Originally Posted by
STS-134
Well, the difference is that your computer doesn't run on battery power, and generally doesn't receive push messages that have to come in over the VPN. I noticed that when my phone hops from network to network in China, sometimes Exp fails to reconnect. Really strange because I hop between WLAN and LTE in the US all the time and I have never had Exp fail to reconnect before. Having a SIM card that doesn't require a VPN solves that problem entirely.
The recent Exp problems (which, have been resolved) taught me that it's possible to live here without a V. Of course, I still use it, but Baidu search isn't much worse than Google, and its maps are far better. As I mentioned in previous threads, my main problem is that my company uses Google Mail. However, I find that we use Wechat a lot more than email for both internal and external communication, and I can always go an hour or two without email.