[divbit]

(Shijiazhuang 3 weeks and Hainan 2 weeks) I did occasionally get good speed (I tried starbucks twice and one day it was decent, the other day was quite slow). There was a particular set of docker images that I had to repeatedly download that I found very painful to deal with, and eventually just decided to work on something else- I did in fact end up using shadowsocks, but on one day I set it up with a server in singapore it was reasonable (like 200-300 Kb/s), the next day it was 7Kb/s, so I'm not sure what happened. It might just be that I had a string of bad luck with connections. I guess if you live there it seems reasonable that you could buy a private faster internet connection / maybe find a reliable starbucks coffee shop. I am completely willing to accept that I might just have run into a set of bad connections and it was luck.

[caoyangs]

I heard rumors (just rumors) that Internet providers in China limit your connection speed to servers outside China unless you upgrade your service and pay more.