“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”

Re:“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop... by mobutu on Saturday August 22, 2015 @03:38AM (#10101826)

On this note, we've been trying to upload gigabytes of data via rsync from Europe to China (we are software company who are trying to deliver tools to our Chinese customers..). Connection used to be fast when it was night time in China, but lately the connection has been really slow or unusable. Is there any alternative way to get lots of packages from Western countries to China?

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Re:“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop... by halfelf on Saturday August 22, 2015 @04:18AM (#10101901)

If this happens day to day, you may consider opening a subsidiary in China, with applying for special network. Foreign company in China can have network without GFW.

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Re:“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop... by est on Saturday August 22, 2015 @12:57PM (#10102977)

There's no "special network", it's just plan old VPN.

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Re:“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop... by qhwa on Saturday August 22, 2015 @09:03PM (#10104393)

The recent congestion is caused by the price reducing of ISPs demanded by the government. A lot of customers upgraded their bandwidth without paying additional money. This makes the already busy cables out of bandwidth.

Back to your question, the answer is YES, use a proxy, which is less expensive, or buy a dedicated private virtual line from a Chinese ISP, which is more stable.

You can setup a fast proxy by carefully selecting the routing path. Nowadays, the CN2 cable (http://www.ctamericas.com/content.asp?pl=627&sl=637&contenti...) is a good choice.

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Re:“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop... by gnur on Saturday August 22, 2015 @04:01AM (#10101864)

Ship it on an usb drive. (use encryption)

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Re:“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop... by JonnyGreenwood on Saturday August 22, 2015 @04:50AM (#10101960)

And get confiscated by China customs..

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Re:“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop... by M2Ys4U on Saturday August 22, 2015 @10:33AM (#10102584)

The latency with that method is going to suck, though.

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Re:“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop... by xiaq on Saturday August 22, 2015 @05:42AM (#10102068)

Somewhat anecdotal, but try IPv6.

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Re:“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop... by finalink on Saturday August 22, 2015 @09:15AM (#10102414)

Copy it to an AWS EC2 Japan server, and copy it to China from Japan. I have transferred 1T data from Europe to China with this method.

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Re:“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop... by mobutu on Saturday August 22, 2015 @01:14PM (#10103019)

Why Japan (as a location) is special? GFW does not affect traffic from Japan that much?

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Re:“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop... by qhwa on Saturday August 22, 2015 @09:30PM (#10104441)

It's also effected by GFW. Some Japanese IDCs connect China through CN2 cable which is not so busy right now.

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Re:“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop... by kinosang on Saturday August 22, 2015 @09:32AM (#10102448)

Use Chinese CDN (such as Upyun, Baidu CDN, Qiniu and Aliyun) for http file downloading (with a subdomain provided by the CDN or you'll need to apply permissions at MIIT as ICP) instead of rsync or ssh tunnel. Or rsync your data to Japanese Servers (Linode, GMO, etc) and ask your customers to download through http or https.

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Re:“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop... by mobutu on Saturday August 22, 2015 @01:12PM (#10103010)

The problem is to upload data to China, we are not downloading anything from there.

"Or rsync your data to Japanese Servers (Linode, GMO, etc) and ask your customers to download through http or https."

We've used Amazon CDN before even for Chinese customers and they have closest node in Hong Kong - they still(Chinese) have difficulties to download our packages. I doubt using Japanese server would solve our problem. Thanks anyway.

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Re:“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop... by kinosang on Monday August 24, 2015 @03:09AM (#10108326)

CloudFront, the CDN from Amazon, have already been blocked by the GFW. But you can use CloudFlare or Baidu's CDN, etc.

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Re:“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop... by mrredbit on Sunday August 23, 2015 @12:54AM (#10104720)

Due to political reason, I think Chinese gov seriously and actively censor package from Hong Kong

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Re:“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop... by hipaulshi on Saturday August 22, 2015 @04:45AM (#10101951)

setup a server with aliyun. the cloud service provider from alibaba. And relay the traffic from there.

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Re:“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop... by mobutu on Saturday August 22, 2015 @06:07AM (#10102097)

Funny you mention it, we are actually uploading to the server in Aliyun cloud services. Completely unusable :(

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Re:“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop... by hipaulshi on Saturday August 22, 2015 @08:05AM (#10102286)

lol.. I would have thought they have the fastest data center.

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Re:“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop... by mobutu on Saturday August 22, 2015 @01:12PM (#10103011)

It probably is _inside_ China. :)

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