Re: ISP/VPN's to China?

[Robert Boyle <robert () tellurian com>]

At 02:16 PM 10/21/2009, Fred Baker wrote:
> I travel to China at least once a year, often several times. I
> generally visit major cities like Shanghai and Beijing, but have been
> to a number of other cities. I generally use Cisco VPN (an IPsec VPN)
> to Cisco DMZs in Tokyo or Hong Kong for business purposes. As with
> hotels in other parts of the world, congestive interference depends a
> lot on the hotel and what the person you're competing with is doing. I
> can tell you a few horror stories if you're amused by them, but in
> recent years things have been improving.

I use the Cisco WebVPN (AnyConnect) client and I have yet to find a 
place in China where it doesn't work perfectly - even in rural areas, 
but not so rural that they don't have Internet access. However, if 
you try to do many "normal" things outside of the VPN connection - 
check certain news sites, logon to facebook or watch a video on 
YouTube, you won't be able to do so.

-Robert



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