AirVPN Review (2024)

Features

AirVPN is an Italy-based company that’s earned quite a reputation in the VPN industry. With 138 servers across 16 countries.

AirVPN’s website is well organized and easy to navigate. Unlike some VPNs, I didn’t have to dig through page after page to find the download link, which was a refreshing surprise. The download and installation process was also quite intuitive and took only a few minutes.

Configuring the software was even easier. The user interface is rather simplistic, with sections for monitoring the statistics of servers across different countries, as well as the speed of your network. Other noteworthy features include dynamic server selection, built-in DNS protection, and several other statistics to help you determine the best servers to connect.

At the top right corner of the AirVPN user interface is a lock icon. When turned on, it indicates that a firewall is enabled, which will prevent any traffic from entering or exiting a computer outside of the VPN tunnel.​

The logs section is updated in real-time, so you can monitor all the activities behind the scenes. These logs are never actually stored, however, just in case you want to monitor activities on your connection.

The feature that I found most desirable was the transparency of AirVPN when it comes to choosing a server. Using the client software, you can access detailed information about any server, including server load, connected users, and pings. This comes in handy for performance junkies like me.

Pricing

AirVPN is pretty competitive when it comes to pricing. Subscriptions are available for as short as 3 days and as long as a year. A free 3-day trial is supposedly available if you send their support desk a request, but I waited for 24 hours and never received my voucher.

• The three-day plan costs $2.22, which is great because if you’re like a lot of people, you prefer subscribing to a short-term plan, and on an as-needed basis.
• A 1-month subscription comes in at $7.76, which is pricey in comparison to other VPNs, but it drops down to $5.54 per month if you commit to a 3-month plan.
• The 12-month subscription is only $4.52 per month, prepaid at $54.33.

All plans come with the same feature set, so there’s no need to buy a premium, long-term subscription in order to access things like OpenVPN and p2p.

Tests

To gauge the overall performance of AirVPN, I ran a speed test on www.speedtest.net. Here’s the speed of my connection before connecting to AirVPN.

And here’s my speed after connecting to AirVPN. The ping soared after connecting to the VPN, most likely because of my distance from the server. There wasn’t a major decline in speed, however.

I also checked the security of AirVPN to make sure that a proper, secure connection was established through their IP. The results were positive.

Unfortunately, AirVPN doesn’t handle ipv6 requests well, so it simply disables them to prevent DNS leaks. It’s hard to complain about this, though, since many providers cannot properly handle DNS requests.

Privacy

AirVPN doesn’t maintain any logs, and since the company’s headquarters are based in Italy, it’s a pretty privacy-friendly VPN. They do strictly abide by EU data privacy laws, however. While Italy is a willing partner for NSA spying, AirVPN bypasses this by not having any servers located in the country itself.

Security

They definitely don’t disappoint on the security front. It’s based on OpenVPN protocol, which is the only protocol supported. This doesn’t present too much of a problem, though, since OpenVPN is now available on all major platforms – except Windows Mobile and BlackBerry.

Air VPN uses an advanced DNS routing system, which helps to bypass geographic-based restrictions by “double-hopping” your connection through their servers. This means you can access any streaming service that imposes geo-restrictions simply by switching to a server based in the same country as wherever the service is located.

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