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How would they discriminate between business people traveling to China (who probably wouldn't travel if their VPN was blocked) vs Chinese citizens?
by intrasight 10y ago
How would they discriminate between business people traveling to China (who probably wouldn't travel if their VPN was blocked) vs Chinese citizens?
- yorwba 10y agoThe same way they do it currently. I'm in Shanghai as an exchange student and I get very different connection quality depending on whether I'm using the WLAN on campus (fast, some Google-owned services work even without VPN), using my mobile connection specifically catering to foreigners (4G, no noticeable slowdown with VPN) or the "citizen grade" connection at the flat I'm renting. I have observed speeds of 10 MiB/s connecting to servers on campus, but VPN is usually capped at 10 KiB/s. Ironically, I was downloading a YouTube video overnight (using a VPN, of course) and after midnight the speed skyrocketed to breathtaking 200 KiB/s! No idea whether that has anything to do with this announcement.
- paradite 10y agoCurious if you are in NYU Shanghai? I think that's the only campus in China where you get unfiltered Internet.
- yorwba 10y agoNo, SJTU. Internet access is not completely unfiltered, just less filtered than outside.
- intrasight 10y agoReally that's what I'm asking - how do they do it currently?