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AirVPN Review – Best Secure Anonymous VPN Service for Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, Linux and Routers 

AirVPN  is a Italy based VPN service provider that has implemented some genuinely exciting VPN features for the users who likes No compromise when it comes to user’s INTERNET privacy and security, and prefer more innovative powerful solution than the contemporary standard offerings at competition. AirVPN has proven this by offering all the standard features, along with some additional heart-catching security features, that you would normally expect from the most secure VPN provider of current age. I am very excited to review this provider, because the professional No-Logging policy and leading edge security and privacy system of this VPN company have significantly drawn my attention.

Whether you’re looking for a very user-friendly but at the same time tremendously secure VPN provider that is designed to cover various necessary fronts to help you browse the web anonymously, to protect you from snoopers, to help you bypass internet censorship or access region-locked and blocked content online by hiding your IP & location and browsing activities from ISP, cyber-criminals, governments or any other spying eyes, then AirVPN is a solid option that you can choose. This is a highly anonymous VPN provider that securely tunnels your internet connection to locations around the world while allowing you to access the Internet with military grade encrypted privacy being connected with their world class Dedicated private servers from all over the world.


Pricing Plans with Features

In AirVPN review, I prefer to discussed, first of all, about pricing plan with major features. It offers 5 different plans with same features: 3 days Plan, 1 Month Plan, 3 Months Plan, 6 Months Plan and 1 Year Plan. If you want to test the performance of AirVPN before purchasing long term service plan, you can purchase 3 days plan for €1 or ≈ $1.20 only. Let’s have a look at their pricing plans.

  • 3 Days Plan: €1 or ≈ $1.20
  • 1 Month Plan: €7.00/month; Save 0%
  • 3 Months Plan: €5/month (€7.00 /month); €15 for 3 Months; Save 28.5%
  • 6 Months Plan: €5/month (€7.00 /month); €30 for 6 Months; Save 28.5%
  • 1 Year Plan: €4.50/month (€7.00 /month); €54 for 1 Year; Save 35.7%

Common Features for all the Plans mentioned above

  • 216 Self Managed VPN Servers in 20 countries worldwide
  • Unlimited traffic, bandwidth and Server switching
  • Minimum 4 Mbit/s download + 4 Mbit/s upload; No Maximum
  • Signup anonymously with usernamepassword and bitcoin
  • No connection logs, No activity logs stored in VPN servers
  • World class & very Powerful VPN Client software/apps
  • Network Lock to prevent IPv4/IPv6 or WebRTC IP Leak
  • Automatic DNS Leak Protection to prevent DNS leak
  • Network-Lock as Killswitch to block all traffic when connection drops
  • OpenVPN by default with AES-256Bit-CBC encryption
  • 4096 bit RSA keys size and HMAC SHA1 Control Channel
  • OpenVPN over SSL/SSH/Tor to bypass DPI and censorship 
  • P2P/Bittorrent allowed, some servers are P2P compliant
  • 12 Internal DNS Servers with double hops to avoid censorship
  • Port-Forwarding Secrecy through diffie-Hellman key exchange
  • Up to 3 devices connection at a time allowed
  • Compatible with Windows, Mac, iOS, Android and routers
  • Multiple Payment Methods including Bitcoin
  • 3-day Money back policy adopted
  • 24/7 email/ticket Support

Go to AirVPN.org


Accepted Payment Methods

AirVPN accepts amazingly numerous number of methods for it’s users to pay for their VPN service including (but not limited to): Paypal, VISA/Master card, American Express, Discover, JCB and many other methods associated with Avangate.

It also accepts payment via not only Bitcoin, but also via many other cryptocurrencies you care to name.You can also buy any VPN plan with anyone of the following crytocurrencies (if t supports your location) like Bitcoin (BTC), Litecoin (LTC), Ripple (XRP), BlackCoin (BLK), Dash (DASH), Dogecoin (DOGE), Ether Classic (ETC), Ether (ETH), Goldcoin (GLD), NAV Coin (NAV), Namecoin (NMC), PIVX (PIVX), Peercoin (PPC), Quark (QRK), Vertcoin (VTC), Monero (XMR), PrimeCoin (XPM), ZCash (ZEC)

So, we can say, users in parts of the world otherwise often discriminated against when making international payments should encounter no problems when purchasing a subscription with AirVPN.


