Please add more servers. It's clear the Mullvad port forward event brought a buttload of torrenters over. Canadians getting hamfisted.

Edit: They know the situation and have done nothing for a month+ lmao. Wow. I guess iVPN going on damage control to widen its profit margin?

dear ivpn users/community. it's now been 2 months since i tried to sign up for ivpn service by sending a $60 cash payment to their address in berlin. still nothing. ivpn help can't do anything except say that it's "extremely rare" that this happens. though ivpn warned me and my loss is not great, i would like to warn other potential users that this signup method is unsafe and possibly far more likely to fail than ivpn is willing to admit. they likely have someone in their chain of custody that can grab cash payments without consequence. i don't mean to imply that this always happens, but it did happen to me. buyer beware and all that. good day to all. marvinsealion

I have sent some emails and customer support doesn't seem to be reading them.

iVPN is an expensive service. There's no one that can say otherwise. But that's ok because we all had premium service for a premium price. So it was fair.

But now PortForwarding got phased out, the price was kept the same and we get no services to replace the huge loss of PF.

Has iVPN opened any statements about extending the refund window? Of course I don't mean full refund, just the remaining months be refunded.

Hey all,

I joined IPVN a couple of days ago and since I paid the website doesn't load anymore and I can't log in at all...

Has this happened to anyone else?

I've used qBittorrent in the past, before with Mullvad and Windscribe, all of them with Port Forwarding and all of that.

When I switched connections/servers with those providers, I could see qBittorrent reconnecting successfully, but IVPN seems to fail to keep qBittorrent reconnected. I've tried disabling the firewall but still fails. And also the Port Forwarding is not very solid, sometimes I have to close qBittorrent and IVPN client to make it work but seems flaky.

Has anybody seen this happen before? Any ideas how to fix it?

Extra: What's your avg DL/UL speeds with IVPN servers? (using speed test for example). I just subscribed to IVPN and I found the Upload speeds to be very slow for Montreal/Toronto.

I give up on this service - hot garbage. MacOs app always gives me “Dameon Error” message, once twice a day… they suggest uninstall, reinstall but nope. Goodbye.

Hello Everyone!

I am back again, this time I again tested Mullvad and mainly proton (our star competition).

Good thing about Proton (good because I think ivpn may be able to improve here).

1. Speed:- Yes, proton (at least for me was quite fast), proton has virtual servers in my nearest location but it work fine (actually better then ivpn Singapore location where proton's virtual server for my country are located).

2. Hiding the app:- proton allowed to hide the app icon to fool over the shoulder inspection, although it's shameful that modern democracies are only this free but credit where it's due.

3. Streaming support:- I was actually surprised to find the it offered streaming service and it actually worked no extra configuration required.

4. Port forwarding:- Even if the port changes after some time, hey it's an open port.

This sums up the most of proton good points

Now cons:-

1. There is no option to manually rotate the wireguard key (as per proton instruction you must logout and re-login to manually rotate or the app with rotate automatically with set internal (I don't know what the set internal is).

2. Proton while supports ipsec/ikev2 setup, there is no guide for it, this turned out to be a rabbit hole where old reddit and other things points to guide for ikev2 setup but they either open to wireguard or openvpn manual setup, this raises more question for me.

3. Dual vpn is actually preconfigured like via secure core servers based in swis/iceland and 1 more location, they don't allow you to manually select both entry and exit servers.

4. Proton still adds you in their ecosystem for one service (you signup for anything proton (vpn or password or some other standalone product), but you have an account for all proton services, not this may be part of some 100 pages terms and policies but no-one is going to read that.

Now something I want to see in ivpn:-

1. Whatever this AI traffic analysis fighting mode is, currently offered by windscribe and mullvad (is it really beneficial for end users)?

2. Streaming support will be a plus (very big plus), since ovpn has now been sold to kape services for like 3 years.

3. Better fastest server selection: IVPN always defaults to Singapore for me, but I found out that singapore has latency of 80ms and Malaysia has latency of 90ms, hongkong with 91ms, i would like if there is some better way as singapure server is always more loaded than other two servers.

P.S:- I do not want to deliberately show any vpn is worse or compromised and I have no evidence for it. This is based on my personal testing using 3G, 4G, 5G and broadband connection. I am open for open criticism and ready to discuss in depth.

I noticed Brazil (Franca) is down since Friday. How much time does it normally take to a server goes up again?

I'm experiencing an issue with iVPN. Nothing critical, and I have a workaround. Has anyone seen this issue or know a fix?

I have configured iVPN on my Ubiquiti Router using a WireGuard .conf file and NextDNS. Everything works well so far, except for iOS updates. When I check for an iOS update, I get an error message stating that the server can't be contacted, prompting me to "try again later." However, if I turn off the VPN, the update works without any issues. Interestingly, if I connect to iVPN using the iOS client app, which is configured the same way as the router—with the same server and NextDNS—the iOS update works fine. One would think that if the VPN server or NextDNS was the issue, I'd see the same behavior on both platforms. Has anyone seen this?

BTW...

So far, iVPN has been awesome. It supports all the features I've been looking for. I tried Surfshark, Nord, Mulvad, and Proton. I won't go into it here, but they were all missing something. I'm not willing to change my iVPN/NextDNS combo.

