VPNs in China
Oct 10, 2017, 12:42 pm
#17
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: China
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Oct 10, 2017, 2:03 pm
#18
Join Date: Dec 2009
Posts: 306
If you're not travelling to China for business purposes, I would check with your IT department to see if they even allow that. I worked for a major US company and we had a list of countries where we were not allowed to use company devices due to fears of government surveillance and China was on that list.
Oct 11, 2017, 1:53 am
#19
Join Date: Jun 2009
Posts: 2,135
do you set openvpn to port 443 or a higher number
Unless your company has set up some kind of special obfuscation to hide the connection from the GFW, then it will most likely not work. If it doesn't, there are other solutions you can use if you must connect to it. Such as tunneling openvpn over shadowsocks or tunelling it though another vpn on a router. Contact me through the Tips for China website if you need further info.
Oct 11, 2017, 2:21 am
#20
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: China
Programs: OZ*G, Nexus, APEC
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Oct 11, 2017, 12:11 pm
#21
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: SIN / SFO
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Enterprise-style VPNs (like Cisco AnyConnect) have, IME, been exempt from GFW tampering. If your company uses an open source VPN or standard protocol like OpenVPN or straight IPsec, it's unlikely to work.
Nov 6, 2017, 12:15 am
#23
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: China
Programs: OZ*G, Nexus, APEC
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All of these ones are still working well for me.
Nov 6, 2017, 3:05 am
#24
Join Date: Jun 2016
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If you want reliability and without much drama and hassle, go with Express VPN. I've been using them for years and never a problem. My friends that has all kinds of VPNs, have all been disconnected (some of them restored) from time to time. Never for Express VPN.
Nov 8, 2017, 8:16 pm
#26
Join Date: Nov 2017
Posts: 15
The VPN situation in China is constantly changing due to regulations and crackdowns. What that means is that most VPNs will not work properly if they do not put resources into overcoming those difficulties.
As I know, only a handful of VPN providers are dedicated to serving the China market and those are the VPNs you should use.
You can find reviews and speed tests of those VPNs here: Jump the Great Firewall
As I know, only a handful of VPN providers are dedicated to serving the China market and those are the VPNs you should use.
You can find reviews and speed tests of those VPNs here: Jump the Great Firewall
Nov 9, 2017, 7:04 pm
#27
Join Date: Dec 2009
Posts: 306
Not necessarily VPN related, but a friend just returned from China and was roaming with his Canadian cell phone with Canadian SIM and everything was still blocked. In the past, most people reported being able to bypass the Great Firewall when roaming, because traffic is routed back to your home country first.
I believe there was another recent post on FT where another FTer reported not being able to bypass the firewall when roaming with a Japanese SIM. Does anyone else have any recent experience?
I believe there was another recent post on FT where another FTer reported not being able to bypass the firewall when roaming with a Japanese SIM. Does anyone else have any recent experience?
Nov 11, 2017, 11:43 pm
#28
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: SFO
Programs: Marriott Ti/LTP
Posts: 1,329
Not necessarily VPN related, but a friend just returned from China and was roaming with his Canadian cell phone with Canadian SIM and everything was still blocked. In the past, most people reported being able to bypass the Great Firewall when roaming, because traffic is routed back to your home country first.
I believe there was another recent post on FT where another FTer reported not being able to bypass the firewall when roaming with a Japanese SIM. Does anyone else have any recent experience?
I believe there was another recent post on FT where another FTer reported not being able to bypass the firewall when roaming with a Japanese SIM. Does anyone else have any recent experience?
Nov 14, 2017, 6:39 am
#29
Join Date: Aug 2008
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Not necessarily VPN related, but a friend just returned from China and was roaming with his Canadian cell phone with Canadian SIM and everything was still blocked. In the past, most people reported being able to bypass the Great Firewall when roaming, because traffic is routed back to your home country first.
I believe there was another recent post on FT where another FTer reported not being able to bypass the firewall when roaming with a Japanese SIM. Does anyone else have any recent experience?
I believe there was another recent post on FT where another FTer reported not being able to bypass the firewall when roaming with a Japanese SIM. Does anyone else have any recent experience?
Nov 21, 2017, 9:08 am
#30
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Washington D.C. via Sao Paulo via Houston via Washington D.C. via Boston via New York
Posts: 1,172
I know people don't want to discuss publicly sometimes, but I use PIA which I know does not work currently, I'll be PVG for a few days and am looking to use a VPN. FWIW I am using project fi so I assume that will connect to a local telecom while I'm there.