Ok internet experts…I'm relying on you, to assist me! I'm heading to China, in August, and am lead to believe that I can't just access to FB, via ordinary internet/wifi. True? If so, how do I get around that?
Of course, I'm looking for the cheapest, yet reliable, way :)
Simple instructions would be appreciated! (I understand most techy things, but sometimes the lingo is just too much for me!)
Thanks in advance!
Shame on me for having an actual conversation with someone, then posting a question here, before checking the almighty Google! :(
Go without it and enjoy your holiday. There are other ways to communicate,
Yeah, expensive ways, that's why I was looking for cheap :)
Skype? Email?
Not what I was asking about though, was it? Gee…what is it with some people?!
You will need to purchase a VPN in order to bypass the 'great firewall'.
I used Astrill VPN during my stay in Shanghai last year - worked a treat: https://www.astrill.com/
Costs about $5 a month.
Thanks! :)
Hideninja VPN worked very well on Android. Very simple to connect, and when connected, it works for every app on the device including Facebook, Google+ and Twitter. There is a free version which is good enough that you won't need to buy the full version.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cryptninja…
Perfect for the phone! Thanks heaps! :)
Lesson learnt - Don't use the Forums again! Apologies if I wasted your 'precious' time!
Thanks to those that actually responded with real answers.
Over and out :)
As long as you use international roaming on your Aussie phone, it's not blocked by the firewall.
I leave my home PC on and use TeamViewer to remotely access it and then surf the web as if I was sitting at home using the internet. Something we discovered at work to get around the excessive restrictions placed on surfing the net and the total lack of youtube :(
Most of the cheap VPN's don't work we'll in China. The 'Great Fire Wall' is constantly monitoring and blocking them. Even the more expensive ones still mean accessing FB etc is frustratingly slow and downloading a YouTube video so slow it's just not worth it. That said - I persevered (along with every expat who lives in China!) for years using VPN's. there are some free ones available on line if you google but the best one we used was Witopia - not free though. Witopiia are very helpful and they will walk you through how to use it.
Amazing how condescending and rude some people can be, eh? Let's just hope when they ask a question that they are as equally ignorant of the subject matter, they get equally rude responses; Karma!!
Most modern modems/routers have their own VPN for you to connect to. Basically if you set it up you could connect to your modem through an encrypted tunnel that would then be able to access the internet from there. It basically be like you were accessing the internet from your own home (with bandwidth charges included) but it would be for the most part cheap and private. Even iPhones can be set up to use VPNs.
Imagine if there was a place where questions could be answered quickly, easily and without disturbing others.
I imagine that place to have a sign. A coloured sign even. Possibly 4 colours, with the same colour used more than once. I imagine people have worked at this place for years to perfect a data locating function so simple, so easy, that anyone could use it. Sadly this all seems but a dream at the moment. Maybe one day people will want this resource available to them. Until then, we will just have to suffice with message board posts asking the same things.
http://goo.gl/w2ZsnG