Bypassing the GFW, SoftEther? PIA?

VPN
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My wife will be traveling to visit family in a few weeks and be behind the GFW.
In the past, I’ve run a SoftEther server from home and been able to use it. But it’s been a few years and I have seen spome info about it being upgraded. Does anyone know if the current version of SoftEther is still a good option?

As an alternative, and potentally faster option, I have a PIA account. Does anyone know if that works and how risky it might be for her to use it?

I’ve seen other VPN suggestions but I want to check on the tools I already have available first.

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No luck with softether

Mullvad is the cheapest option for a couple months since both their obfuscated wire guard servers and ovpn via shadowsocks will work.

Windscribe free works but is slow. Windscribe paid will work with wstunnel or stealth too.

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You need something like Hysteria or Xray-core nowadays. I just came back from a trip and in my experience Hysteria + Vultr VPS worked well enough

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LetsVPN has worked flawlessly for me lately (could be dependent on ISP or whatever, idk).

But seriously flawless.

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We just released a new tool Wallpunch that reliably circumvents GFW. Apps are available for iOS/Mac/Android/Windows and we offer a 30-day money back guarantee. If you’re interested I can give you a discount code for new signups as well.

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Just to make sure we are talking about the same thing, I’m asking about a self hosted SoftEther server (specefically version 4.42) and not a commercial VPN service.
Is that no longer effective against the GFW?

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I used mullvad in June/July when I was there and it worked fine. iOS works out of the box but sometimes you need to refresh Android until you get an obfuscated server (3 digit server number) or use their shadowsocks proxy

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Yeah I don’t know about this earlier comment on Mullvad. WG generally doesn’t work behind GFW.

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I’d love to find a solid tutorial on setting up a client and server for xray-core. The project’s documentation isn’t exactly amazing.

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vpngate servers which run on softether did not connect when I was in China.

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Hmm, its kinda hard to get straight answers on SoftEther. I was reading about the updates to the GFW made in the last couple years, but on the other hand there was a new SoftEther release a month ago and reading about th eVPN Gate project, it seems like it might be hard to tell what version of the server is running on an IP a user is trying to connect to.

I’m trying to read through what I can on xray-core. Unfortunatly, the documentation is really sparse and I’m not finding a lot of tutorials on how to set up the server.

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if you wanna use the xray to get through GFW ,use google translator to search on youtube in chinese,it’s developed by china guy