Hi all,

Moving away from USA solutions I also want a good European vpn. I contracted GOOSE because it’s from my country, but their servers are spotty on mobile and I regularly have connection issues on my Linux.

I want a stable VPN, streaming and P2P enabled, from a European provider. Who has good options? Must be Linux compatible either through an app or OpenVPN/WireGuard.

Is proton a good option?

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I only have experience with surfshark and nordvpn Surfshark: its fine? NordVPN: its not great, but very cheap with woolsocks’s cashback

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Mullvad

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Unfortunately they don’t support port forwarding

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AirVPN. Only trustworthy VPN left that doesn’t discriminate traffic and allows port forwarding. You know they’re good cause they barely advertise at all.

I don’t use Eddie, their client, but just import my config into network-manager on linux. Works with openvpn and wireguard (wg-tools installed on fedora).

I use WG Tunnel app from fdroid on android.

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Thanks for the detailed description! Their speeds are good?

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Yes its pretty fast in my experience. When I had a 1Gbps fibre connection I regularly saw speeds of 28MBps (MB not Mb, so like over 200Mbps) downloads on steam (so from a single source), I don’t recall what my max was when torrenting multiple large files consecutively, but for example a 1080p movie took like 45 seconds. Their compatibility with my docker setup on my server was pleasantly good after many failed attempts with other VPNs.

Mullvad sounded like a good option to me, both pricewise and privacywise, but was a non-starter due to them folding to Hollywoods pressure and disallowing port forwarding. Anyone who torrents without port forwarding and sharing back what they get at least 1:1 is a scab IMO.

Unfortunately I only have a (somewhat tenuous) mobile 5G data connection these days, but here is a fresh speed test result showing about 60 Mbps (Mb this time, not MB) while connected to AirVPN. I ran a few and they averaged 30-60Mbps. Exact same speeds without it on, but with slightly lower ping, about 85-90 ping, but surprisngly higher jitter around the 85-90 too when not connected 🤷‍♂️. You’ll have to take my word for it that its similar speed without it connected since I don’t want to share my actual IP results.

I believe speeds depend on which server you connect to, but they don’t implement any throttling on their end, exept an even reduction in allocated speed if a single server’s connection becomes saturated. For example if everyone in one region decided to connect to one specific server, it may saturate its network connection and everyone’s share of the total bandwidth would reduce. (I personally have not seen this happen, or anywhere near it on any of the servers I regularly connect to). I believe normies that use their default app (Eddie) have access to better features like automatic server switching so I imagine they prevent this from happening with some sort of load balancing.

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Mullvad or Proton. I use Mullvad and am happy with it.

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I tried both on Linux (for extended period of time) and both are a good choice.

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Thank you so much for sharing this link! I’ve clicked on other pages in the footer to find alternatives for other apps and I’m impressed with what I see.

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Thanks. I have been working on it for a while. Always good to hear that it’s useful.

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