AirVPN
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.
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
Summary
Reviews
After using AirVPN for over 6 months now I can say that it is outstanding! I can’t complain about anything. As you can tell by my rating they are good in every category. I do torrent a lot and AirVPN has never let me down. If you are looking for a VPN provider go with AirVPN!
Tip: If any of you want to use AirVPN on a Mac (like me) AirVPN has a setup guide for Tunnelblick. I could not get it to work. However I did come across a program called Viscosity that takes out all the hassle of setting up Tunnelblick and works flawlessly. The one downside is it is $9. If you can’t get Tunnelblick to work give Viscosity a try!
simply the best vpn ive used. fast reliable connection rarely drops. secure and totally anon
I did a bunch of research and found that AirVPN was the best overall provider. I’m from Canada and couldn’t find any information on whether they had a Canadian server, but I figured there would be ample US servers to connect to. To my surprise after setting everything up, which took less than 10 minutes from going to the site to connecting to their service, I found they did indeed have a Canadian server which is right in my area. The first thing I did was go to speedtest and to my surprise, the average speeds were literally no different. This frequency on my router is limited to 3Mbps as it’s shared amongst many people in a large student house, so note that their service is limited to 4Mbps. Either way, this is more than adequate for browsing, watching youtube ect.
The best part is, AirVPN is completely anon. They don’t keep any logs. You can even register with a fake name and alternate email if you’d like. The main site I was considering was HMA, but after hearing they keep logs of everything for 30days I decided it wasn’t the best route. Despite the site looking relatively basic, don’t hesitate to go with these guys. Their service is definitely what I was looking for.
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.
It217;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!
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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 |