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OpenSSH is blocked by the Great Firewall in China. Thus useless for that key use case.

It is ?

I traveled through Hong Kong, Shanghai and Shenzhen for weeks in November 2011 and was able to ssh anywhere I needed to ...

I was staying in nice, expensive, western chain hotels ... perhaps that made a difference ?

Tips: Do not choose the cheapest one. The PPTP service I subscribed works most of the time.

In case you don't know: Don't rely on the integrity or security of PPTP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPTP#Security

In case that you want to fend off eavesdropping by NSA, you shouldn't. But I simply just want to watch youtube, browse blogspot/wordpress pages and get around of the Great Fire Wall, so I do not care.

I'm not worried about NSA here: they can track my packets even if I use secure VPN software. I'm worried about the coffee-shop-WiFi variety of attacks.

You're right that PPTP is fine for your purpose.

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