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...