Originally Posted by
PTravel
I don't use a VPN service. Instead, my router is configured to support VPN and I connect directly (I've never been comfortable with 3rd party services). Will I have problems connecting to my home system? This can be problematic, because I routinely use my VPN to access my files remotely.
I have a friend that does the same thing, connecting to his home system using a personal VPN without problems.
If you can do this also it might be better than a 3rd party service because 1) it's free and 2) I suppose it's more likely to be under the radar of the GFW since it's not public.
However the news article posted by the OP seems to say that the GFW has learned to detect VPN connections (versus I suppose censors manually blocking the IP of the access points), so I can't say how well this will work in the future.
Also if your home VPN system goes down you'll need someone back there to restart it.