BandwagonHost vs DMIT for China: CN2 GIA Compared

BandwagonHost vs DMIT for China: both sell China Telecom CN2 GIA VPS plans in Los Angeles, Hong Kong and Tokyo, and which one fits depends on the city, your users’ carrier and how you want to pay. On October 13, 2026, BandwagonHost was cheaper in Los Angeles and the only one of the two with Tokyo in stock, and DMIT was cheaper in Hong Kong. The comparison below comes from each host’s own pages and from dated tests by others. Our DMIT CN2 GIA guide and BandwagonHost CN2 GIA guide cover each host in more detail, including the routes we traced, and the CN2 GIA guide explains the route itself.

Which to pick

If you	Pick	Why
Serve China Telecom users from Los Angeles on a small budget	BandwagonHost	Both use CN2 GIA there. BandwagonHost’s 20G plan costs $49.99 per 3 months; DMIT’s cheapest Los Angeles Pro plan in stock costs $72.90 a month
Serve China Unicom or China Mobile users from Los Angeles	BandwagonHost, or DMIT EB when it’s in stock	BandwagonHost lists China Unicom Premium and CMIN2 for DC9’s China-bound traffic. DMIT’s Pro lists them for incoming traffic only, and DMIT recommends EB for these users
Need Hong Kong	DMIT	$39.90 a month against $89.99, both with 500 GB at 1 Gbit/s. DMIT lists no China Unicom route there; BandwagonHost lists a direct route for all three carriers
Need Tokyo	BandwagonHost	Every DMIT Tokyo Pro plan was out of stock
Need San Jose, New York, Vancouver, Osaka or Singapore	BandwagonHost	DMIT doesn’t sell CN2 GIA there
Want monthly billing in Los Angeles	BandwagonHost for price, DMIT for transfer	Both plans have 4 CPU cores, 4 GB RAM and 80 GB of storage: $56.99 a month for 3 TB at 2.5 Gbit/s, or $72.90 for 5,000 GB at 10 Gbit/s. BandwagonHost’s cheaper 20G plan can’t be paid monthly
Want weeks to test the route	BandwagonHost	Refunds within 30 days if under 10% of the transfer is used. DMIT’s full refund lasts 3 days and 30 GB, and it won’t refund to your payment method because “The network is not good enough”
Need a VPN tunnel to a network in China	BandwagonHost	DMIT’s acceptable use policy bans VPN tunnels to China. BandwagonHost’s terms don’t mention VPNs or China
Need CN2 GIA over IPv6	Neither	Neither host says its IPv6 traffic uses CN2 GIA, and October 2026 tests found DMIT’s IPv6 traffic back to China Telecom mostly on the 163 backbone

BandwagonHost vs DMIT side by side

We checked both hosts’ sites on October 13, 2026. Prices are full prices in US dollars, and neither site showed a sale. The last column links the pages each row comes from.

