Ask HN: Those who moved careers from the West to China, what's your experience?

Re:Ask HN: Those who moved careers from the West to China, w... by intellix on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @11:04AM (#19501517)

Haven't moved my career here but am working remotely for a couple of months.

All of my work is European and I'm on the verge of leaving due to how bad the internet gets at night.

Throughout the day you've got ExpesssVPM and Shadowsocks but at around 7pm every night there's a huge crackdown on foreign traffic where even obscure sites fail to load.

It's probably fine if your work is 9-5 but outside of then the internet for foreign usage is pretty much unusable that I want to curl up into a ball and cry most nights.

Baidu and Chinese sites will consistently ping at around 40ms consistently but at night you're looking at something like 70% packet loss and 2sec pings outside

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Re:Ask HN: Those who moved careers from the West to China, w... by rwmj on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @12:32PM (#19502670)

Is there some reason why this only happens from 7pm? I would have thought that the net would either be censored all the time and nothing would ever work, or else a VPN would work always.

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Re:Ask HN: Those who moved careers from the West to China, w... by JoelTheSuperior on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @12:57PM (#19502975)

If I had to guess, they reduce the censorship during the day to lessen the effect on businesses. In the evening it's primarily going to be people using the internet at home, which they'll want to control more tightly.

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Re:Ask HN: Those who moved careers from the West to China, w... by srouhaewaehy on Thursday March 28, 2019 @10:48AM (#19512684)

Also in 9-5 China time most western people are not online. But in the Chinese evening Europe wakes up and then slowly also the US comes online leaking into the Chinese morning.

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