gateway to create the tunnel, so delete afterwards). If the VPN then breaks down, the Internet remains “dead” for all software despite the cable still being connected.
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