[118425] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP/VPN's to China?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Boyle)
Wed Oct 21 19:30:03 2009
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:27:39 -0400
To: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>,ChrisSerafin <chris@chrisserafin.com>
From: Robert Boyle <robert@tellurian.com>
In-Reply-To: <DDE934D3-A73B-43D5-9180-68F539F62F9D@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
At 02:16 PM 10/21/2009, Fred Baker wrote:
>I travel to China at least once a year, often several times. I
>generally visit major cities like Shanghai and Beijing, but have been
>to a number of other cities. I generally use Cisco VPN (an IPsec VPN)
>to Cisco DMZs in Tokyo or Hong Kong for business purposes. As with
>hotels in other parts of the world, congestive interference depends a
>lot on the hotel and what the person you're competing with is doing. I
>can tell you a few horror stories if you're amused by them, but in
>recent years things have been improving.
I use the Cisco WebVPN (AnyConnect) client and I have yet to find a
place in China where it doesn't work perfectly - even in rural areas,
but not so rural that they don't have Internet access. However, if
you try to do many "normal" things outside of the VPN connection -
check certain news sites, logon to facebook or watch a video on
YouTube, you won't be able to do so.
-Robert
Tellurian Networks - A Perot Systems Company
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