216 VPN Servers in 20 countries Worldwide

For a competent VPN, AirVPN offers a good number of choice in its server locations. They have self managed 216 servers spread out across 20 countries worldwide. Their authorities have full control to them and all servers are entirely managed personally by their technical staff. Admin access to servers is not provided for any third party. With unlimited speeds and unlimited server switches, you can connect from anywhere in the world.  And they’re incredibly reliable, with average uptime also. So there’s no need to worry about your VPN not being available.


Supports all Major Operating Systems and Devices

AirVPN supports for all popular operating systems including Windows, Mac OS X, iOS, Android, and Linux. While dedicated client apps are available for Linux, Mac, and Windows, detailed setup guides are available for all supported platforms.

It is also clear from the above image that  AirVPN supports several other platforms also, including DD-WRT, Tomato, pfSense, and AsusWRT routers.


Very Powerful and competent VPN Client Software/app

In this AirVPN review, I’ll depict an overview of the security and privacy level of their client software/app in detail.

AirVPN, with their dedicated team composed of talented and expert IT security personnel, has been able to develop a user-friendly but at the same time world class, innovative, impressive, competitive and very powerful VPN client software that has, with great features, one of the most secured and end-to-end encryption technology in the industry to ensure the most up-to-date, high performing and feature-rich privacy and security service. They have developed this vpn software to defeat censorship, protect your personal identity and prevent tracking you while surfing. The reasons why I said this client software world class are as below-

VPN-Software includes very secure protocol ‘OpenVPN’ by default 

For ensuring utmost online encrypted privacy and security in any situation, AirVPN offers very reliable and secure protocol ‘OpenVPN‘ by default for its Windows, Mac and Android client.

OpenVPN™ is the best performing protocol with faster speeds, even on connection with high latency and across great distance, most reliable and stable protocol, even behind wireless routers, on non-reliable networks, or on wifi hotspots. It is the recommended protocol for desktops including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Highest performance – fast, secure and reliable. OpenVPN is considered to be one of the safest and reliable encryption protocols. OpenVPN lends itself if you want to use strong encryption, and possibly want to cascade multiple VPN servers, or want to direct your traffic through an additional proxy.

OpenVPN supports up to AES-256 encryption for Mac, Windows, iOS, Linux and Android. It has no known weaknesses. OpenVPN authenticates data on both ends through digital certificates, or through certificates with a username and password pair. It is proven to be reliable on all kinds of connections, such as WLAN, wired and mobile. It’s incredibly easy to set up, and is a good choice for desktop users. AirVPN uses the following data and control channel CIPHERs for encryption-

DATA CHANNEL CIPHERS

  • AES-256-GCM with 256 bit key for authentication
  • AES-256-CBC with HMAC-SHA1 for authentication

CONTROL CHANNEL CIPHERS

  • AES-256-GCM with HMAC-SHA384 for authentication
  • AES-256-CBC with HMAC-SHA1 for authentication
  • 4096 bit RSA keys size
  • 4096 bit Diffie-Hellman keys size
  • TLS Ciphers (IANA names): TLS-DHE-RSA-WITH-AES-256-CBC-SHA, TLS-DHE-RSA-WITH-AES-256-GCM-SHA384
  • TLS additional authorization layer key (tls-auth): 2048 bit
  • 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). [See: https://airvpn.org/specs/]

Network-Lock works as Killswitch and prevents all IP Leaks

Network lock is a feature that has been developed to prevent IPv4/IPv6/WebRTC IP leak under any circumstance when you are connected to AirVPN’s VPN tunnel and also when your Internet connection/VPN connection drops so that your virtual identities like your local IP and geo-information are not exposed to third parties. So, this ‘Network Lock’ is more than Killswitch. The Network Lock is based on strict firewalls rules. Thus, the protection against leaks remains  active even when the connection is detected as “on” (regardless it is really “on” or not). I have used this option and it really fascinate me a lot.

