I don't recommend Astrill because of their poor customer service, unstable VPN service, and discriminatory policies towards customers in China. If you sign up outside of China (without using another VPN), then Astrill offers a 7 day free trial. However, Astrill does not offer the free trial if you sign up in China (they don't offer a money back guarantee either). My only problem is that Astrill is not working in China. I know China is so aggressively restrictive and I will be happy to pay more money to a company that is offering a proper solution. The app is great as it never crashes but if they can fix the China issues, I will be a lifetime customer.

Tough luck Instagrammers, you're in for a fun few days of fruitlessly trying to connect to VPN servers on your mobile device, thanks to extra tough crackdowns during the run-up to Beijing's forthcoming military parade.

According to Astrill, who issued an alert to iOS users of the popular VPN (Virtual Private Network) app, Internet regulators are 'cracking down on IPSec VPNs using the GFW (Great Firewall) auto-learning technique.'

What is today's best working China VPN. The excellent ExpressVPN is our #1 choice to use in China. It's reliable, fast, secure and ridiculously easy to set up and operate. Its no logging policy. I had been using Astrill for four years. They seem to have been singled out for attention by China's censors. Their main website was blocked long ago and now it seems their alternative address is also blocked. Often it completely fails, and you don’t want to spend 30 minutes to find a working server. I know that Astrill is working in China (but did not used it myself recently), I can only recommend 12VPN which is located in Hongkong, it works well and it’s very fast for users in China. Anyway, avoid NordVPN is you are in China.

Unfortunately, this outage of service is likely to continue until the parade finishes on September 3. Until then, expect it to be more difficult – at times impossible – to connect to your VPN service if you're an iPhone user. Hopefully, Astrill will continue to work on desktops and Android phones.

So just what '<a href='http://www.thatsmags.com/china/post/9731/getting-redirected-to-wpkgorg-heres-how-to-fix-it' target='_self' textvalue='techniques' does the GFW use to block VPN connection in China'>techniques' does the GFW use to block VPN connection in China? According to Astrill's website, in response to increased control over VPN use in China, the GFW has been updated so it can 'detect and block VPN protocols in real-time and automatically,' meaning that all standard protocols the app formerly relied upon are blocked.

According to Astrill, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) use 'DPI (deep packet inspection) to detect IP addresses running VPN protocols.' It then apparently 'takes them a few hours or in best case 1 day to block these IPs,' which might explain the need for users of the app and program to switch between servers before finding a successful connection.

Yes, it seems we are being taken back to the dark days of January this year, when China announced an 'upgrade for cyberspace sovereignty,' and those behind the Great Firewall were forced to use Bing for weeks on end.

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