I arrived a few days ago in Shanghai and I still have no idea how to get ExpressVPN to work, at all. Not even once. I’m guessing it simply doesn’t work anymore in 2023?
I’m currently on international roaming, but it’s around 15 dollars a day and completely unaffordable in the long run. I’ll be studying here for the next 4 years, so I need something that would work with my Chinese SIM card.
How do you guys do it? This must have been asked a million times already but most things I’ve seen about it seem to be outdated.
Ive given up on vpn and use shadow sockets. using shadowrocket app and buy the service from wannaflix. It sounded confusing at first but it was really easy to set u ,no more vpn problems.
ExpressVPN is trash. I would never use them again.
Can confirm Astrill works for me well in Suzhou, although it HAS become less and less reliable. I have noticed a LOT random internet disconnects. I think the government is having trouble targeting Astrill for some reason, so they have other mechanisms, such as disconnect/reconnect algorithms on any traffic that looks like a VPN.
The result is even Astrill is a bit of a pain in the butt, but it does work.
I’m wondering 3 years from now if there will be any internet left in China at all.
Just make your own shadowsocks server. I did it after getting fed up with express, nord and surfshark all not working. Cheaper, instant connection and works 99.8% of the time. I can help you do it or sell one to you. DM me.
Express VPN is terrible in China. So is Nord and others. I cancelled Nord (money back guarantee) and was just over the time limit for Express VPN money back promise. This was after I had given them so many chances to sort it out. In the end I gave up and asked locals what they used. I now have Astrill and two others which I’m scared to tell anyone about because I don’t want them blocked Astrill is a safe bet so are “shadow” family VPNs the cost is a bit annoying I agree but I use the internet so often it’s worth it personally. I have over the years had some okay free VPNs but most are intermittent and quite quickly become useless.
Well having in mind that ExpressVPN layed off almost 200 employees last month, it totally makes sense why the quality of this product has been going downhill. They used to lag only in the restricted countries, but once Kape Tech took over it, it’s just been getting worse and worse.
My take on this would be to go for something that is not owned by Kape, if you’re looking for something that will legit do what a VPN is supposed to do. I’ve seen this table on r/vpn made by one of the redditors, so maybe it will help you out when choosing
Surfshark was great when it was working. Tried free version of Protonvpn and it seems promising. I have paid for mullvad, all good now. I’ve also paid for ladder vpn, I hate it.
Astrill is a safe bet so are “shadow” family VPNs the cost is a bit annoying I agree but I use the internet so often it’s worth it personally. I have over the years had some okay free VPNs but most are intermittent and quite quickly become useless.