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2/ Paypal payments are no longer accepted for new customers. Existing customers can still pay with Paypal.

3/ We accept AlertPay payments. AlertPay is very similar to Paypal, but based in Canada instead of USA, and without country restrictions.

4/ We have made some progress on the "download box" project. A first beta is available, only for MegaUpload links :

Final URL: https://ddl.dlbox.s6n.net/

This beta will only work until the end of this month (yes only 3 days), to see if megaupload bans our account or not. If it is successfull, we'll setup this service on a fast server and start working on torrent links.
Please test and tell us if it works for you. You don't have to use the VPN to use this service.

2/ This server also offers IPv6 connectivity if your OpenVPN version and your OS have IPv6 support. Currently no stable OpenVPN version has IPv6 support. Don't expect IPv6 to work correctly at this time.

Warning: IPv6 support in OpenVPN is still experimental and require beta software that can destroy your computer or burn your house. Don't use beta versions unless you know what you're doing.

Don't write to the support about IPv6 related issues, use this topic only.

If you really want to try IPv6 on Windows, use our OpenVPN version with IPv6 support.

Known bugs:
- Some Windows beta versions require that the name of your TAP-win32 interface contains no space or accent.
- Some Windows beta versions add permanent IPv6 routes. The first connection will work, then you won't be able to connect again until you manually remove the routes using netsh.exe.
- Some Windows beta versions will prefer IPv4 connections over IPv6 connections. This might actually be a good thing for now.
- Some Linux beta versions don't add the allocated IPv6 address to the tun interface.

2/ We are in the process of upgrading some servers, for better speed. You can follow the upgrades in "Tasks and status" on this forum.
For those who have speed problems with the US server, please do a speed test with this file and tell us the results:
http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/do … est100.zip

3/ We are ready to enable IPv6 on the OpenVPN servers, but this can cause some problems on the client side, so we need to do more tests.

4/ For people who don't like having to switch servers to download a file (or don't even want to have all their traffic go through the VPN), we have an idea: a "download box".
You upload your .torrent/.nzb files, paste your megaupload/... links, and our servers download the files for you. When the download is complete, you receive an email with a https: direct download link.
What do you think ? Would it be useful ?

The counterpart is that only web surfing is allowed on the free server. Everything else is blocked.
The main objective of this server is to act as a secure proxy, without the drawbacks and security flaws of classical proxies.

See here for instructions:
http://bb.s6n.org/viewtopic.php?id=81

Users connected to the old free server will be transparently switched to the new server in a few days.

The "p2p" server will always point to the safest servers for P2P activity. All P2P activities are allowed on the "p2p" server. This will allow us to optimize bandwidth allocation and legal protection. Of course the "p2p" server is not limited to P2P activity, you can also use it for web surfing.
As a consequence, P2P is not allowed anymore on all the other servers. If you are using the VPN for P2P, you must switch to the "p2p" server, even if you were on a spanish server. Premium v1 users must also switch to v2 if they want to continue using P2P.
If your P2P activity is only on private bittorrent trackers, you can't be detected and thus you can use any server you like.

The "fr" server is for people who need to access web sites that require a French IP address.

There is nothing new there, and it is more misconfiguration than security flaw.

PPTP is an obsolete protocol with weak encryption, which is why we have always recommended to use OpenVPN. PPTP is provided only for compatibility purpose.

We already block LAN browsing and have designed our VPN so that it is safe to use even if you have absolutely no firewall on your computer.

The only real problem is that VPNs only hide your IPv4 address, not your IPv6 address if you have one.
Almost nobody has an IPv6 connection, so it shouldn't be a problem... unless you are using Windows Vista or 7 with an IPv6-aware bittorrent application.
Windows Vista and 7 offer you an IPv6 address through an automatic tunnel. It is very easy to learn your public IPv4 address from this automatic IPv6 address. According to the conference video linked in the article, Windows uses your real IPv4 address to build the IPv6 tunnel, and bittorrent applications will publish the IPv6 address in the DHT.
Our Windows 7 test box commited suicide a few months ago, so we can't test right now.
However we were able to confirm that if you have a native IPv6 connection, your IPv6 is still visible with the VPN on. Even if your OS is not Windows. Even if you are using OpenVPN. But in that case the IPv4 address cannot be learned from the IPv6 address.

So, what to do ?

As a temporary fix:
Disable automatic IPv6 tunneling, or disable IPv6 support in your bittorrent application, or disable IPv6 in the OS.

As a permanent solution:
We will soon provide IPv6 access in the VPN tunnels (it was already planned anyway), so it will also hide your IPv6 address. But we must wait for the first beta versions of OpenVPN 2.2 (in July or August). Current OpenVPN versions don't have the required features to fully support IPv6.

In all cases, you should disable automatic IPv6 tunneling, as well as any IPv6 public address you don't want to use on the Internet.
Because it is possible to find your others public IPv6 addresses, even with an IPv6 compatible VPN.

It seems that anti-p2p organizations are increasing their pressure in Europe, including our spanish IP addresses. We will soon add servers in more tolerant countries to solve this problem.

Please note that we are in the process of upgrading the Netherlands servers, and that will change their IP addresses. To avoid any service disruption, make sure that you are connecting to these servers by hostname and not by IP address.

The main objective of the free server is to help people living in countries where Internet is censored and/or heavily monitored, not to help spammers and P2P users.

In consequence, we have decided to allow access to the free server only from specific countries (like China, Iran...).
In the same time, we will devote more resources to the Tor project.