Overview

AirVPN is an OpenVPN and WireGuard based VPN operated by activists in defense of net neutrality, privacy and against censorship. AirVPN's impenetrable tunnel prevents criminal organizations, the user's ISP or even the user's government from spying on his private communications. AirVPN began as a humble project in 2010 of a very small group of activists, hacktivists, with the invaluable (and it was totally free!) help of two fantastic lawyers and a financing from a company interested in the project and operated by the very same people.

Starting from the two dedicated servers in one country (operated by Iridium, a company which was born in 1998 and that employed, in the telecommunication field, only persons involved in digital or non-digital civil activism), AirVPN is now operated exclusively by activists, privacy, data protection and security issues aware persons, law experts with the help of the same lawyers, and counts more than 200 servers with high bandwidth lines and good or top hardware in 35 datacenters across 19 countries in 3 continents. The solidity of the infrastructure is enhanced literally every week, so that most attacks (UDP and TCP flood, DDoS...) that caused service issues in the first AirVPN year of life now remain totally unnoticed to the users.
 
 


AirVPN Transparency
AirVPN is the only VPN in the world which transparently let anyone access a servers monitor on the www, updated every 60 seconds, to check the infrastructure status and verify that we respect our no-overselling and guaranteed allocated bandwidth commitments stated in the ToS. 


Separate [u]entry and exit IP addresses on every VPN server[/u] 
AirVPN also provides some features which might go unnoticed to the masses but which are important, such as separate entry and exit IP addresses on every VPN server to prevent some correlation attacks, typical on VPNs with a shared IP which is used both as entry and exit-IP address.


In comparison to such giants of the VPN sector, AirVPN is "tiny" (as they put it)but a small "miracle" in consideration of the no-security-compromise policies: 

1. No PPTP, no whistles and bells to mislead gullible customers
2. No investments in advertising, harsh contrasts against a project of sharing data with an association of VPN operators "to prevent frauds and improper use of the services", boycott from several ISPs due to our no-compromise network neutrality and privacy policy
3. No bribes for favorable reviews in some web sites.


 



AirVPN Client - Eddie

Eddie is a free and open source (GPLv3) OpenVPN and WireGuard wrapper with additional features like:
 

• User-friendly UI
  
• Multiplatform support: Windows, macOS, Android, GNU/Linux (with particular effort to support a lot of distro) with multiple architectures: x64, x86, armv7i, aarch64 (Raspberry)
  
• Censorship counter-measures, like tunnel over SSH, over SSL, direct Tor integration
  
• Network lock / leak prevention
  
• Advanced options for DNS, routing, events, leak etc.
  
• Customizable actions triggered by events
  
• CLI edition
  

Eddie is the official client of AirVPN. While Eddie is focused on usage simplicity and quick responsiveness, it also includes features which can be appreciated by the advanced users, such as full control on OpenVPN directives, custom directives and custom routes. It's integrated with AirVPN VPN service (required for some feature like tunnel over SSH/SSL), but can be used standalone with any OpenVPN or WireGuard provider (tick Preferences -> Advanced -> Multi provider to add other providers or even remove AirVPN).


 
 

• No traffic limit. No time limit. Access to all of our exit-nodes.
  
  
  
• Five simultaneous connections per account.
  
  
  
• Unlimited and free servers switches.
  
  
  
• High performance servers in many countries
  
  
  
• Optional block lists protecting you from ads, adware, trackers and malicious sources.
  
  
  
• No maximum speed limit, it depends only on the server load (see here). Minimum allocated granted bandwidth: 4 Mbit/s download + 4 Mbit/s upload.
  
  
  
• Every protocol is welcome, including p2p. Forwarded ports and DDNS to optimize your software.
  
  
  
• No personal information required. When you open an account, you are not forced to enter any personal data, not even a real e-mail address.
  
  
  
• Transparent policies on bandwidth allocation in order to give you an exact evaluation of the performance you can achieve: no overbooking, no overselling.
  
  
  
• We use OpenVPN and WireGuard to establish the connection between your computer and our servers. OpenVPN is the most reliable and secure solution for encrypted tunnels. Forget PPTP or other insecure protocols.
  
  AirVPN offers OpenVPN on ports 80 TCP / UDP, 443 TCP / UDP and 53 TCP / UDP. Additionally, every Air server supports directly OpenVPN over SSH, OpenVPN over SSL and OpenVPN over Tor. This means that even the most brutal techniques of monitoring, censorship, throttling and traffic shaping will fail against AirVPN, because your ISP and your government will see only TCP or UDP traffic on a unique port.
  
  
  
• Fully compliant with the European Union legal framework protecting your privacy: Directive on Data Protection (95/46/EC), Directive concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy (2002/58/EC) and General Data Protection Regulation (EU Regulation 2016/579)
  
  
  
• API - Application Programming Interface
  
  
  
• Help us cover our mission
  

 


 

Surf Anonymously
Protection against snoopers, data miners and privacy intrusive entities
 

• Hide your IP - Get a new IP address, so that nobody can discover your identity through it
  
• No monitoring nor logging of your online activities
  
• Perfect Forward Secrecy - Through Diffie-Hellman key exchange DHE. After the initial key negotiation, re-keying is performed every 60 minutes (this value can be lowered unilaterally by the client)
  
• Additional connection types, supported by every Air VPN server, for ISPs or countries disrupting OpenVPN, are OpenVPN over SSH, SSL or Tor
  
• Stay protected with the security offered by very strong encryption, 4096 bit DH and RSA keys size, AES-256-GCM or CHACHA20-POLY1305 encryption cipher.
  
• Make it impossible to identify the type of traffic or protocol you are using, even for your ISP.
  