	BandwagonHost	DMIT	Sources
CN2 GIA locations	Los Angeles, San Jose, New York, Vancouver, Hong Kong, Osaka, Tokyo, Singapore; Amsterdam on CTGNet	Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Tokyo	BandwagonHost plans, DMIT store
Buildings in the shared cities	Los Angeles: Digital Realty LAX10 (DC6), CoreSite LA2 (DC9). Hong Kong: Equinix HK2. Tokyo: Equinix TY8	Los Angeles: CoreSite and Digital Realty. Hong Kong: Equinix HK2. Tokyo: Equinix TY8	BandwagonHost plans; DMIT’s Los Angeles, Hong Kong and Tokyo pages
Cheapest you could order, Los Angeles	E-Commerce 20G: $49.99 per 3 months. 1 GB RAM, 1 TB a month at 2.5 Gbit/s	LAX.AN4.Pro.MINI: $72.90 a month. 4 GB RAM, 5,000 GB a month at 10 Gbit/s	BandwagonHost order form, DMIT order page
Cheapest you could order, Hong Kong	40G: $89.99 a month. 2 GB RAM, 500 GB a month at 1 Gbit/s	HKG.AS3.Pro.TINY: $39.90 a month. 1 GB RAM, 500 GB a month at 1 Gbit/s	BandwagonHost order form, DMIT order page
Cheapest you could order, Tokyo	40G: $89.99 a month. 2 GB RAM, 500 GB a month at 1.2 Gbit/s	None. TYO.AS3.Pro.TINY, listed at $21.90 a month, was out of stock	BandwagonHost order form, DMIT order page
Monthly billing	Not on the 20G and 40G E-Commerce plans; from $56.99 a month (80G). Asian plans are monthly	Every Pro and EB plan	BandwagonHost plans, DMIT store
China routes, Los Angeles	DC6 and DC9: China Telecom CN2 GIA, China Mobile CMIN2, China Unicom Premium. DC9: “All China-bound traffic is sent to three carriers”	Pro: CN2 GIA outbound and inbound; China Unicom Premium and CMIN2 inbound only	BandwagonHost plans and CN2 GIA page, DMIT status page
China routes, Hong Kong	“Direct route via China Telecom (CN2 GIA), China Unicom, China Mobile”	Pro: CN2 GIA outbound and inbound; China Mobile CMI inbound; no China Unicom route	BandwagonHost store, DMIT status page
China routes, Tokyo	The same, plus “CN2 GIA preference on outbound”	The same as Hong Kong	BandwagonHost store, DMIT status page
IPv6	“IPv6: routed /64 subnet”. We found no 2026 test of its routes to China	“1 IPv6 /64”. In an October 2026 test, Los Angeles Pro’s IPv6 traffic to China Telecom in Shanghai and Guangzhou used the 163 backbone	BandwagonHost store, DMIT store, NodeSeek test
When the transfer runs out	Suspended until the end of the month	Los Angeles: slowed to 4 to 10 Mbit/s, depending on the plan. Hong Kong and Tokyo: paused until the monthly reset	BandwagonHost FAQ, DMIT store
Refund	Within 30 days of a new order, if under 10% of the monthly transfer is used and no IP is blacklisted	Full within 3 days and 30 GB; partial within 30 days	BandwagonHost terms, DMIT terms
Proxies and VPNs	Bans “Open proxy servers” and Tor relays; no rule on VPNs; lists “PPP and VPN support (tun/tap)”	Allows “Encrypted Private Proxy”; bans public proxy services that could get DMIT’s addresses blocked, and VPN tunnels to China	BandwagonHost terms, DMIT acceptable use policy

How each host describes its CN2 GIA plans

BandwagonHost sells CN2 GIA in its E-Commerce plans, mostly in North America, and its Ultra plans in Asia. DMIT sells it in its Pro plans. In their own words:

• BandwagonHost E-Commerce: “the best possible connectivity, including premium China connectivity in most locations, while still being relatively inexpensive.” A server “can be migrated between locations anytime free of charge, without data loss.”
• BandwagonHost Ultra: “Absolute best, no-compromise connectivity to China, with lowest possible latency.” BandwagonHost’s CN2 GIA page says the Hong Kong and Japan plans “are going to cost much more” and adds: “If latency is not an issue, consider using Los Angeles (eCommerce plans, link above).”
• DMIT Pro: its Premium routing profile “includes Tier 1 + all Premium Transit providers, such as DMIT’s backbone, and China Telecom CN2 GIA.”
• DMIT EB: in Los Angeles, its Eyeball profile “includes Tier 1 + Reasonable Effort For China Routing via CMIN2 or similar Chinese ISPs.” DMIT’s Hong Kong EB is in beta and “not yet recommended for production workloads that require high stability.”

In Los Angeles, BandwagonHost says it runs “8 x 10 Gbe CN2 GIA/CTGNet links across two datacenters”. DMIT’s Los Angeles page lists “Direct peering with China Telecom (AS4809), China Unicom (AS9929), and China Mobile International (AS58807)”.

BandwagonHost vs DMIT prices

On October 13, 2026, BandwagonHost was cheaper in Los Angeles, DMIT was cheaper in Hong Kong, and only BandwagonHost could be ordered in Tokyo. These are full prices in US dollars from each host’s order pages, checked on October 13, 2026.

