Unblock Facebook in China

Still trying to unblock Facebook in china? I’m not a computer nerd so I won’t try to be one, and I’ll assume you’re not one either otherwise you’d probably already know how unblock Facebook in China. It took me a while to figure things out, so hopefully this article can help you out. As far as how to unblock Facebook in China, basically there’s proxies and vpn. The difference is not that important, but what is important is what works and what doesn’t. To unblock Facebook in China I used free proxies for a while which were extremely slow and you could only view a few pages before their ads popped up to buy the paid product which was frustrating to say the least. Recently china’s firewall has gotten smarter and I’ve found that many of the proxy sites were blocked or extremely slow. So I moved to vpn.

A vpn is basically using an IP address from another country. What’s an IP address? It’s like the address of your computer. That’s why when you use Google in China it comes up with the Chinese Google. They can see that you computer is using the internet from China – they even know what city your in – maybe even your personal address (I’m not quite sure about that). So when you're trying to find Youtube, certain Wikipedia pages, or just trying to use Facebook in China, they cut you off. When you use a vpn they will think that your computer is somewhere else - The US, England, Sweden, etc, so you can then access sites you would as if you were in that country using the internet.

Now different people have different experiences using various VPN companies. I personally have tried a few, and although many claim to specialize in working well to access Youtube or unblock Facebook in China, many are slow as a monkey's uncle, or at least slow down local sites (Chinese sites in this case) This can be frustrating if your trying to see something on youku.com and upload pictures to you FB account at the same time or some situation like that. Also, some of them cut out sometimes which means that you have sign back in to the VPN and in some situations log back onto the site you were using or reload the video you were watching.

I personally use 12vpn but there are a variety of services available. 12vpn has a lite services which changes price every now and then, but it always the cheapest around. There is limited bandwidth which means that streaming and downloading may be an issues, but it's good enough to unblock Facebook and other websites. If you're going to be downloading torrents and streaming Hulu or Youtube I would suggest getting a services without limitations like their "12vpn world" service.