The vast majority of vpn servers are in the northern hemisphere, a very, very long way away from Australia
Servers in Australia only make a certain amount of sense due to our fascist governments internet restrictions ie: connecting to an Australian server and using social media = having to supply ID to that social media platform. While this does not apply to all social media platforms, it is expected to in time. (the restrictions only came in last year).
I’m expecting them to try to ban vpns in future as well, but thankfully they are morons.
airvpn is possibly feasible via their cli suite, but their gui that looks like it comes from 1997 and lacks split tunnelling, its also AUR, not official repos.
I would definitely prefer gui, and not having to f around with a manual install etc. Been there, done that in the past.
ivpn currently failing to install on my system (not something that has occurred previously), and they do have a lack of servers. They have 1 server listed in Malaysia, and 1 in South Africa. 99% of their servers are in the northern hemisphere.
Given a base speed of approx 100Mbps here, it doesn’t take much of a drop these days to be noticeable.
Previous connections via proton, and then via mullvad showed northern hemisphere servers, and even some southern hemisphere servers to be a bad idea.
New Zealand is the sweet spot, for now.
I have spent the day looking into alternate vpns again, and airvpn and ivpn are the only 2 that even come to close to ticking the boxes, just as they did when I was looking last year.
Mullvad was the only one that ticked all of the boxes
Decent amount of servers, and locations.
Good linux gui (now on official repos)
Good android gui (f-droid)
Split tunnelling on linux and android
Browser extensions (speed hit, but really handy)
No logs
The vast majority of vpn servers are in the northern hemisphere, a very, very long way away from Australia
Servers in Australia only make a certain amount of sense due to our fascist governments internet restrictions ie: connecting to an Australian server and using social media = having to supply ID to that social media platform. While this does not apply to all social media platforms, it is expected to in time. (the restrictions only came in last year). I’m expecting them to try to ban vpns in future as well, but thankfully they are morons.
airvpn is possibly feasible via their cli suite, but their gui that looks like it comes from 1997 and lacks split tunnelling, its also AUR, not official repos. I would definitely prefer gui, and not having to f around with a manual install etc. Been there, done that in the past.
ivpn currently failing to install on my system (not something that has occurred previously), and they do have a lack of servers. They have 1 server listed in Malaysia, and 1 in South Africa. 99% of their servers are in the northern hemisphere.
Given a base speed of approx 100Mbps here, it doesn’t take much of a drop these days to be noticeable. Previous connections via proton, and then via mullvad showed northern hemisphere servers, and even some southern hemisphere servers to be a bad idea.
New Zealand is the sweet spot, for now.
I have spent the day looking into alternate vpns again, and airvpn and ivpn are the only 2 that even come to close to ticking the boxes, just as they did when I was looking last year.
Mullvad was the only one that ticked all of the boxes Decent amount of servers, and locations. Good linux gui (now on official repos) Good android gui (f-droid) Split tunnelling on linux and android Browser extensions (speed hit, but really handy) No logs