Windscribe stopped working in china since 9 April 2024

Hi everyone, I thought I could find a thread on it already. But since yesterday, i was looking for it without success. So I created one.

I have been a Windscribe user for the past 4 years, but never encountered this. Winsdcribe stopped connecting in china since a day ago, while I was using it. I first though it was as usual, when a server disconnects, and I have to look for another one. But this time around, none of the different protocol has yet responded.

I was using the WStunnel, on 443 port for almost a year now, it was the fastest to connect and longest to last. Been using UDP as well before then, and sometimes now, as well as Sealth. They are now all not connecting. Including the other protocols and servers.

Maybe someone might share the same experience here, but I know other friends here in China are having this issue as well.

I beileive there’s still hope to get it back!

No worries! We are on it. It’ll go down now and again due to the GFW. We do have means to triage and discover issues however. It’s a constant cat and mouse game we have going on with them.

Also there was a thread yesterday but no worries.

time to rly have ShadowSocks/V2Ray support heh

Beijing user here, Windscribe is family man, been a member since 2018 , glad the team is working on it.

As per the post - same situation, UDP was reliable and fast until two days ago, now complete unconnectable.
Stealth and WStunnel work for now but not as fast, YouTube and Insta are buffering too much.

And why do I have a feeling that the aprils 1 video probably brought too much attention and spotlight to Windscribe , that’s a price of getting popular maybe.

Same issue mate,I was so freaked out after failing to connect a single server in a day!

same here it’s why I’m searching for relative post here :slight_smile: it failed to connect since about 1 day ago. Never happend before.

weirdly enough, the same UDP 123 server connects on android but not on iPhone, Mac , or windows. what gives?

It has been 9 weeks now and winscribe still not working in China. Any solution?

Thanks for the reply. Looking forward to see it connected back again

There are also problems in Russia. From some ISPs you can still get through, others can no longer connect.

Not familiar with it, but what’s ShadowSocks/V2Ray?

Wow, that’s good to know that you can even connect Stealth and WStunnel. Those ones haven’t connected since this happened. But I haven’t tried anything today. Since I managed to get connected with psiphon, don’t wanna disconnect it now, and wait for long again before getting back to the rest of the wolrd :). I’m also in Beijing. Will try those later

Really frustrating at first. It was the first time I was unable to connect any server at all. Even to get back online I had to struggle a bit with psiphon. Good to know the team is working on it. Cause there’s no better vpn experience I had so far other than with Winscribe

Unfortunately we must wait them fix the issue.

I feel you mate! I was in Shanghai 4 years. Nightmare trying to stay connected with mates abroad when VPNs went down :frowning:

Russia is a trickier kettle of fish but we’re on that too. We have very ambitious internal goals to ensure total censorship circumvention. We take it very seriously and I’ve no doubt we’ll find a fix for there too soon.

Could you help me!I am also in China.But I don’t know why I was block.I really need this account!

It’s actively being worked on at the moment