Comments on: China has upgraded its Great Firewall, frustrating VPN users to no bounds

By: Warboys

Warboys — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 11:02:37 +0000

Astrill is completely borked. OpenWeb works semi-ok… sometimes… so I can sometimes get onto Facebook and Youtube. The OpenVPN protocols have all been blocked, and connecting through OpenVPN is the REAL shit… that tricks services like Steam into thinking you’re actually in the USA (to get around location restricted crap)

By: RhZ

RhZ — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 07:59:43 +0000

I have witopia and also a private service run by a friend with a cisco appliance.

Witopia has been fine, but just want to throw it out there that during the 18th congress when I was getting constant resets on this private service, I asked my friend about it and he tweaked things, and no more resets.

For awhile at least. Still, they are/were able to somehow peek into the stream, because youtube vids were all timing out, even through the private vpn. Which, that should be impossible. So that’s pretty impressive, but I am working under the assumption that the internet police are as incompetent as the rest of the government.

I can’t remember if we fixed the youtube problem or not, seems we did with more tweaking.

By: Anthony Tao

Anthony Tao — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 07:36:07 +0000

I agree. Question for Astrill users — and I know a lot of folks who have switched over — how are things on your end? Asking purely out of curiosity.

By: David Fieldman

David Fieldman — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 03:46:55 +0000

For those readers using Witopia, you should know they have responded miraculously to the issue by issuing a series of workarounds and fixes, one of whcih I am currenbtly using. They reply to everyone’s request within several hours. A truly remarkbale and compassionate organization.

By: King Baeksu

King Baeksu — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:15:22 +0000

The turtle retreats further into its shell.

What has it seen?