Going to China for a few weeks. Will have access to wifi. Looking for a good iPad compatible VPN that will allow Netflix and ABC without too much buffering. Willing to pay, but prefer a service that has weekly or monthly pricing.
Ideas?
Ideas?
Bump so the uber geeks can see it, and maybe my friends in China who are now awake.
Ideas on this anyone?
I use witopia in china and it works great for me, Their wiki says you can set it up on the iPhone so I don't see why you can't set it up on the iPad, can't try it with my iPad though because I am currently not in china, though I plan to try it in 4 days when I get back.
Currently using WiTopia as well. I've been in the Beijing/Beijing suburb for the last 3 weeks. All I can say is yes the WiTopia works great if you are on a laptop using their SSL tunnel, but the PPTP isn't so great. I suspect that the China "Great Firewall" still affects PPTP connections, as I've had issues visiting some website and had connections time out.
I just tested the witopia's PPTP to their LA endpoint on my ipad and iphone 4. The ABC player displays errors and tells me that I need to close and reopen the app. The Netflix for the ipad does load up, but super slow and the streaming is more like stuttering. This very well could be due to the crappy internet provider I'm given or could be the vpn or both, as I'm not sure what's the reason for the slow down. The VPN DOES work, but for video feeds, I wouldn't recommend it, unless you had a very stable and very fast down/up from your ISP. My ISP is only given me a speedtest.net speed of about 1Mbps down and like .5Mbps up. Unfortunately for me I don't have the option to change my ISP, but luckily for me I'm out of here in a week! Dealing with China's firewall issues over last 2-3 weeks have been hair-rippingly horrible and make me pine to leave here sooner!
WiTopia through my iphone4 via wi-fi and 3G has been decent, but I don't stream to it, since there is no official netflix app for it. I use it for e-mail and on-the-fly website access. The are issues with visiting some sites, such as Cydia intermittently tells me its unable to resolve or connect to apt.saurik.com. I had to bypass via a proxy. The PPTP vpn sometimes still would NOT connect via my facebook app or foursquare app on the phone to the parent sites. It's actually quite annoying!
I hope you find the right VPN solution for your ipad. I gave up on using my ipad and iphone for anything intense and simply use my laptop. I've have had zero problems with the SSL VPN connections as I'm totally able to visit all the china banned social networks and streaming sites, like youtube, twitter, and facebook, without incident.
Hope this info helps and good luck!
leons said:Also, are you using L2TP or PPTP? Which Strong VPN Server are you connecting to?
Thanks!
How about Hulu.com on your laptop?
Also, any experience/opinion Strong VPN vs Witopia?
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