City	BandwagonHost	DMIT
Los Angeles	E-Commerce 20G, in DC6 or DC9: $49.99 per 3 months, $89.99 per 6 months or $169.99 a year. 2 CPU cores, 1 GB RAM, 20 GB SSD; 1 TB a month at 2.5 Gbit/s	LAX.AN4.Pro.MINI: $72.90 a month, $218.70 per 3 months or $829.90 a year. 4 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB SSD; 5,000 GB a month at 10 Gbit/s
Los Angeles, same size	E-Commerce 80G: $56.99 a month or $549.99 a year. 4 CPU cores, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB SSD; 3 TB a month at 2.5 Gbit/s	LAX.AN4.Pro.MINI, as above
Hong Kong	40G: $89.99 a month or $899.99 a year. 2 CPU cores, 2 GB RAM, 40 GB SSD; 500 GB a month at 1 Gbit/s	HKG.AS3.Pro.TINY: $39.90 a month or $478.80 a year. 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 20 GB SSD; 500 GB a month at 1 Gbit/s
Hong Kong, 2 GB RAM	40G, as above	HKG.AS3.Pro.STARTER: $79.90 a month. 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 40 GB SSD; 1,000 GB a month at 1 Gbit/s
Tokyo	40G: the same price and size as in Hong Kong, at 1.2 Gbit/s	None in stock. TYO.AS3.Pro.TINY lists $21.90 a month for 1 GB RAM and 500 GB at 1 Gbit/s

Notes on the table:

• DMIT’s cheaper Los Angeles plans were out of stock. The smallest Pro plan, LAX.AS3.Pro.TINY, lists $10.90 a month for 2 GB RAM and 1,000 GB at 1 Gbit/s; its order page said orders “have been suspended until more stock is available”. DMIT’s pricing page showed it as “Order Now”, but that page says its table is “for reference only”, so we went by the store. Every Los Angeles EB plan was out of stock too.
• DMIT’s Hong Kong EB plans, from $24.90 a month, are in beta, and DMIT’s status page lists no China route for them.
• BandwagonHost’s other CN2 GIA cities. The E-Commerce plans also run in San Jose, New York and Vancouver at the same prices. Ultra plans in Osaka and Singapore cost $49.99 a month for 2 GB RAM and 500 GB at 1.5 Gbit/s. In Los Angeles DC5, the E-Commerce+SLA 20G plan costs $65.89 per 3 months and includes a “Free IP change once every 2 weeks”.
• No sales. Neither site showed a sale on October 13, 2026. BandwagonHost’s plan names include “PROMO V5”, but these are its listed prices, with no end date.

China routes by carrier and direction

Both hosts use China Telecom CN2 GIA in all three shared cities. They differ on China Unicom and China Mobile, and on what they say about direction. This is what BandwagonHost’s data center list, plan descriptions and CN2 GIA page, and DMIT’s status page, said on October 13, 2026:

City and line	China Telecom	China Unicom	China Mobile	Direction, in the host’s words
Los Angeles: BandwagonHost DC9	CN2 GIA (AS4809)	China Unicom Premium (AS10099)	CMIN2 (AS58807)	“All China-bound traffic is sent to three carriers”
Los Angeles: BandwagonHost DC6	CN2 GIA	China Unicom Premium	CMIN2	Not stated
Los Angeles: DMIT Pro	CN2 GIA	China Unicom Premium	CMIN2	CN2 GIA outbound and inbound; the other two inbound
Los Angeles: DMIT EB	CN2 GIA	China Unicom Premium	CMIN2	CN2 GIA inbound; the other two outbound and inbound
Hong Kong: BandwagonHost	CN2 GIA	“Direct route”	“Direct route”	Not stated
Hong Kong: DMIT Pro	CN2 GIA	None listed	CMI (AS58453)	CN2 GIA outbound and inbound; CMI inbound
Tokyo: BandwagonHost	CN2 GIA	“Direct route”	“Direct route”	“CN2 GIA preference on outbound”
Tokyo: DMIT Pro	CN2 GIA	None listed	CMI	CN2 GIA outbound and inbound; CMI inbound

The network numbers are the ones the hosts give. In a February 2026 Telegram post, DMIT described Los Angeles inbound as the “China Unicom -> DMIT” direction. So inbound is traffic from China to your server, and outbound is traffic from your server back to China, which is what BandwagonHost calls China-bound.

