Originally Posted by
lsquare
Access blocked North American websites.
Anyways, I can't recommend Astrill VPN at all. I'm also experiencing connection problems where I lose internet access even though Astrill says I'm connected. I can disconnect and reconnect, but it's annoying having to do that every few hours. It happens to me no matter which protocol and server I use. ExpressVPN just work!
Thanks. The reason I ask is that most popular VPNs have that connectivity issue (as I said, TGFWC is not consistent but it eventually does cut the connection off). ExpressVPN is one of them. There is a list of VPNs floating around somwhere which are authorized by the CCP but how private they truly are is definitely in doubt.
One option that some people have successfully used is hosting their own VPNs (eg, using a cloud provider or through their own internet connection and a virtual machine... this is usually from their corporate office or data center).
Depending on your use case, another possibility is using something like teamviewer/anydesk/vnc (make sure you use MFA for security purposes) to an endpoint outside of China (I've done this).
There are a few other possibilities depending on how technical you are and how much effort. If ExpressVPN works for you, great, I just have seen them and others who aren't registered with the Chinese government being cut off randomly.