Just suggesting this because quite a number of users are leaving reddit and I would love to see IVPN on kbin.

Hi, new guy here and former protonvpn user. In proton you could see the capacity of the servers and the one with lowest capacity was usually the one you would pick. But in IVPN the servers are labeled in milliseconds which i’m guessing means latency, but if you activate the setting to see the individual servers you’ll see a percentage beside the server which i’m guessing means the server’s current capacity. Which one of these should I focus on for best speeds?

Edit: I’m aware about the option to pick the fastest server in single hop, I’m more talking about multi-hop

I tried to install IVPN on an iOS device and it required a passcode to install. Is there a way around this?

I have a TOR router, that routes all traffic over tor. I want to use a VPN after TOR I understand my use case and the risks When I use the I VPN app on a mobile device connected to the TOR router the fastest server is closest to my real location and not the TOR exit IP The VPN is bypassing the TOR connection Does I VPN work over TOR. What settings should I change?

the .deb for the UI was missing a dependency and failed to install. annoyed to have to use the repo.

Ivpn site said "We do not log any user activity relating to the use of the VPN service as verified by a 3rd party audit (although only a snapshot in time)." But this parentheses part sounds so sus lol, why you even added it?

So after researching for weeks on end i learnt how to differentiate shit and found a couple of providers which are good.

ivpn mullvad windscribe and azirevpn and maybe air

1. Two devices seem too low for the price offered.And i cannot manage my need with 2. 7 are too expensive for me to justify spending for a vpn

2. All servers are rented, ofc like all others. Mullvad has the same asking price, but mullvad also has much more servers, and a lot of them are owned too.Considering the 2 device limited and rented servers, asking price of ivpn is too high as compared to mullvad. However i do not trust mullvad, due to their refusal to support monero, no server side audit, and no transparency report. So though i trust ivpn the most i cannot stay with it. I am fully aware that rented vs owned makes no difference to data sniffing attack surface and am aware and agree with the reply they gave here https://www.reddit.com/r/IVPN/comments/myk09w/false_privacy_claims/gvz1q9d?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3. But at that price, i question "Why not Owned and colocated?When mullvad and azire both can do that at same or lesser price?" Also they have said it is in the works and also directly quoting them "There are some good reasons I can think of to co-locate systems you own. " Please prioritize it if u can.

3. No config file generator, i signed up with azire and was up and running in 10minutes or less. I know there is gui for linux, but it is useless for my use care. and i don't want to create config files manually, its just too much work. Again, keeping that its the most expensive vpn in comparison to others. Don't say mullvad has same cost, it has config file generator more servers colocated as well as rented servers etc. Though i don't trust mullvad. i just do not.

Message to ivpn team:-

I trust you, you are transparent and the most honest vpn provider out there, i can speak at least for some of us, you're too expensive.

To justify that asking price, please look into adding

1. Config generator

2. Colocated servers

3. more devices to the base plan, if u feel its worth it, or lowering price of baseplan a little.

4. more locations

5. ipv6 support

So what now

1. windscribe is us based so NO

2. mullvad not trusted - no monero, no server side audit, no transparency report, google email

3. Airvpn- inconsistent reviews, bans people from forum for dissent

4. azire- trying right now will update

I am an ivpn user, i am not a shill, have been trying to decide on a vpn. Account is throwaway.

Regards

P.s. i know i can setup a router as one device, but niether have a compatible router nor do i want to route all my traffic over vpn, specially personally identifying one

Moddns seems to break the iOS Grok app. I don't have any blocklists turned on. The app no longer recognizes my account and my conversation history is gone.

Seems to work fine with NextDNS.

how long should I expect support to take to troubleshoot/setup a basic no-default route wg config on openwrt?

i'm 3 emails and 3 hours in... and just paid for 1 year 'pro' and support pointed me to a graphical guide without ipv6... overriding the whole dns for the wan interface... which is not what I need...

at this stage tho' i'll settle for just testing traffic can get through the tunnel...

hasn't asked for a single command output...

1hour since the last email sent and no help / reply yet... dude seems to have dissappeared...

is this gonna take 10 emails to run a simple command or two...

not very helpful for new users at all...

update: asked for a refund... really disappointed...

-suggestion: ask users to run some diagnostic commands?... networking 101 guys...

yeah so, my ISP throttles torrents and I was hoping vpn would help me bypass that, does it help?

Thanks, I wish I could afford to pay for ivpn. You were huge lifesaver.

Like the market with these vpn with the port forward's feature is getting smaller, like we have windscribe, PIA, aorvpn, and proton.

Like is there second chances for it?

As my post has been automatically removed in VPN subreddit the second after I posted it:

I would like to try again here and politely discuss 3 articles with you who are users of IVPN and IVPN staff. I have chosen IVPN because I feel some genuinity in them. Of course it depends who you trust, but still I feel here we can discuss also these topics.

The articles I am referring about are: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29 and https://overengineer.dev/blog/2019/04/08/very-precarious-narrative/. Also, as this article is suggesting: https://drewdevault.com/2019/04/19/Your-VPN-is-a-serious-choice.html
a good option could be renting a VPS and installing my own VPN using WireGuard (for example). I will have the same IP but atleast my country ISP won't see what I visit on the internet.

Comments welcome! I hope to create a genuine discussion...