Originally Posted by tailorgiven

Yeah … with all due respect, I’d say it’s a laughable suggestion for OP as a short-term tourist, not to mention the “more reliable” part.

Without getting to the nitty-gritty, they’ve really enhanced the Great Firewall probably since your last visit. It’s a joke these days to just install V2Ray or Shadowsocks, or any other traditional VPN protocol that GFW bans within ten seconds on a server you see fit (for which its IP is probably banned already by the GFW if you’re on a major IDC) and call it a day.

If you’ve currently got a VPN server on a legacy protocol, great. But I’m pretty sure it’s unusable in CN without some heavy modifications that involve purchasing domain names, building web servers, and setting up an unfamiliar protocol for non-Chinese users.