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PureVPN in China Review

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PureVPN – There's really no question about it – you don't need to get this VPN, especially if you're in China. There are a number of problems with PureVPN. I'll admit that I haven't tried it, but just from looking at their site, here are the problems I see.

Price. The cheapest plan is 10 dollars a month. For this *limited* plan, you are limited to 30 GB a month. This shouldn't be a problem for most users, but if you're doing some serious downloading – which a lot of people do with VPNs (I'm assuming to avoid authorities) – 30 GB of download per month should be plenty. Buy why limit yourself? There are services out there for the same price or cheaper that offer unlimited bandwidth.

Types of VPN. All VPN plans are limited to PPTP L2TP and SSTP.  For users in China, PPTP and L2TP are for the most part, out of the picture. SSTP is only for Windows 7 and Vista users. That means that Mac, Linux, iPhone, iPad, Windows XP, and Android users are out of luck. Ok, if you're running Windows 7 or Vista, you've got another possible VPN services with PureVPN, but why use SSTP when you could just as easily get SSL/OpenVPN?  SSL/OpenVPN is compatible with Windows 7, and this is the most secure VPN protocol.

Positives of PureVPN

Live support
Unlimited Server Switching
Not Blocked in China
Servers in multiple countries including US and UK

Yearly Plans

$75 / $145 / $160

Official PureVPN Site

 

 

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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.