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The server locations are outside Asia ("US West, US East, EU Central and Australia regions"). Any idea whether those servers have good peering with mainland Chinese ISPs?


Just for your information, many Chinese firms buy hosts from AWS, linode etc. majorly US located servers, had no issues with that.


US West has reasonable peering, under 200ms most of the time and I can run a VPN through it.

Best is HK though, is that region not included?


200ms is OK. How is the throughput? And which domestic ISP do you use?

HK wasn't in the list (I pasted the list directly). For some reason hosting in HK is generally more expensive than nearby places like Taipei or Tokyo. Not sure why.


I've been on both China Telecom and Unicom, in Shanghai though so YMMV in other places. I've heard Beijing is much worse for connecting through Telecom.

My throughput isn't bad, I can very occasionally get up to 2mb/s download speed but it's usually around 500-600.




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