The speed is great!!! Sometimes its even faster to connect via VPN than with the average Chinese Internet, since sometimes the bandwidth to certain sites is slowed by the ISP as an alternative form of censorship Youtube, Flickr and Facebook work just like they would anywhere else. Even when the government will come around and block connections to a certain server, thanks to the real live chat support you can either switch a server or quickly been helped with a solution around the Chinese censorship!