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I was in Shanghai last month & in previous years bypassing the firewall was not too much of a hassle. When I arrived in Shanghai for the holidays this year my o
by c1sc0 12y ago
I was in Shanghai last month & in previous years bypassing the firewall was not too much of a hassle. When I arrived in Shanghai for the holidays this year my old VPN provider didn't work anymore, plus they added DNS poisoning and bandwidth throttling. I actually upgraded TO StrongVPN, which seems to be one of the affected VPN services now.
My conclusion was that it has become effectively impossible to run a western IT-oriented business from Shanghai. Would be interested in hearing stories of people who DO succeed.
Sad thing is that all the infrastructure is in place: plenty of fast finer in the big cities & the "local", balkanised version of the "internet" works fine.
- atmosx 12y agoSorry but aren't you better off with a DO VPS running an OpenVPN? I mean using a VPN service or Tor public server is like weaving a banner saying Hey I'm trying to bypass you!. I was able to browse the internet connecting through my home's OpenVPN (DDNS and all) when I was in China (for vacations mostly and some work) without any problems. Of course a home ADSL pipe is good only for 'www' and maybe not even for that, but now a VPS costs ~ 10 USD per month and has enough bandwidth for most people.
- subliminalpanda 12y agoThis is exactly what I do, except that I'm using the $5/month droplet from DO, although I don't live in China (currently in Oman), and the censorship here isn't no where near as bad.
- seanmcdirmid 12y agoUhm, many of the larger companies have direct connections out of China that don't cross the GFW, even Chinese companies. If you are important and rich enough...
- c1sc0 12y agoYep, as always money buys everything in China. I was wondering how the smaller indie IT people do it though: to me it just seems like a cat-and-mouse game not worth the effort.
- seanmcdirmid 12y agoRight, and I don't know what I would do if I didn't have an open connection in at least my office.
- crucialfelix 12y agothe DNS poisoning is annoying. I'm on the receiving end of 200 requests per second from people who think I'm facebook, bittorrent trackers, various porn sites. I finally blocked port 80 for lots of chinese IP blocks.