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Jun 2, 2014, 6:17 am

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Google has been blocked now for 4 days, & will probably be blocked for another few days.

Express has worked extremely well for me recently. I can't imagine not having a vpn any more.

Jun 4, 2014, 2:55 am

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Today (June 4) the censors have demonstrated that they can always defeat vpns when they care to crank things up.

Jun 4, 2014, 6:25 am

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Today (June 4) the censors have demonstrated that they can always defeat vpns when they care to crank things up.

Agree, when you see all the recent postings on the internet that is not suitable for people in PRC.

Jun 4, 2014, 12:34 pm

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Agree, when you see all the recent postings on the internet that is not suitable for people in PRC .

Not just internet, CNN-HK was blocked about 20 %, as of coverage of T sq.

and many 'brave' we-chat postings sensored. A cute math one, 6 4 + 25=89.
( the date + anv. years= year of event )

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Jun 4, 2014, 1:14 pm

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Not just internet, CNN-HK was blocked about 20 %, as of coverage of T sq.

and many 'brave' we-chat postings sensored. A cute math one, 6 4 + 25=89.
( the date + anv. years= year of event )

How about this one: 2 to the power of 6 !
The usual math symbol got translated to thumbs up which is not the meaning.

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Nov 15, 2014, 11:07 am

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I have a small office with a server, firewall, etc. this has a PPTP vpn set up on it, and all traffic is tunneled through it. Any reason this would NOT work in Beijing and Shanghai?

Nov 15, 2014, 11:47 am

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I have a small office with a server, firewall, etc. this has a PPTP vpn set up on it, and all traffic is tunneled through it. Any reason this would NOT work in Beijing and Shanghai?

Yes. If the censors decide to mess with pptp (seems to happen 2 or 3 times per year), you'll probably have problems.

Dec 4, 2014, 4:50 am

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China is always block VPN especially free VPN service, more and more paid VPN is blocked recently. you should buy multiple VPN accounts from several vendors so GFW can't block them all.

Dec 4, 2014, 10:54 pm

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I was able to connect back to my office fine. Worked a treat. Your mileage may vary.

Dec 5, 2014, 2:16 am

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OK I'm here now and SSH tunnel works, at least on port 443 & port 53 (yes I'm pretty naughty). Haven't tried other ports yet.

During my last trip earlier 2013 my commercial VPN sucked big time. So far this trip my SSH tunnel to my own squid proxy running on Amazon EC2 works like a charm - it's even cheaper.

Could you post a how-to for this process for Android and Mac? I have an Amazon account, but I have no idea how to set this up.

Feb 9, 2015, 11:52 am

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(not in China at the moment) Has the blocking really gone worse last few weeks? And are many VPN providers not working any more?

Feb 18, 2015, 2:44 am

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I have my own server in france. What would be the best way to tunnel traffic there? I already setup a OpenVPN connection, but as far is I know GF will block this traffic. Should I tunnel the connection through SSH or SSL?

May 3, 2016, 5:25 pm

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I was a little surprised not to see more current info. (The VPN section in the top-level China FAQ leads to a thread that apparently no longer exists.) According to some other travel forums, various VPNs seem to work sporadically and get blocked and unblocked, so up-to-date information would be very helpful.

So, what do people currently recommend as the best VPN for China? This will mostly be for hotel wi-fi, but also for my new GlocalMe G2 4G mobile hotspot which I hope to use with my iPhone when out and about.