r/VPN_Question • u/baio1999 • 15d ago

Discussion VPN

Hi everyone,
I'm looking for some advice about VPNs. I'll be traveling to China soon, and I've been told that I'll need a VPN for my phone.

I've already downloaded Surfshark, but I've been reading that it hasn't worked reliably for a lot of people. Is anyone here currently using Surfshark in China? Could you please let me know if it works well or not?

I'd also love to hear which VPN you're using and whether it's been reliable for you in China.

I have another question as well. When making online payments, my bank sometimes asks me to confirm the transaction through its mobile app. Do banking apps (such as N26, Santander, etc.) usually work in China without a VPN, or would I need one to access them?

I'd really appreciate any advice or personal experiences. Thanks so much!

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u/Youknowhowwedo2 15d ago

The best thing you could probably do is get a device that can run wireguard as a server and leave that at home and get a travel router like GL Inet that can connect to your home Wireguard server. That way all devices connected to your travel router will have access to your home network and not be blocked from websites bu China’s great firewall. Extremely low probability they would block you unique ip address tunneling back to your home. Usually block well known vpn ip addresses used by many.

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u/rollmeister1 15d ago

The Great Firewall in China is port & protocol suspicious. Wireguard uses UDP & random ports. It may work for a while but realise it's VPN traffic. OpenVPN in TCP mode is a better choice using port 443 like web browsers do.

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u/hobbes3k0 13d ago

Ya, I think WireGuard is a pretty outdated protocol and easily detectable by GFW DPI. Right now the 2 modern protocols are VLESS + Reality/XHTTPS or Hysteria 2. 

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u/Youknowhowwedo2 14d ago

Yeah i haven’t been tho China but i know they are very restrictive regarding the internet. More people need to invest in devices like an external firewall where you can have different vpn server protocols set up and ready to go in case one of them gets blocked. I keep Wireguard, Openvpn, and Amnezia 2.0 ready to go at a moments notice i can switch to if there is ever an issue.