Hehe Well. I'm usually the first to say "I'm all ears" when someone comes up with a plan from the category "Best way to get shot", but in this case I have to pass on setting up our own cell tower, for now ;-)
Considering that, when you set up your own cell tower for bridging the firewall, the last thing you wanna do is test the connectivity over there :-)
I kindof can't afford pissing those folks off? You know? Besides having a Buffalo wild wings, also the cigarettes and the alcohol is way much cheaper over there, and we need their fabs to cooperate with for LibreSilicon and other projects.
-lev
david: if you get a Pokefi, and you always remain within the Huaqiang Bay Special Economic Zone, it connects directly at ISO Layer 2 to Hong Kong based cell tower infrastructure... *not* to China-based 3G/4G infrastructure.
consequently it is... "unrestricted"....
even here in Shenkeng (near New Taipei City) the ISP is a bit... shit (no censorship: just... shit), ports get blocked accidentally, including ssh and OpenVPN. mosh, interestingly, being low-traffic, tends to get left alone.
so, *sigh*, i have had to set up a special single link openvpn config and change the port number on a regular basis.
it would be really helpful if openvpn included the XOR patch that is used in china a lot (it gets rid of the deep packet inspection detection).