Shanghai Telecom Cloud Broadband CN2 Overseas Acceleration: A Huge Letdown
This post was translated from Chinese by AI. If anything reads oddly, the Chinese original is authoritative. 中文原文
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I tried the 3-day plan, then turned it off within half an hour.
A few problems
- Bridge mode isn't supported. I was using bridge mode, but they changed it to a LAN setup, so I had to ask the China Telecom technician to change it back
- Only specific websites get accelerated; it does nothing for my own servers or other websites
- Traffic goes through Hong Kong, rather than exiting directly from Shanghai
- Basically, they add a VPN layer upstream, because testing showed two IPs, one in Shanghai and one in Hong Kong
- Overall speeds dropped. I used to get 20M connecting to my overseas server, but with this enabled, upload and download were only 2M/s
- Domestic speed tests dropped from 700/80 to 300/40
Problems everywhere. The only benefit might be that direct connections to github went from over 700 ping to over 300 ping, with better stability. The traceroute results also looked slightly better
But what's the point?...
I canceled it right away and bought the technician a pack of cigarettes to get him to restore bridge mode + a public IP...
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