it’s too expensive to be effing up.
Just get clash or Shadowrocket. Life is easier and cheaper
It’s 两会, Two Sessions time. Every year during the Two Sessions this is the case with all veeps. It’ll happen next year too. Another time this happens is like last year’s 二十大, the 20th Party Congress, or the 100th anniversary of the party in 2021, or the 70th anniversary of the formation of the PRC in 2019.
Any big politically sensitive event like this will have VPN slowdowns and even outages.
My Astrill has been fine this week. Maybe it depends on the city you are in.
To be fair, I must say that Astrill’s iOS client is the worst. Android, PC, Mac: once you connect to a server, it just works. On iOS I’m constantly going to the Astrill app to switch it offf, switch it on, try another server, load up Google to see if it worked…
I’m not experiencing any issues. Literally using it to post this from work right now.
I’ve had no issues using OpenWEB, but I have had no luck with StealthVPN (which is necessary for torrents) the past few days.
I remember a few years ago trying to manage with Express, and how frustrating it was, especially at this time of year. At the very least, Astrill is a big improvement
Haven’t experience any problems so far, but it’s very slow
Astril is bad. It is laggy on my phone and drains phone battery like crazy. Astril is not too bad on PC/Mac.
I built my own server and have not looked back
Agree. Can’t access Google on my phone. Astrill is fucking up.
Same! The only reason I fork out for Astrill is it’s reliability but it’s been useless this week!
No issues with astrill in the last months, really depend on your phone/device. I have friends that always struggle with it and some that never have an issue (me included)
Traditional VPNs are just flat out unreliable.
Caonima has allways worked, and a self hosted OutlineVPN server in Hong Kong worked fantastically when I was there a few weeks ago.
My outline servers are still up if you want access to it untill my free Google Cloud credits expire.
Technical questions aside, it’s 15 bucks a month, which is 108 yuan. It’s not that expensive as far as foreigner life in China goes. People need to stop complaining about how “expensive” Astrill is, I’m especially saying this as someone who’s lived through Express and Nord blackouts.
You guys need to give up on Astrill, they’ve had this issue for a long time now. I use to be an Astrill user in 2015 and they straight up blamed their customer base for spreading word about the vpn. They sent mass message to all their users to stop talking about Astrill because it kept getting blocked. Around that time the vpn wasn’t working for a month or 2 (around national week). This typical well known with vpn brands like Nord,Astrill,express (they don’t work at certain times of the year because the 50 cent army is hard at work making sure they censor everything).
Do you guys ever try to peek at Astrill on your phone and then it loads for a second and then shows that your VPN is off?
Idk if it only does that because I looked but it makes me feel insecure about using it when that happens.
had one day last week where stealthVPN mode wouldn’t work for a few hours
The mobile app has been God awful for about two weeks now. It randomly turns off without me doing so, and many of the links are garbage. My laptop seems to work well, though.
Has been working fine for me. It probably depends on the servers you connect to, try different ones.
My Astrill works great, but I installed it on my router instead of using the iOS version, that one is always clunky for some reason