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The same way they do it currently.

I'm in Shanghai as an exchange student and I get very different connection quality depending on whether I'm using the WLAN on campus (fast, some Google-owned services work even without VPN), using my mobile connection specifically catering to foreigners (4G, no noticeable slowdown with VPN) or the "citizen grade" connection at the flat I'm renting. I have observed speeds of 10 MiB/s connecting to servers on campus, but VPN is usually capped at 10 KiB/s.

Ironically, I was downloading a YouTube video overnight (using a VPN, of course) and after midnight the speed skyrocketed to breathtaking 200 KiB/s! No idea whether that has anything to do with this announcement.



Curious if you are in NYU Shanghai? I think that's the only campus in China where you get unfiltered Internet.


No, SJTU. Internet access is not completely unfiltered, just less filtered than outside.


Really that's what I'm asking - how do they do it currently?




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