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I guess if you are working professionally in the tech space, you'd just spring for the 5-15 bucks a month to have a vpn.
by raihansaputra 10y ago
I guess if you are working professionally in the tech space, you'd just spring for the 5-15 bucks a month to have a vpn.
- johansch 10y agoThere was some noise about the GFW doing clever stuff(tm) to identify VPN traffic and punish the local IP for that. Was that real or hype?
- univerio 10y agoThat's definitely real. Normal, unobfuscated VPN will result in packet drops after a couple of minutes. Even obfuscated VPN will trigger packet drops if you send too much traffic.
- johansch 10y agoThanks for that - it's great to have a confirmation. Obfuscated/unobfuscated VPN traffic, what is the actual difference at protocol level?
- univerio 10y agoPut simply, AFAIU, it's the pattern of TCP packet sizes. OpenVPN, for example, has a very recognizable handshake that makes it prone to detection. This post goes into some of the network-level details (not OpenVPN-specific): http://blog.zorinaq.com/my-experience-with-the-great-firewall-of-china http://blog.zorinaq.com/my-experience-with-the-great-firewal...
- rahimnathwani 10y agoIt depends on the protocol. Unobfuscated OpenVPN definitely behaves in the way you describe. But I very rarely have problems with PPTP, which is unobfuscated.
- stevesun21 10y agoTry shadowsocks it designed and made by China :-) https://shadowsocks.org/en/index.html https://shadowsocks.org/en/index.html
- slayercat 10y agoI agree, shadowsocks is much more powerful open source solution in crossing the GFW. But I’m hardly find a quick reliable service provider. And the primary developer (a young woman) quitted under the stress of administration. So the future of this project is unclear.
- bogomipz 10y agoBut its a game of cat and mouse with which VPN providers are currently blocked.