• Connect to any wireless network without risking data eavesdropping between your computer and the WiFi hotspot.
  

Defeat restrictions
Circumvent censorship, georestriction and traffic shaping. 
 

• All protocols allowed - No discrimination toward any service, protocol or application.
  
• Internal VPN DNS based on root servers anti-ICE/ICANN censorship
  
  
• Port Forwarding / DDNS
   - Without port forwarding, the performance of some applications, for example BitTorrent and eMule clients, would be severely impaired and the services on your computer would not be reachable from the Internet
  

 


AirVPN has a small network  having 200+ servers in 22 countries that are spread out over 40 locations. Most of AirVPN’s servers are located in Europe and North America, as well as in Singapore and Japan. Eddie displays the server load percentage, which measures how many active users are connected to a server (the lower the server load, the faster the connection speeds). These provided speed metrics help users identify the fastest servers and supports torrenting on all servers allowing the user to "quickly" pick servers that are likely to provide faster speeds. The AirVPN site server link shows statistics of all AirVPN servers. Statistics are updated every 5 minutes. The Eddie client continuously pings each server of the VPN service, and also provides a rank of each server. Scores are computed on following parameters: average ping/latency; average load; average users; recent disconnections or failed retries; known issues; ISP reliability.

 


Server Metrics and Server selection
For simplification and for faster selection of servers to use, the user can change the "Scoring rule" of the Servers to "Latency". This can be done by selecting the "Scoring rule toggle" located at the bottom right of the "Servers" page (Preferences > Servers). Then it is advised to "sort" the latency list to place the best 5 servers on top. To sort the list, user should click the "latency Column header". See image below. 
 
 



The AirVPN "Network Lock" is based on strict firewalls rules contrary to several so called "kill switches" and VPN check monitoring processes (which don't do anything while connection is on and become totally useless if they crash). With "Network Lock" strict firewall-based rules, the protection against leaks is active even when the connection is detected as "on" (regardless it is really "on" or not), even if Eddie could not work anymore and even if you mis-configured by accident a listening service binding it to a physical network card. If Eddie/OpenVPN/WireGuard stops unexpectedly leak prevention is assured because of the strict firewall rules of the Network Lock. 
 
 



 

WHAT'S NEW in Eddie client version 2.21.8 STABLE
 

• [bugfix] [windows] "Network interface no more available" in some situation
  
• [bugfix] [all] Minor bugfixes
  

WHAT'S NEW in Eddie client (Windows Edition) version 2.24.4  EXPERIMENTAL / NOT STABLE
 

• [bugfix] [windows] Fixed an issue with portable edition 2.24.3
  
• [change] [all] Minor improvements
  
• [change] [all] Migration from DotNet7 to DotNet8
  

The complete changelog page of Eddie client is HERE. 



 



Eddie 3.0 for Android preview features WireGuard full integration with AirVPN, a thorough improvement on network management to provide additional robustness on network switching and re-connections, an exclusive option to access local network even when connecting over WireGuard and a dark theme. When compared with OpenVPN3-AirVPN library or OpenVPN3 and on agnostic networks, performance is remarkably higher and battery life is approximately 15-20% longer, even when the throughput is slightly higher. 

 


 
 

• Compatible with all Android versions ranging from 5.1 to 15
  
  
• Full WireGuard support and integration with AirVPN
  
  
• Battery-conscious application
  
  
• Low RAM footprint
  
  
• Ergonomic and friendly interface
  
  
• Ability to start and connect the application at device bootstrap
  
  
• GPS spoofing
  
  
• Traffic splitting and reverse traffic splitting on an application basis. You can define which apps must have traffic inside or outside the VPN tunnel through white and black list.
  
  
• Localization in simplified and traditional Chinese, Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish.
  
  
• Full integration with AirVPN
  
  
• Quick tile button
  
  
• Enhanced security thanks to locally stored encrypted data through optional master password.
  
  
• Quick one-tap connection and smart, fully automated server selection
  
• Smart server selection with custom settings.
  
  
• Manual server selection
  
  
• Ability to start and connect during device startup according to a priority list which includes automatic choice, your defined country and your defined AirVPN server.
  
  
• Smart attempts to bypass OpenVPN blocks featuring protocol and server fail-over.
  
  
• Full Android TV compatibility including D-Pad support. Mouse emulation is not required. 
  
  
• Enhancements aimed at increasing accessibility and comfort to visually impaired persons. 
  

 


All 'Eddie Android edition' users can check if the user's Real IP is shown when torrenting with his Android device. The torrent test of utilizes 'ipleak.net' is utilized the to check if the user's Real IP is shown. To test the torrent program --say, 'Flud' torrent client for Android, a magnet link provided by 'ipleak.net' should be imported in the torrent software (remember to start the torrent software after your system has already connected to AirVPN server (in thu=is case --Taiwan server --Sulafat). Once the 'magnet link' is imported in the torrent software, 'ipleak.net' will detect and show 'Flud' torrent client's advertised IP address, which must NOT be the user's real IP address. (User should refresh the page as necessary).

 
 


 



 

Eddie Android edition 3.2.1 -  Note: This is a hot fix release addressing specific issues and improving overall usage.
 

• Fixed a bug which caused an anomalous situation and a long delay when the user tried to connect to a specific server or area when no network is available
  
  
• Removed the option to disable Eddie's Persistent Notification, as disabling the persistent notification is now strongly deprecated for any VPN app because of the dangerous instability to the VPN tunnel it causes
  
  
• Fixed traffic volume counter variable overflow
  

Eddie Android edition 3.2.1 info HERE. 


 
 



 
 




 
 





 
 


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