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I've created Singapore droplet to use as vpn in China. Speed is dramaticaly slow. Why?

Posted on June 4, 2017

30kb/s in too slow for facebook, youtube etc. what is it depend from?



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I tried to set up an Open VPN server few weeks ago in Shanghai as well. But the OpenVPN protocol isn’t strong enough to hide from the great firewall; few minutes after the connection the isps start to throttle down the speed, then after few day they drop the connection during the handshake… Now I tried to set up a VPN using the auto install digital ocean project but the same problems are occurring.

Did anyone find a solution?

I have a VPS in Los Angeles that gets pretty good speeds as a VPN in China. Setup this one on Digitalocean Singapore thinking I would get blazing fast speeds, and it’s slow - very very very slow. Both are using Google’s Outline VPN docker instance.

Singapore server is slow as hell

Source: I am in Malaysia and the ping response time is around 200ms to 300+ms, yea, wth

Going to move my droplet to base in San Francisco

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