But you won't see this information unless you go looking (it's tucked away on the Stats page), and experts may find it useful.ĪirVPN provides a staggering amount of options and fine-tuning possibilities in its settings (Image credit: AirVPN) Settings This can all look a little intimidating, especially for VPN newbies. Eddie's Stats page also shows the server location, load, number of current users, protocol, port, encryption algorithm, session start time and length, IPv6 exit address, data uploaded and downloaded, and plenty more. Most apps display, at most, your current VPN server location and IP address. It's a similar story when you're connected. It's more configurable, but also more complicated, and requires some thought to figure out how to set it up. AirVPN's alternative enables adding servers to a blocklist (where they'll never be displayed), or an allow list (the only servers you'll ever want to use). With most apps, you could get around this by adding servers to a Favorites list. That's not so convenient, although Eddie does score for detail, displaying server location, latency, load, connected users and more. To get connected to something other than Eddie's own choice of location, we had to browse a lengthy list of individual servers. You get very detailed stats on servers including load, users connected, and latency (Image credit: AirVPN) Seems like a sensible shortcut to us, but with Eddie, it does nothing at all. So, double-clicking something would connect us to a server in that country, right? Wrong. Eddie shows you country names, but also the number of servers in that country, the available bandwidth, and the number of connected users. Most apps display their locations as a simple list of countries, for instance. Easy enough, but try going further and Eddie quickly reveals its power. Launch it, then click 'Connect to a recommended server', the app connects to your nearest location, and click Disconnect when you're done. The app can be used much like any other VPN, at least in its most basic form. There's a changelog to explain what's new, and an archive of previous releases in case the most recent doesn't work for you. There are builds for specific OS versions (Windows XP through to Windows 10), in 32- and 64-bit flavors, and in installable or portable forms. AirVPN users AES-256-GCM encryption, 4096-bit RSA keys, HMAC SHA384 on the control channel, with the OpenVPN protocol supplemented by OpenVPN over SSH, SSL or Tor to help you get online in VPN-blocking countries.ĪirVPN's Windows app looks quite different to other VPN clients (Image credit: AirVPN) Windows appĪirVPN's open source app, Eddie, has far more Windows download options than we've seen anywhere else. We've no complaints about the technology, either. The company is reassuringly transparent in many other areas, though, from its open source clients to a busy community forum where you can see what existing users are talking about before you sign up. But we would still like to see AirVPN follow TunnelBear, VyprVPN, ExpressVPN and others in allowing a public audit of its service to verify what it's doing. This all sounds good to us, and overall, we see no reason for concern. The company also states that it complies with European Union privacy directives, and any servers located outside the EU will treat your data with the same or higher levels of privacy and data protection. I was lucky get get 800KB/s with the others.OpenVPN over Tor may help you get online in countries that try to block VPNs (Image credit: Tor) PrivacyĪirVPN is upfront about its no-logging policy, saying clearly that it doesn't monitor or track any of your online activities. They weren't the most popular in the world, with only a handful of seeders each, but I got on average around 3-5 MB/s download speed, which leads me to believe they don't throttle it at all. During my three day trial, I downloaded ~80GB of files via torrents. I can confirm that P2P downloading is extremely fast with AirVPN. What do you think the average person uses VPN for? It sure as hell ain't playing games online. I tried every connection on PIA and the best I could get on a popular movie over P2P was 23Kb compared to over 600 on iPredator. Unless you do download tests with actual movie files, what does it matter what the speed is, if the service is downgrading or filtering P2P activity. As I said in my response to the other article my actual download speed is 15 times faster over iPredator than the damn PIA account I bought on your advice. 16696463 said:Well Tom's suggestion that PIA was a good service was totally wrong if you are interested in actual P2P speed.
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