Capability to hide IP assigned to Local ISP

I have performed multiple tests at different IP tracker websites to see how much capable AirVPN is of hiding real IP assigned to local ISP. I am highly impressed that I found all of them supremely OK. I, for example, only show below here the image of the result got at renowned IP tracker website whats-my-ip-address.org and ipleak.net. The image shows that their AirVPN works perfectly in hiding my real IP address assigned to my local ISP, as my real IP is not visible. You only see a Spain IP Address 95.215.62.92 perfectly altered by AirVPN.

Capability to prevent DNS Leak 

You should know that your Internet Service Provider (ISP) is able to read and monitor what you do on the internet by storing file-logs and records in their servers about your whole internet activities. When connected to a VPN, a user automatically connects with VPN’s DNS server instead of ISP’s DNS. This way, the ISP doesn’t know which domain you are accessing or what website you are visiting. But, in rare cases it can happen that your system will revert back to your ISP’s DNS server, exposing your online activities to your ISP. So ‘DNS leak protection’ feature has been invented by VPN providers to mask your local ISP’s eye to let them not see and record your internet activity at all.  AirVPN has developed automatic ‘DNS Leak Protection‘ to prevent DNS leak. So you have to do nothing, you’ll be automatically protected from DNS leak.

To show you, I have performed multiple ‘DNS leak’ tests at different DNS leak tracker websites to know about how much capable AirVPN is of preventing DNS leak. And I am very delighted to say that DNS leak was never detected during my tests. I show below here, for example, 5 images from my test results got at ipleak.net , www.dnsleaktest.comdnsleak.com , www.perfect-privacy.com/dns-leaktest/hidester.com/webrtc-ip-leak-test//webrtc , You see the images show the common result of ‘No DNS Leak’, as you only see DNS information assigned to AirVPN; not the DNSs assigned to my local ISP.

Capability to prevent IPv6 Leak 

IPv6  stands for ‘Internet Protocol version 6’. It is also called IPng (Internet Protocol next generation). IPv6 is the most recent version of the IP (Internet Protocol). It is basically a communication protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the Internet. IPv6 was developed by the ‘Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)’ to deal with the long-anticipated problem of IPv4 address exhaustion. IPv6 is intended to replace the current version of IPv4 (Internet Protocol Version 4).

As IPv6 routes traffic across ISP (Internet Service Providers) and Websites, nowadays it may be possible that user’s traffic requests will be traced by third party or malicious attacker even when connected to an IPv4 VPN. This risk may take place stealthily while surfing any website by downloading any advertisement, image, or css file from an IPv6 URL, and it can even occur over Bittorrent also. In this way it would be possible to spy on the user’s website browsing history or online activity simply from leaked IPv6 requests. So, protecting IPv6 leakage is very important.

This is why AirVPN has added a feature ‘Network Lock‘ that specifically forces all IPv6 traffic to route through their VPN tunnel; thus blocking any potential IPv6 leak at the source. If you activate this option, it’ll prevent IPv6 leak.

Capability to prevent WebRTC IP Leak 

Reports from some users have brought to light a Internet security hole first in VPN industry that might reveal your local IP address to websites/web browsers through ‘WebRTC’. The ‘RTC’ in WebRTC stands for Real-Time-Communication, and the API directory is used for voice calls, video chats, and p2p file sharing.  This WebRTC was originally developed to aid certain types of connections between browsers without the need for an additional plugin. But today’s most remarkable worrying subject in VPN industry has been WebRTC that could be used to discover your local IP address assigned to your local ISP, even under the presence of a VPN connection. Considering the importance of ‘WebRTC Leak protection‘, AirVPN added ‘Network Lock Protection‘ feature to prevent this type of IP leak.

