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Top Chinese university here. In China we had to use proxies to access certain foreign sites, such as Google and Hacker News, because of censorship. Proxies were
by renonce 5y ago
Top Chinese university here. In China we had to use proxies to access certain foreign sites, such as Google and Hacker News, because of censorship. Proxies were slow but speedtest was fast, so one of the guys tried including "speedtest" as a fake hostname for the proxies. Speed was immediately up to 1Gbps rather than 10Mbps.