Originally Posted by
rts123
To clarify what I said earlier, the speed as measured by the speed test was a blazing fast 65MB down and 35MB up but the actual experience of accessing sites outside of China and using a VPN connection the US is frustratingly slow and full of lengthy delays & dropouts. It's like a really bad DSL connection a lot of the time and even a simple Google search (which goes is directed through their Hong Kong site) can take a minute or more and will sometimes time out partway through loading the search results.
You can configure Chrome to default to the true Google. It isn't any faster, but has more relevant search results for those of us who are not Chinese.