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GOOGLE 推出的 shadowsocks proxy server。

有没有人试过？

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http://startuplivingchina.com/how-to-outline-vpn-setup-china/

How to use Outline (Google) to setup your own VPN in China

By Slc Team, startuplivingchina.com

March 21st, 2018

One of the drawbacks of living in China is the censored internet. While most expats and travellers will opt to simply purchase a commercial VPN subscription to unblock websites like Google or Facebook, using VPN services can require a certain level of trust in the company managing the servers. Most VPN companies will claim they are not logging user usage data, but it can be impossible to know for sure.

Setting up your own VPN?
For the extremely privacy-minded, you could always try to setup your own VPN service, but the home brew route often requires technical knowledge far beyond the average user’s ability.

Thankfully, now you can, in just a few clicks, create your own VPN with Outline, –a project by Jigsaw (Google). Outline is intended to enable journalists and news organizations to easily deploy their own VPN in order to protect their privacy.

At Startup Living China, we are always on the look out for new ways to improve our internet situation, so naturally we wanted to investigate Outline. Setting up a VPN is one thing, but maintaining a VPN that is fast and won’t get blocked by China’s Great Firewall is another thing altogether.

So how does Outline fare in China? Does it get past the Great Firewall? This article will show you how to setup a VPN using Outline and detail our performance tests. The setup and tests in the guide were done using a Windows computer in Beijing, China.

Spoilers: Yes, Outline VPN works in China! (but speeds are not the best)

How to setup Outline VPN in China
Go to the Outline website and download and install the Outline Manager. This is the software that will manage the VPN server that your computer or smartphone will connect to. Currently, the Outline Manager is only available for Windows and Linux.

Sign up with a cloud server provider. Outline works with Digital Ocean. The cheapest 5$ USD / month server plan should be more than enough for one person or a small group. This plan allows 500 GB of data bandwidth per month.

Run the Outline manager on your computer. It will ask you to log in using your Digital Ocean account and authorize Outline. You can also opt to sign up for a Digital Ocean account directly through Outline if you want.
Choose a VPN server location. The best VPN servers for China are usually located in Asia or the West Coast U.S since typically have a better peering arrangement with the backbone China ISPs. In our test, we chose San Francisco. You could try Singapore, but you would not be able to access U.S. Netflix if that is the case.
Add an access key — this will act as a password to allow a device to connect to the server. You can create additional keys if you wish to allow more users or devices to connect to your VPN server.

Share the access key. The Outline manager will generate a message with a link that will contain the access key. You can share this link by copying it then using email or chat.

Open the link. Using the device you want to use the VPN with, open the link in the generated message.
Download or open Outline Client. After you download the client software and have opened the access key link, the client software should automatically detect the Digital Ocean server you created earlier.

Your VPN should now be ready to use. Just click connect to start. Check to see that it is working by using your browser to open Google, Facebook, or any other blocked website.

Outline VPN performance in China
Outline works in China! We were able to connect to our Digital Ocean server (SFO) and browse to Google, Youtube, etc. Here are our Speedtest.net ping times, download speed, and upload speeds. We also compare against a well known VPN used here in China.

Outline VPN, San Francisco server, Speedtest.net performance results

Ping: 244 ms
Download: 9.84 Mbps
Upload: 7.32 Mbps
which is not bad at all.


Outline VPN Speedtest.net Performance Results using Digital Ocean server in San Francisco. Fairly decent speeds, but not the best.
For comparison, we ran the same test with a well known VPN used in China, ExpressVPN:

ExpressVPN, Los Angeles Server, Speedtest.net performance results

Ping: 170 ms
Download: 31.07 Mbps
Upload: 4.87 Mbps
which places ExpressVPN firmly ahead of our Outline home brew setup when it comes to download speeds. For uploads, it appears Outline does better, strangely enough. Downloads speeds are generally more important for the average internet user.

Using Outline VPN in China — Caveats and Thoughts
Overall, I am impressed with how easy it is to setup Outline VPN from here in China. The VPN works decently enough, but there are some lingering questions. Overall:

Pros

Very easy to setup — no technical knowledge required at all
Works in China! That’s better than most VPNs already.
Decent download speeds for the price (5$ USD / month)
Easy to destroy and re-create a new server if your server IP gets blocked in China
Cons

The documentation describes this VPN as a proxy (shadowsocks?), which means there could be issues if you are doing any internet activity outside of the browser. Torrenting is probably not possible.
Unlike commercial VPNs, bandwidth is not unlimited. However, a single person is unlikely to go over 500 GB. You can also opt to increase your bandwidth by purchasing a more expensive server package.
Currently Outline only supports Windows, Linux, Android, and Chrome OS. Apple users will have to wait for their software release, whenever that may be.
Speeds with the current server choices are not the best — this is more of an issue with Digital Ocean. It might be possible to get better servers that have optimized peering with China in the future.
In closing, we will continue to play around with Outline and monitor its performance. The government in China has a propensity for blocking commercial VPNs but might have trouble shutting down privately created VPNs like Outline. That being said, if the Great Firewall figures out how to detect the Outline traffic protocol, this might not bode well for users in China. Altogether this is an interesting and positive development in the VPN space — stay tuned for more.