Re: China Telecom VPN problems (again)

[Warren Bailey <wbailey () satelliteintelligencegroup com>]

We tried to get our VPN work from the China Telecom/China Unicom beijing
POP for over a year. The Chinese always claimed it was kosher, but we had
something like 60%+ loss across our 4 hop VPN for the entirety of the
project. Private circuits don't really exist on the mainland, HK and
(maybe) Shanghai are about the only places for decent connectivity. :/

On 12/5/12 7:38 AM, "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists () gmail com> wrote:

> It's called the great firewall of china. Feel free to shift vendors but it
> won't help.
>
> Meanwhile make sure none of your users are surfing for falun gong,
> dalai lama, ai weiwei or whoever else the chicom censors don't like on
> that
> particular day
>
> On Wednesday, December 5, 2012, Thomas York wrote:
>
> > It looks like I'm having China Telecom issues yet again. They're batting
> > down our SSL VPN tunnels. Switching ports doesn't help. Tunneling the
> > SSL
> > tunnel inside of another tunnel doesn't help. At this point I'm tired of
> > listening to the screaming by the business users. Can someone contact me
> > (here or off-list, I don't care) about circuits in China so that we
> > don't
> > have to use China Telecom? We'd only need 2-10 Mbit and Ethernet hand
> > off.
> > We don't need BGP or MPLS or anything remotely fancy. Our main concern
> > is
> > getting connectivity to the business district in Suzhou, but it'd be
> > nice
> > if
> > we could also use the same carrier in Shenzhen.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> >
> > -- Thomas York
>
> -- 
> --srs (iPad)