Best way & price to get unlimited data in China?
Jan 3, 2016, 4:40 am
#1
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Best way & price to get unlimited data in China?
I will be visiting China, and was wondering what's the best way to get internet on my phone & laptop?
Well, I guess I can get LTE/4G on my phone, then tether to my laptop but i guess the speed probably wouldnt be great...
I was reading some forums where some internet provider offer unmetered usage after 12am (midnight) - not sure if this is true.
I have never done this before so please advise. Thanks!
Well, I guess I can get LTE/4G on my phone, then tether to my laptop but i guess the speed probably wouldnt be great...
I was reading some forums where some internet provider offer unmetered usage after 12am (midnight) - not sure if this is true.
I have never done this before so please advise. Thanks!
Jan 3, 2016, 9:29 am
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Hi there, and welcome. If you don't want to use a cellular option, I'm not sure that there are other options really, aside from finding wifi hotspots.
Did you check out the Prepaid China SIM thread? An LTE connection (or even a good 3G one) will be plenty fast for most needs.
Did you check out the Prepaid China SIM thread? An LTE connection (or even a good 3G one) will be plenty fast for most needs.
Jan 7, 2016, 11:13 am
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...assuming your connection needs are in-country. Most of the cellular data I've used in Beijing and Shanghai are great connecting to internal resources but deathly slow if you have to connect to resources in the US. Hotels are hit or miss, some better than other. The Apple Stores in the big cities have the best connections I've used.
In China there are different "grades" of ISP service that a property can purchase, there is a "gold" service that comes at a definite premium but seems to have the lowest latency to the USA, maybe they are routed via a faster firewall when you are exisitng the country?
I've heard some bigger chain hotels have MPLS networks that have their traffic encapsulated and dropped off in Hong Kong or somewhere more friendly before it goes on the internet so you don't have any filtering at all and performance is great. I haven't seen this myself but some of my peers say they've seen it.
In China there are different "grades" of ISP service that a property can purchase, there is a "gold" service that comes at a definite premium but seems to have the lowest latency to the USA, maybe they are routed via a faster firewall when you are exisitng the country?
I've heard some bigger chain hotels have MPLS networks that have their traffic encapsulated and dropped off in Hong Kong or somewhere more friendly before it goes on the internet so you don't have any filtering at all and performance is great. I haven't seen this myself but some of my peers say they've seen it.
Jan 8, 2016, 5:35 am
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...assuming your connection needs are in-country. Most of the cellular data I've used in Beijing and Shanghai are great connecting to internal resources but deathly slow if you have to connect to resources in the US. Hotels are hit or miss, some better than other. The Apple Stores in the big cities have the best connections I've used.
In China there are different "grades" of ISP service that a property can purchase, there is a "gold" service that comes at a definite premium but seems to have the lowest latency to the USA, maybe they are routed via a faster firewall when you are exisitng the country?
I've heard some bigger chain hotels have MPLS networks that have their traffic encapsulated and dropped off in Hong Kong or somewhere more friendly before it goes on the internet so you don't have any filtering at all and performance is great. I haven't seen this myself but some of my peers say they've seen it.
In China there are different "grades" of ISP service that a property can purchase, there is a "gold" service that comes at a definite premium but seems to have the lowest latency to the USA, maybe they are routed via a faster firewall when you are exisitng the country?
I've heard some bigger chain hotels have MPLS networks that have their traffic encapsulated and dropped off in Hong Kong or somewhere more friendly before it goes on the internet so you don't have any filtering at all and performance is great. I haven't seen this myself but some of my peers say they've seen it.
Last edited by moondog; Jan 8, 2016 at 5:42 am
