Do you need a VPN?

Re:Do you need a VPN? by jbg_ on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @03:46AM (#15591625)

Another option is roaming on a foreign SIM card - this usually bypasses the GFW quite effectively; roaming is effectively a VPN back to the home provider, and there seems to be some whitelist for these roaming tunnels. The providers probably provide surveillance access to the Chinese govt, but you will not have trouble accessing Google and other blocked sites, and any VPN you like should work fine through a roaming SIM.

Whether you can find one with reasonable data rates in China is probably the main question.

Two that I have used with great success are Kyivstar from Ukraine and China Unicom HK (note it must be HK, not mainland China). Others may be listed at [0].

[0] http://prepaid-data-sim-card.wikia.com/

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Re:Do you need a VPN? by L_Rahman on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @10:26AM (#15593451)

I can confirm that the foreign SIM card override works from my experience a couple of years ago.

My T-Mobile had free international roaming baked in at 2G speeds. Unlike the US however, most foreign carriers in developed Asian nations (China/Korea) don't support 2G fallback, so I had free 3G everywhere.

It was pretty much like using the American internet.

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