Not sure if this will work in Beijing instead of other popular services like expressVPN. Should I take a chance or someone had the experience to share? Please share if you tried it on Mobile or PC/ laptop/ Mac…
Always have a backup (or two, depending on your level of internet addiction.) I’ve also found that when the GFW decides to crack down on VPNs, having an esoteric provider (e.g. not a common service) can sometimes skirt the crackdown.
My company uses Pulse and I don’t have any problems with it as I travel around China. (on my laptop).
As others have mentioned be prepared to have a back up.
For example my work VPN gives me access to company network drives but this does not give me access to google or anything else like that. Perhaps that’s because of how the VPN is set up on the company’s behalf. But have more then 1 option.
Have multiples, unless you don’t mind waiting. With shit going on in HK theyre working harder than normal to fuck with vpns. Private school institution vpns might be stable longer but on days where larger shit goes down, the GFW tightens.
you need a VPN with paquet obsfucation. in my case, I had to use expressVPN, the one provided by company cut off after a few minutes.
The hackers that developed Shadowsocks looked at the problem of censorship in isolation, without preconceptions, and came up with a proxy solution. They understood that obfuscation was key. To fool the censorship system, it was crucial to make the traffic look like normal HTTPS traffic. VPNs are ill-suited for that. TLS is a wrapper over TCP and TCP is a poor choice for VPNs. Packets get lost and retransmission is costly with all that encapsulation. Remember, a VPN emulates a network, with the ability to route multiple traffic types and ports simultaneously over a single channel. Historically, it was primarily a means to extend a corporate network across a public network, allowing remote users and offices to access private resources. They operate on the lower levels of the OSI model (2 and 3). Sure, you can obfuscate the VPN, but obfuscating a proxy makes more sense. SOCKS performs at layer 5 of the OSI model, and the Shadowsocks hackers devised an extension mechanism which would allow to experiment with various obfuscation methods, giving it the ability to adapt to future threats. So get Shadowsocks. Preferably on your own VPS, or use a endpoint service like Caonima.io. Needless to say, performance is way better too.
I know about shadowsocks and want to give it a go at some point.