If BES is enabled, Does all Internet traffic go through BES?
Hi everyone :) a Blackberry newbie here.
I'm an IT student. Each year I spend about 8 months studying IT in Australia, another 3 months staying in China with my family. I'm planning to get a Blackberry Torch 2 or Bold 9900.
I visit Twitter Facebook Youtube more than daily, you might have known that those services are blocked in China, on my laptop I use OpenVPN.
I heard that Blackberry is unable to connect to PPTP or L2TP or OpenVPN, but BES and BIS are available as proxy servers.
Most of the time I will use my Blackberry on home Wifi, probably will never use mobile-network when I'm in China.
According to my understanding of BIS, it is run by mobile-network carrier, those Chinese mobile companies definitely have blocked access to those websites.
With some research, I heard that there are BES hosting companies in many countries outside China.
So I wonder, if I use a BES hosting service:
1. Can I use BES through Wifi on Blackberry?
2. When I connect to a hosted BES, does all Internet traffic route through BES so I can access the blocked sites?
3. If I need to use BES through mobile network, does my mobile network carrier need to know about it?
4. Could you please suggest a budget BES hosting provider?
Thank you indeed for your attention!