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7969



Joined: 26 Mar 2003
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Location: Coastal Guangdong

PostPosted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 2:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

mandu wrote:
it sucks man
because I keep in touch with family and friends through facebook so I need my vpn.

Surely you can go "old school" for a week or two and use email. Or else get a better VPN. I've been using Witopia for years and it almost never fails me. They offer more gateways, encryption levels and VPN protocols than any other VPN out there. It costs a bit more but it's worth every dollar.
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mandu



Joined: 29 Jul 2004
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Location: china

PostPosted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 3:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

7969 wrote:
mandu wrote:
it sucks man
because I keep in touch with family and friends through facebook so I need my vpn.

Surely you can go "old school" for a week or two and use email. Or else get a better VPN. I've been using Witopia for years and it almost never fails me. They offer more gateways, encryption levels and VPN protocols than any other VPN out there. It costs a bit more but it's worth every dollar.



this is the 1st time the vpn has given me problems and I have been with Astrill for 2 years.
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LongShiKong



Joined: 28 May 2007
Posts: 1082
Location: China

PostPosted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 3:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

7969 wrote:
mandu wrote:
it sucks man
because I keep in touch with family and friends through facebook so I need my vpn.

Surely you can go "old school" for a week or two and use email. Or else get a better VPN.


No need. PM me and I'll send you a free VPN that connects to most blocked sites including both Facebook and YouTube that I had to resort to when Witopia failed and I'm currently having to resort to due to Astrill being sporadically blocked.

Email? What's email?
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kungfuman



Joined: 31 May 2012
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Location: In My Own Private Idaho

PostPosted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 5:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

email? Gmail don't work either
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SH_Panda



Joined: 31 May 2011
Posts: 455

PostPosted: Wed Mar 09, 2016 4:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

LongShiKong wrote:
7969 wrote:
mandu wrote:
it sucks man
because I keep in touch with family and friends through facebook so I need my vpn.

Surely you can go "old school" for a week or two and use email. Or else get a better VPN.


No need. PM me and I'll send you a free VPN that connects to most blocked sites including both Facebook and YouTube that I had to resort to when Witopia failed and I'm currently having to resort to due to Astrill being sporadically blocked.

Email? What's email?


Sent you a PM Cool
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guobaoyobro



Joined: 10 Dec 2015
Posts: 73
Location: China

PostPosted: Wed Mar 09, 2016 9:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

There's a back-up service built into Astrill called "Stealth VPN".

I'm using it right now, with no issues. Same as during CNY. Dare I say it's even faster than the Open option?

However, during CNY, when they flipped their lid and basically told their customers "not to be idiots" via their splash message, everyone called them a bunch of jerks. They gave every paying customer 2-4 months of free service, including this "Stealth" option.

In good timing, too.

So, keep using Astrill. When it goes down, switch to Stealth. (Until they hit that too, but, hey, Astrill has always been real good about finding us a way. I've been a customer for like 4 years.)
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SH_Panda



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 09, 2016 10:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

guobaoyobro wrote:
There's a back-up service built into Astrill called "Stealth VPN".

I'm using it right now, with no issues. Same as during CNY. Dare I say it's even faster than the Open option?

However, during CNY, when they flipped their lid and basically told their customers "not to be idiots" via their splash message, everyone called them a bunch of jerks. They gave every paying customer 2-4 months of free service, including this "Stealth" option.

In good timing, too.

So, keep using Astrill. When it goes down, switch to Stealth. (Until they hit that too, but, hey, Astrill has always been real good about finding us a way. I've been a customer for like 4 years.)


Even stealth has been spotty for me in the past few days.
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LongShiKong



Joined: 28 May 2007
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 09, 2016 11:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I wonder if it depends on where you are. Stealth worked for me sporadically until today where it finally failed to connect to any server anywhere. I even had difficulty maintaining a connection with my free VPN until I updated it.
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kungfuman



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 10, 2016 12:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Stealth no El Worko lately
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mike w



Joined: 26 May 2004
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Location: Beijing building site

PostPosted: Thu Mar 10, 2016 12:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Stealth is working just fine!! Depends on where you are, I think.
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snarf



Joined: 23 Oct 2010
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 10, 2016 8:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If Stealth isn't working for you, go in to Settings > Stealth VPN Options and change it from Fast to Reliable. It worked for me.
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guobaoyobro



Joined: 10 Dec 2015
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Location: China

PostPosted: Fri Mar 11, 2016 4:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

snarf wrote:
If Stealth isn't working for you, go in to Settings > Stealth VPN Options and change it from Fast to Reliable. It worked for me.


Ah, thanks for the tip! Yeah, Stealth has been cracking in and out for me. I'll try this when it bunks out again. I've been bouncing between servers, and 90% of the time, it's fine. The other 10% I've just had to wait 20 minutes.

TIC. Laughing
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creeper1



Joined: 24 Aug 2010
Posts: 481
Location: New Taipei City, Taiwan

PostPosted: Sun Mar 13, 2016 6:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

As far as I can see you need to make an extra payment for stealth mode.

As trill is absolutely useless right now.

It's never been this bad for this long.
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mike w



Joined: 26 May 2004
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Location: Beijing building site

PostPosted: Sun Mar 13, 2016 7:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Astrill stealth mode is working just fine. No extra payment required - just change your settings.
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Mixal



Joined: 08 Apr 2015
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 13, 2016 2:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm on OpenVPN now and it's very good, Stealth doesn't work most of the time...
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