So, does AirVPN client software have the capability to protect your local IP address from being leaked through WebRTC?

To get the answer, I performed multiple tests on this issue also (without any browser extension) at renowned WebRTC-IP-Leak-Tracer websites ipleak.net , www.perfect-privacy.com/dns-leaktest/diafygi.github.io/webrtc-ips , check.ipredator.se/browserleaks.com/webrtc, I am very happy to state that AirVPN perfectly passed the test and No WebRTC IP leak were detected, at all, during those tests. I have shown below here 5 images from my test results. The results commonly show 10.4.33.90 as WebRTC Local (Private) IP addresses assigned to AirVPN; not assigned to my local ISP. So, my Local IP address is not leaked through WebRTC technology. See the images below-

Note: To increase ‘WebRTC Local IP address leak protection’ security, I recommend you to use updated Mozilla Firefox browser (and completely avoid Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, Comodo Dragon etc browsers), while being connected with VPN, for ensuring more privacy. If you add ‘Disable WebRTC’ extension to Mozilla Firefox Browser and perform the same test at the same WebRTC IP tracer websites mentioned above, you’ll get more perfect result and even your AirVPN’s local (Private) WebRTC IP address will be absolutely invisible. See the images below-

In case you use ‘Google Chrome‘, you are recommended to add ‘WebRTC Control‘ extension to an updated Google Chrome to prevent WebRTC IP Leak perfectly.

Capability to bypass DPI (Deep Packet Inspection)

Nowadays different websites, ISPs and Governments of different countries around the world are using DPI (Deep Packet Inspection) technology to spy on people’s online activities and control their access to the Internet. This DPI can only tell them that you are using encryption and that your packets are coming from a VPN server. And It is not a magic wand that breaks encryption. And so far, despite pretending to do exactly that, not even the NSA has ever broken a single packet with or without DPI.

I performed a test at www.doileak.com to know about how much capable AirVPN is of preventing its  VPN connection from being inspected and traced by any 3rd party. I am happy to say that No VPN connection was detected and traced by www.doileak.com . The result says- ‘We could not detect your connection type‘. See the image below-

If VPN connection was detected, then it would say – ‘You are connected via generic tunnel or VPN and have made …. hops. Your connection type (generic tunnel or VPN) is rather uncommon for the average internet surfer, and could suggest proxy/VPN use’.

Go to AirVPN.org


Logging Policy

AirVPN is seriously committed to client’s privacy. To ensure their users’ privacy they accept BitCoin besides many other cryto-currencies too from their users to pay for their services. You can pay anonymously using only your username, password and bitcoin.

AirVPN is also one of the best logless vpn service providers in industry; meaning they neither store user’s connection-logs (user’s local IP address, time-stamps during connecting or disconnecting attempt) nor activity-logs whatsoever. They neither can relate any internet activity to any specific user account nor can they match any specific user’s identity with any Internet activity. They stated-

“We keep no logs AND we do not use any data (in RAM or elsewhere) to disclose personal identity AND we do not send any data, not even during a connection, to any third party”. [https://airvpn.org/topic/15396-does-airvpn-log-its-users-ip-addresses/]


Refund Policy

AirVPN offers a 3 day money back guarantee. They also offer a 100% free trial with no feature limitation except bandwidth usage. So you can use this free trial first to test their VPN products and services before any final subscription of their premium plan. Yet if you purchase any of their premium plan and are not satisfied with them, they give you a right to claim a full refund if you can claim it within 3 days from your successful premium subscription and also have not exceeded more that 5GB bandwidth usage. They stated-

