hi everyone! i’ll be going to China for 3 weeks in May. I was wondering if anyone has a recommendation for what VPN would be best to use there. I have NordVPN currently but have heard that it’s not great for use in China. I also haven’t been able to figure out how to connect to NordVPN and reliably stay connected on my phone (which is a xiaomi 12 pro). I have a PC, no apple devices. what’s my best bet? thank you in advance!
Happy travels.
I use Airlo E-Sim - it connects to Singapore. No need for a VPN…
I was in China in January, here is what worked for me.
An E-Sim that I bought through Alipay that allowed me to use western apps without a VPN as the E-Sim itself was from Singapore so it was allowed to bypass the GFW. Mullvad VPN for when I connected to Hotel WiFi. It costs like 5$ a month and worked great for me. Apparently which VPN works and which one doesn’t changes every few months, so look on the China subreddit for newer information as for which one works and which one doesn’t.
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Everyone I know there use LetsVPN, but I personally never tried.
Every time I go I use my French sim card with roaming or a tourist HK sim card (Therefore, no issues with the Great Firewall)
I travelled to Guangdong last year and I found LetsVPN to be the most reliable. I’ve also Astrill being suggested here but I found LetsVPN more reliable and faster.
no need forf VPN, just use a esim, very cheap for example bytesim.co
Your Phone doesnt support Esim? Would really stay away from VPN, roaming is much more easier
A few years ago my mom successfully used NordVPN there. I don’t know if it’s still good there, but back then it worked with zero problems. I was tracking her location through Google Maps on her trip around the entire country.
Esims bypass the firewall???
I used ExpressVPN last time I visited, very unreliable
Esim would bypass the great firewall?
Nord does not work in china
Yes. And as a foreigner it is perfectly legal.
Yes. any foreign sim will.
Download it before hand and yes it doed
When was the last time you tried it there? There’s only one or two VPNs that still work in China.
It doesn’t work anymore