A bit over a year ago I bought a 12 month sub to NordVPN. Later I realized I couldn’t port forward back through the VPN. The other annoyance was that I had to always connect and disconnect prior to starting qbittorrent and after stopping, because I didn’t want other traffic to use the VPN.
So with the Nord sub expiring I bought one month of AirVPN for testing. Port forwarding is working and I was also able to use WireSock to setup split tunneling so that only my bittorent traffic goes through the VPN. This seems like just what I need, but are there other options I should consider? Any reason this split tunneling setup could be a problem?
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Ive been a sub for 6+ years, and would recommend them.
Reliable connections, near line speed for usenet/highly seeded content, multiple open source clients, port redirection and other customizations.
I’ve been happy with my air vpn for a few years
I recently switched to AirVPN after IPvanish blocked port forwarding and it’s been great so far
I’ve just tested (litterally) AirVPN with a 2€ subscription, and what I can say is that, from France, speeds are anything but exceptional… I tried dozens of Netherlands/Germany/Belgium servers and it was rare to get above 150mb/s in, upload, download was generally a bit faster like 250, nothing crazy.
Curious about this as well. Was just getting ready to move over from TorGuard hoping to get faster downloads.
Moved from Nord to AirVPN for port forwarding. Connection and speed has been stable. I hit ~600Mbps while my line is 1.5Gbps. I use WG config and setup connection on my router without using any client apps. Unless AirVPN drops port forwarding or the services deteriorates, I’m gonna stick with them
I heard nothing but great things about AirVPN but I can’t get their software to work for me, having to go through terminal (on Mac) and followed the steps and yeah just couldn’t get anything to happen. Probably too advanced for a simple mind like mine lol so I explained to them that I’m dumb and for whatever reason the step by step instructions weren’t working and so they happily refunded me. Pleasant experience and I’m sure even more pleasant for those who can get it to work lol
Same for me im new to AirVPN and happy better speeds then most outher vpns ive tested the past moths, (1gbit) some vpns i only get 300-500, thing i get around 700 with airvpn
Ah that’s interesting. Can you set that up so that there is a separate gateway for VPN traffic so that you could bind your bittorrent client for example to the VPN gateway network but other traffic doesn’t use the VPN?
Sorry it didn’t work for you, but I’m glad they didn’t give you the runaround.
Absolutely. You can have a VLAN with wired or wireless access with policy based routing. A kill switch will disconnect if VPN connection drops. I have this setup running flawlessly for 2 years now.
Edit: VLAN, PBR and Kill switch are general networking concepts and are not AirVPN specific