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Re:China Tells Carriers to Block Access to Personal VPNs by ... by reustle on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @03:16AM (#14742169)
I'm headed to china next week for a few weeks. I need access to at least Gmail. Are there any suggestions here on an easy way to get around it for a VPN noob? I'm usually fine using PrivateInternetAccess but I'm sure that is blocked there.
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Re:China Tells Carriers to Block Access to Personal VPNs by ... by b9599b93b5 on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @03:36AM (#14742255)
If you are working for an international company there and will be using your company's network (through VPN or a physical port), then you should be fine -- according to a friend of mine who worked in one of those companies...
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Re:China Tells Carriers to Block Access to Personal VPNs by ... by tluyben2 on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @03:46AM (#14742296)
VPNs still work; ExpressVPN gives good results. Although I usually just forward gmail to outlook for the time being and will just use that for the weeks I am there.
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Re:China Tells Carriers to Block Access to Personal VPNs by ... by yorwba on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @05:04AM (#14742628)
FWIW, I have been able to access imap.googlemail.com from all Chinese networks I have tried so far. However, the first few times, Google blocked the attempt and I had to use a VPN to log into my Google account and whitelist the access.

This highlights another issue that makes internet access in China inconvenient: Many websites flag Chinese IP addresses by default, presumably because they couldn't handle the spam otherwise.

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Re:China Tells Carriers to Block Access to Personal VPNs by ... by baybal2 on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @06:37AM (#14742982)
The thing is that they block Gmail MX from time to time. Don't use google mail for work there
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Re:China Tells Carriers to Block Access to Personal VPNs by ... by tluyben2 on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @01:47PM (#14746245)
No I forward all to Outlook.com and send from there as well. Sucks but works.
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Re:China Tells Carriers to Block Access to Personal VPNs by ... by Canada on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @05:52AM (#14742800)
Shadowsocks-libev on a Linux box hosted at AWS Tokyo region works great. Digital Ocean Singapore region is awful, at least right now. I find ExpressVPN performs very poorly most of the time. Not sure about PIA.
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