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by askura 1024 days ago
I used to find it worked here and there for me (Shanghai Telecom, 4/5G was OK. Home didn't work). Shadowsocks worked well for me but then got janky - ended up using a local VPN for gaming and Windscribe for general browsing. For 3 sweet months I could run a AWS node and relay through that with awesome speeds but then that broke too. Ended up just with a residential IP and that solved everything til I left.

There is of course times like when the Two Sessions are in order and nothing worked.
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KomoD 1024 days ago
> Windscribe for general browsing.

Do you work for / are affiliated with Windscribe?

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askura 1024 days ago
Yeah I made the original map and the updated version, updating the suggestions from the thread now so if you have any by all means let me know and I'll add them.

I made this while in China: https://www.reddit.com/r/shanghai/comments/pp39xi/the_2021_c...

Was based there 4 years so got very familiar with the VPN scene over there so if you have any questions let me know! I found for gaming for example you can't beat local VPNs for latency. No western operation can compete with that.

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EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 1024 days ago
>> Ended up just with a residential IP and that solved everything til I left.

What does that mean? You installed a proxy/vpn server at someone's house in the US and GFW didn't block it?

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askura 1024 days ago
Nah some VPNs allow you to rent a "residential" I.P which is shared by 5-15 people tops. They're rarely caught up or get flagged. This was in 2021 however so can't comment on the effectiveness rn
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