Using the instructions found on their support site, I have configured a VPN profile using L2TP, and also using the actual IP address of the PIA servers (rather than the hostnames). I will be in China for two weeks. Can anyone verify if PIA over L2TP works or not?
I can’t answer this, but I was in China recently so I set up an OpenVPN server on a RaspberryPi at home. I used PiVPN - http://kamilslab.com/2017/01/22/how-to-turn-your-raspberry-pi-into-a-home-vpn-server-using-pivpn/
Easy to do, didn’t take long.
The beauty of this is that while they may know and block commercial VPNs like PIA, they won’t know that the IP you are connected to is hosting a VPN.
I also set up Teamviewer on my Windows PC and a Macbook - so if the PiVPN died (and it did), i could still use Teamviewer to connect and log into home.
This looks like a great solution. Now I have an excuse to buy a Raspberry Pi. Thanks for sharing this.
OpenVPN is blocked in China unless you wrap it with the obfs plugin, but pivpn doesn’t support it. Curious how you got OpenVPN to work in China…
There are openvpn clients for Android and IOS. I have Android - when you install PiVPN it generates a file that you copy to the phone and register it with the client.
Strange - it worked fine on my phone, my wife’s iPhone and a Windows laptop. It stopped working when my ISP changed my home ip address and I had to connect to home with teamviewer and recreate the certificate file.
How would they ban openvpn?