AirVPN strongly encourages to test the free Service before you pay any subscription to commercial plans. The free service differs from the commercial service only with respect to bandwidth limitations. In case you are not satisfied with the commercial Service, once you have subscribed you have the right to obtain a full reimbursement, given that your request is sent within 3 commercial days from the subscription payment. AirVPN accepts only written refund requests sent to the addresses given in the Privacy Notice. You have the right to request a reimbursement without giving explanations. The right to be refunded is invalid if You have violated the Terms of Service and/or if you send the request after having used the Service for more than 3 days and/or if you have used the Service for a global traffic volume exceeding 5 GigaBytes. Air warrants a reimbursement within 30 days from receipt of reimbursement request. [https://airvpn.org/tos/]


Customer Support

After sales, customer support service is one of the key implementers to hold your customers; particularly, when you work in a service industry. Be that as it may, with regards to a VPN, Customer benefit gets to be something more than simply fundamental. very one of these services increases the value of the administration acquired and likely enlarge maintenance.

AirVPN offers email support to contact and no live chat support. Their support team is available to help you 24x7x365. Contact them anytime, via Email, support team will come forward to solve your problems. Detailed setup guides for all devices and OS also help you out throughout the installation process and aid you with the VPN apps download. Apart from everything else, there is a FAQ section with enlightening details.

Remarkable Pros 

  • 216 Self Managed VPN Servers in 20 countries worldwide
  • Unlimited traffic, bandwidth and Server switching
  • Minimum 4 Mbit/s download + 4 Mbit/s upload; No Maximum
  • Signup anonymously with username, password and bitcoin
  • No connection logs, No activity logs stored in VPN servers
  • World class & very Powerful VPN Client software/apps
  • Network Lock to prevent IPv4/IPv6 or WebRTC IP Leak
  • Automatic DNS Leak Protection to prevent DNS leak
  • Network-Lock as Killswitch to block all traffic when connection drops
  • OpenVPN by default with AES-256Bit-CBC encryption
  • 4096 bit RSA keys size and HMAC SHA1 Control Channel
  • OpenVPN over SSL/SSH/Tor to bypass DPI and censorship 
  • P2P & Bittorrent allowed, some servers are P2P compliant
  • 12 Internal DNS Servers with double hops to avoid censorship
  • Port-Forwarding Secrecy through diffie-Hellman key exchange
  • Up to 3 devices connection at a time allowed
  • Compatible with Windows, Mac, iOS, Android and routers 
  • Multiple Payment Methods including Bitcoin
  • 3-day Money back policy adopted
  • 24/7 email/ticket Support
  • Paid/Free Trial facility

Remarkable Cons

  • No Live Chat support
  • Website content and VPN apps should have been more newbie-friendly

Our Take on AirVPN

In this AirVPN review, I am delighted to say that AirVPN is, according to me, one of the best Secure Anonymous VPN service providers in industry. Firstly, AirVPN perfectly ensures military grade encrypted privacy of user’s identity and other important information, while surfing online, by hiding local IP and geo-location from unauthorized inspection of any third party. Secondly, AirVPN is a true logless vpn service provider; meaning they neither store user’s identifying connection-logs nor activity-logs whatsoever. They neither can relate any internet activity to any specific user account nor can they match any specific user’s identity with any Internet activity. So, AirVPN may be a great choice in terms of users’ privacy especially for those (like truth seeker journalist, news reporter, blogger) who face a severe need of end-to-end online anonymity and privacy in upholding true information in the internet against powerful bad organizations ( like bad governments, bad law enforcement agencies, bad politicians etc.) with a view to protecting themselves from the probable harassment that might take place by those bad organizations, because if these organizations even illegally force AirVPN to handover all possible identifiable information of any specific user to them, they will not be able to officially match any specific user’s identity with any Internet activity. Thirdly, AirVPN is also recommended for those users also who want to bypass any country’s Internet Censorship &  Content Surveillance (like China, Iran etc), as well as to access any Geo-Blocked Website, or to view or download any legal file or video, in the form of P2P or torrenting, with profound privacy and good speed. In a word, AirVPN’s overall performance in securing your online privacy is brilliant  and world class.

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Michael

Michael Reddy is a tech enthusiast, entertainment buff, and avid traveler who loves exploring Linux and sharing unique insights with readers.