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Post by mobutu »

hipaulshi wrote: post #139
mobutu wrote: post #104

On this note, we've been trying to upload gigabytes of data via rsync from Europe to China (we are software company who are trying to deliver tools to our Chinese customers..). Connection used to be fast when it was night time in China, but lately the connection has been really slow or unusable. Is there any alternative way to get lots of packages from Western countries to China?

setup a server with aliyun. the cloud service provider from alibaba. And relay the traffic from there.

Funny you mention it, we are actually uploading to the server in Aliyun cloud services. Completely unusable :(

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Post by 0xFFC »

geff82 wrote: post #178

as a sidenote I encourage all people with talent to leave countries with suppressive regimes. I think they should be erased from their position. One way to do that is to encourage everyone to leave their country. One can argue that staying in a bad country may one day help to build it up again, but on the other hand, nothing hurts bad people in power more than complete brain drain.

I have plan to leave, I am looking for os research lab to apply in next year or after and I am working on my langauge. quick question , your family does not have any issue with openvpn ? the place where I am we cannot use openvpn.they shut connection down every 2 3 min.

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Post by auganov »

loser777 wrote: post #91
mrb wrote: post #54

I was visiting China recently (my first time there). I thought bypassing The Great Firewall was going to be as simple as an "ssh -D" SOCKS setup, or a "ssh -w" tunnel. Oh boy, I was wrong. If you try this, or even a basic OpenVPN setup, you will quickly find out your VPN works fine for about 5 minutes, but then latency increases to 5sec, 10sec, 30sec(!), and then everything times out. After some research I read onlin…

Very interesting... I was just in China recently and was sshing into a box I had in the states for an impromptu SOCKS proxy. I did notice that things would work fine for up to an hour or so before things started bogging down. I would start seeing "channel x: open failed..." errors. However, closing the session and reconnecting would fix the problem... until it started lagging out again. I thought it was just a conseq…

Yea, in my most desperate I wrote a script that opened ~10 connections and kept restarting them and used HAproxy as a frontend. It was maybe helping, but honestly, I couldn't tell. Luckily I discovered shadowsocks soon after that.

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Post by dujiulun2006 »

0xFFC wrote: post #140
mrb wrote: post #54

I was visiting China recently (my first time there). I thought bypassing The Great Firewall was going to be as simple as an "ssh -D" SOCKS setup, or a "ssh -w" tunnel. Oh boy, I was wrong. If you try this, or even a basic OpenVPN setup, you will quickly find out your VPN works fine for about 5 minutes, but then latency increases to 5sec, 10sec, 30sec(!), and then everything times out. After some research I read onlin…

I am in Iran , you cannot believe it , same here , They use deep packet inspection too, they will shut every package down. every open vpn , cisco vpn , etc connection will lose connection every 2-3 min . Connection to outside web is almost impossible. I have noticed they have multiple situation, for example when everything's quiet internet is not so bad (despite the fact bandwidth is extremely low for huge amount of…

I'm not sure but I suspect that they got the technology (hardware and software) from China too.

As a Chinese netizen I don't know if I should be proud that we have world-class advanced technology or be ashamed. Possibly ashamed.

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Post by FooBarWidget »

Any knows a good shadowsocks tutorial for OS X? I'm going to China next week but I need to keep working while I'm there. I need to access Gmail, Github, AWS, etc. I can't get it to work with the few tutorials I found: the connection appears to freeze, and only certain browsers respect the OS X socks settings (no command line tools).

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Post by ColinWright »

loser777 wrote: post #91
mrb wrote: post #54

I was visiting China recently (my first time there). I thought bypassing The Great Firewall was going to be as simple as an "ssh -D" SOCKS setup, or a "ssh -w" tunnel. Oh boy, I was wrong. If you try this, or even a basic OpenVPN setup, you will quickly find out your VPN works fine for about 5 minutes, but then latency increases to 5sec, 10sec, 30sec(!), and then everything times out. After some research I read onlin…

Very interesting... I was just in China recently and was sshing into a box I had in the states for an impromptu SOCKS proxy. I did notice that things would work fine for up to an hour or so before things started bogging down. I would start seeing "channel x: open failed..." errors. However, closing the session and reconnecting would fix the problem... until it started lagging out again. I thought it was just a conseq…

I'm always brought up short when someone says/writes "24/7/365" because it really doesn't make sense.

"24/7" means 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

"24/365" means 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

"24/7/365" means 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 weeks a year?

I know, I know, it's become an idiom, and it's like "I could care less", and you can't try to understand it except as an atom that caries a meaning, but it just looks wrong to me.

Sorry - I'll now return you to your regular programming.

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Post by imaginenore »

liquidcool wrote: post #81
mrb wrote: post #54

I was visiting China recently (my first time there). I thought bypassing The Great Firewall was going to be as simple as an "ssh -D" SOCKS setup, or a "ssh -w" tunnel. Oh boy, I was wrong. If you try this, or even a basic OpenVPN setup, you will quickly find out your VPN works fine for about 5 minutes, but then latency increases to 5sec, 10sec, 30sec(!), and then everything times out. After some research I read onlin…

I'm curious, what is the risk of getting caught, and what is the penalty?

Spending on what you do, detainment, torture, death.

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Post by ColinWright »

nly wrote: post #175
mrb wrote: post #54

I was visiting China recently (my first time there). I thought bypassing The Great Firewall was going to be as simple as an "ssh -D" SOCKS setup, or a "ssh -w" tunnel. Oh boy, I was wrong. If you try this, or even a basic OpenVPN setup, you will quickly find out your VPN works fine for about 5 minutes, but then latency increases to 5sec, 10sec, 30sec(!), and then everything times out. After some research I read onlin…

Sounds like an overseas vendor needs to drop a blanket of satellite internet coverage over mainland China.

... usage of which would be detected, and the users arrested and hauled off for "questioning" about spying and/or being a terrorist.

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Post by radmuzom »

geff82 wrote: post #178

as a sidenote I encourage all people with talent to leave countries with suppressive regimes. I think they should be erased from their position. One way to do that is to encourage everyone to leave their country. One can argue that staying in a bad country may one day help to build it up again, but on the other hand, nothing hurts bad people in power more than complete brain drain.

Leave to where? To a country where

1. a few rich people control the entire political process by buying out politicians.

2. where there are frequent shootings and you are never safe due to some idiotic Constitutional amendment.

3. where regularly unarmed minorities are shot dead by the police and the majority jury allow them to go unpunished.

4. where there is no mandate to give workers paid leave include those with a newborn.

5. where lobbies can force the government into war and destroy lives around the world.

6. where there is a high rate of incarceration, primarily due to the motivation of a proxy war against a certain group of people.

7. where the child abuse death rate is one of the highest in the world.

8. where life is just a gamble where you have "opportunity" to become super rich at the expense of everyone else?

Sorry. I am neither Chinese nor Iranian, but I would take these two countries over another country who distorts the notion of "freedom" and "democracy" even when they have none of it.

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