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Hi, I just had a chance to review the IVPN service and have written a review now featured as a page on the site you can check it out here.


iVPN in China Review

 

Good stuff, not the best, but good

Blocking of PPTP and L2TP, did anyone see it coming?

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In the past couple weeks I had noticed a huge difference in my internet connection. Gmail just couldn't load correctly and I had to use the basic HTML format. I couldn't search on Google properly, and my vpn just would connect to newark like it used to. I flushed my DNS a million times, restarted, deleted, reformated. Anything and everything I could do I did. Being such a retard at these things, I simply blamed myself or my virus ridden computer. I never thought (why not?) that it was the Chinese gov't at work. How I didn't come to that conclusion is a mystery becaue they're usually to blame for this kind of thing. I was checking some of my stats at the 12vpn site and I notice that they weren't offering service to China anymore? WTF? And now it's 129 dollars for a year instead of the mere 70 it used to be? And no lite service? So I sent them an email to see what's up. It was a combination of things. For one, with the tsunami in Japan, a lot of the bandwidth here is f*ed up. They even mentioned something about internet restriction in the US to free up bandwidth for Asia. Isn't that nice. But I also discovered that China blocked all kind of shit over night, totally shutting down the Witopia site and crippling a few others. Some companies are kind of on their last legs (at least in China) as they switched to backup servers – the only backup servers they have. The block of PPTP and L2TP means that vpn's on mobile devices are pretty much useless now, and although I've read quite a few confident posts from other's in China that the blocking of protocols like SSL and SSTP is pretty much impossible, I think that the Chinese gov't will do anything and everything to get it's way and totally cut off vpn's in China.