ATLien_0 Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 Hey guys, I am traveling to China on business next week. This will be our startups first trip over there and trying to get some opinions on VPN software that we can use to be able to access our google services while over there. We don't have an office server setup to be able to VPN in to . Any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven P. Administrators Posted October 20, 2016 Administrators Share Posted October 20, 2016 Get it on the cheap https://deals.neowin.net/search?utf8=✓&query=vpn Draconian Guppy 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnclePritchard Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 try this one for 8 dollars: https://www.tunnelbear.com/pricing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+John Teacake MVC Posted October 20, 2016 MVC Share Posted October 20, 2016 I am sure BudMan will vote for Roll your own, However I am hearing good things about PureVPN at the min. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATLien_0 Posted October 20, 2016 Author Share Posted October 20, 2016 Awesome thanks guys and all these won't have any issues when I get over to China? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven P. Administrators Posted October 20, 2016 Administrators Share Posted October 20, 2016 19 minutes ago, wv@gt said: Awesome thanks guys and all these won't have any issues when I get over to China? You might want to do a little research for if the VPN you choose is actually also blocked in China at ISP level, and which ones aren't. Maybe try to reach out to the VPN company that you're considering and ask? Btetter safe than sorry Draconian Guppy 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted October 20, 2016 MVC Share Posted October 20, 2016 As John mentions you can roll your own. How much bandwidth you think you will use? How many concurrent users? A simple 15$ a year vps, and 2 minutes to install openvpn-as package and your up and running for 2 concurrent. If you need more you could go with community version of openvpn just a bit longer to setup is all. Advantage to this for sure is cost of 1 year of your vps prob be 1 month of vpn services. While its likely that china could be blocking many of the major players vpn services.. The odds of them blocking traffic to some small vps service providers netblock is less likely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+John Teacake MVC Posted October 21, 2016 MVC Share Posted October 21, 2016 A friend who went a few years back said its VERY intermittent, They would block things at random probably just bulk block IP ranges. Not sure what its like now though... I presume it hasn't changed much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATLien_0 Posted October 21, 2016 Author Share Posted October 21, 2016 So far from what I have read ExpressVPN is the best working one. Has anyone else gone over there for business, any precautions I need to take with important documents on my work laptop? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted October 21, 2016 MVC Share Posted October 21, 2016 2 hours ago, John Teacake said: They would block things at random probably just bulk block IP ranges. Or maybe they just had spotting connectivity My past job we had customer that had site in china, and other than latency issues we had them connecting with the websense proxy in the cloud without any issues over standard proxy port 8080.. That was back a few years. Mando 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mando Posted November 14, 2016 Share Posted November 14, 2016 On 10/21/2016 at 3:07 PM, wv@gt said: So far from what I have read ExpressVPN is the best working one. Has anyone else gone over there for business, any precautions I need to take with important documents on my work laptop? my users have zero issues using Checkpoint VPN to my site from China. Weve also had success with Vypr. I would however recommend encrypting your laptop disk, especially if your travelling with work data on said device. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATLien_0 Posted November 14, 2016 Author Share Posted November 14, 2016 ExpressVPN mostly worked for my trip, thanks guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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