Other Ways Through the Great Firewall to your Facebook
I previously wrote up my methods for tunneling through a filtered network to access other parts of the free Internet so that I can see facebook, youtube, twitter and other sites while surfing in China, Thailand (today) and other countries with filtered connections (ahem, Iran).
Now, pal Shasha wrote-up of another way through your filtered (censored) internet connections by using HotSpot Shield:
我刚刚可以去faceook, twitter和youtube这些网站，用了这个hotspot shield的免费软件，可以通过这个连接下载http://hotspot-shield.com/downloads. Mac和PC都可以安装！如果你在中国，又想访问这些网站，可以去试试，不过页面上的广告比较郁闷，但是我还是觉得比较值。
如果你网络好手，又比较喜欢自己动手做一些比较高级的手段去翻墙，我推荐我朋友Jon Phillips的一篇博文，在里面他详细叙述了如果一步一步地设置方法。点击这里可以去他的网站上阅读详细操作方法。
现在还有人害怕Great Firewall吗？！
如有任何反馈意见，请留言。谢谢大家！
Oh, that’s right, follow the link to her site to read the English text about HotSpot.
Another method a friend recommended yesterday is to use a monthly VPN (Virtual Private Network) service which you can get either for free or as low as $5/month. This is often faster to setup in many operating systems like Mac OS X and Linux with Network Manager. I would of course recommend scrapping your junk operating system and running the absolutely FREE Ubuntu Linux-based distribution and using Network Manager as I’m doing now.
jon, stumbled onto your blog while researching VPNs. the reason i’m searching VPNs is because I had been using Hotspot Shield you mention here but it seems they’ve possibly been “harmonized” as i’ve not been able to access them for the last week or so. heard anything about this?
I’m living/working in Qingdao and I guess I’ll have to purchase a premium VPN service….
Regards,
Will
Comment by will albers — August 11, 2009 @ 8:29 pm
Yes, I think that is the best solution will. I think that is the simplest at about $5/month
Comment by Jon Phillips — August 20, 2009 @ 2:21 am