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Which Region Is Fastest from Inside China
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On the same account and method, Japan and the United States can differ several-fold in speed — not because of the servers but because of your carrier’s international exit to that region. So choose a region by carrier first, then by time of day, and only then by protocol. This guide gives a starting table by carrier, how to read the load lights, what to do at evening peak, and a five-minute test; note the two steadiest regions as default and backup.
Try these first, by carrier
- Northern China Unicom: Japan and Korea first. Unicom’s exits to Japan and Korea are usually the most direct.
- Southern China Telecom: Southeast Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia) or Australia first. Telecom’s southern exits are good.
- China Mobile, Great Wall and other broadband: the China entry first — often the steadiest on mediocre broadband.
- Mobile data: every carrier differs; test separately from home broadband. The best region on Wi‑Fi and on mobile data is often not the same.
Reading the load lights
Every flag on the region list carries a small light, and the private-network client shows the same light beside each region: it is set automatically from the average live bandwidth per server in that region — green idle, yellow in use, red busy. Among several Japan servers, take the green one.
Red only means busy at that moment; for more speed, switching to a green region is the least effort. Each region has several machines and the system picks the least busy at connection time — you never pick machines yourself.
Time of day
8–11 pm is the national peak. In that window, picking a green-light region or switching connection method helps more than reconnecting. If it is still slow, the usual cause is the local broadband: shared community broadband, or a carrier and region that do not match — check the by-carrier list above.
Matching the protocol
- Lossy networks (old-building broadband, mobile data): Hiddify’s hysteria2 resists packet loss and is usually fastest.
- Campus or office networks that throttle UDP: hysteria2, Tailscale and OpenVPN all run on UDP and get throttled — switch to Cisco over TLS.
- Broadband that keeps flapping: the web proxy works request by request with no long connection, so by design there is no connection to drop.
- Three protocols on one account; there is always one that suits your network.
Five-minute test
- Measure local speed once without the route as the ceiling; if that is slow, no region will help.
- Pick two regions from the table, connect to each, and open the same speed-test site (choose an overseas test node — a domestic node cannot measure the cross-border link).
- Test the same two regions again at 9 pm Beijing time.
- Make the one that held up both times your default and the other your backup; retest only when things get noticeably slower.
FAQ
Why isn’t the nearest region the fastest?
The three Chinese carriers’ exits abroad differ greatly in quality, and a geographically close region may not use a good exit. Hence recommendations by carrier, not by map.
I chose China and an IP lookup shows Japan — is that normal?
Yes. The China entry splits traffic: Chinese sites leave from China, overseas sites land through an overseas line, and the IP-lookup site is overseas, so it sees that end.
Two connections to the same region gave different IPs?
Normal. A region has several machines and the least busy one is chosen at connection time; an established connection is never moved.
Can I pin one specific machine?
There is no need to pin one — machines in a region are equivalent, the least busy one is picked automatically when you connect, and blocked addresses rotate automatically without changing the address in your client.