by ronaz » 19 May 2014, 20:58
I played from China last February-March and I didn't need a VPN to connect to FAF. My pings were mostly horrible but usually I was using hotel wlan, had an apartment with some ok connection but they had too many new apartments in that area so connection to foreign places was horrible usually. I guess people have better Internet connections at big coastal cities. Managed to play ladder with quite little of lag, depending on opponents location. Playing through VPN was a serious no-go, as China great firewall blocks normal VPN connections, so you have to first have an SSH tunnel and then VPN on top of that.. pings went too high that way.