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china's ssh protection is getting really serious

vpns have been horribly bad the last few weeks

tunneling through ssh has also stopped working consistently.

I don't know anybody over here who has a good vpn anymore. It's got to be hurting business that collaborate internationally - the net goes down for a few minutes at a time, throughout the day.

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Using a commercial (but certainly not approved) VPN on a home DSL: It works for a few minutes and then starts to degrade. I wonder if it's related to this new tactic. It's a little hard to distinguish from old behavior, unfortunately.

Yes. I believe they start to degrade VPN/SSH, amazonaws.com, google couple of months ago. Things may vary depends on which city you are and which ISP you are using, eg: pptpd barely can connect on my DSL.

exactly the same thing is happening to me. Used to be better a few months ago. Honestly, this will be the primary reason I will leave China when I get completely tired of this.. Slowly getting there...

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