In Los Angeles, the difference is the route back to China Unicom and China Mobile users:

• BandwagonHost says DC9 sends it over China Unicom Premium and CMIN2. A NodeSeek review in August 2026 found DC9’s routes in both directions on each carrier’s premium network, except that traffic back to China Unicom users in Guangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing went over CN2 GIA. A September 2026 test found DC6’s routes back to China Unicom in Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chengdu on CN2 GIA or the ordinary 4837 network, not China Unicom Premium.
• DMIT’s Pro lists only CN2 GIA for that direction. In a NodeSeek test on September 26, 2026, Pro’s route back to a Tianjin Unicom line ran on CN2 GIA, then switched to China Unicom’s 4837 backbone in Beijing. EB’s route stayed on China Unicom’s networks the whole way.
• DMIT’s advice. In a support reply that the same tester posted on NodeSeek, DMIT wrote: “The telecom network recommends LAX Pro network, and the Unicom and Mobile networks recommend LAX EB network.”

In Hong Kong and Tokyo, DMIT lists no route for China Unicom, and names CMI rather than CMIN2 for China Mobile. BandwagonHost lists a “Direct route” for all three carriers but names a network only for China Telecom. The CN2 GIA guide explains CMI, CMIN2 and the China Unicom networks.

BandwagonHost’s other sites: San Jose, New York and Vancouver list the same three routes as Los Angeles. Osaka lists CN2 GIA/CTG in both directions, and China Unicom and China Mobile inbound. Singapore lists CN2 GIA and CMIN2.

IPv6 routing

Both hosts list a /64 of IPv6 for each server, and neither says its IPv6 traffic uses CN2 GIA. BandwagonHost lists “IPv6: routed /64 subnet” on all its CN2 GIA plans, and DMIT’s store lists “1 IPv6 /64”.

• DMIT: in a NodeSeek test from October 7 to 9, 2026, a Los Angeles Pro server’s IPv6 routes back to China Telecom in Shanghai and Guangzhou ran on the ordinary 163 backbone (AS4134), and to Beijing through China Unicom’s 9929 or 10099. Its IPv4 route to Guangdong Telecom used CN2 GIA. IPv6 routes back to China Unicom used 9929 or 10099, and to China Mobile CMIN2. Over IPv6 from a Guangdong Telecom home line, Cloudflare’s speed test measured 71.5 Mbit/s down and 3.45 Mbit/s up, and the tester advised China Telecom users to stay on IPv4. Our DMIT guide has similar results for Hong Kong and Tokyo.
• BandwagonHost: we found no 2026 test of its IPv6 routes to China.

In October 2026, a NodeSeek user quoted an earlier explanation from DMIT: CN2 (AS4809) offers IPv6 only outside mainland China, so the cross-border and mainland parts of an IPv6 route run on AS4134. We didn’t find it on DMIT’s site, docs or Telegram channel.

Transfer and port speed

The cheapest plans in Hong Kong and Tokyo include the same 500 GB a month at about 1 Gbit/s. The hosts differ in Los Angeles and in what happens when the transfer runs out.

• Los Angeles. BandwagonHost’s 20G plan includes 1 TB a month at 2.5 Gbit/s, and DMIT’s LAX.AN4.Pro.MINI 5,000 GB at 10 Gbit/s. BandwagonHost’s E-Commerce plan with 5 TB, the 160G, costs $86.99 a month at 5 Gbit/s, against $72.90 for DMIT’s MINI.
• How it’s counted. DMIT counts Pro and EB transfer “Bidirectional”, which its docs say means “both uploads and downloads are counted”. BandwagonHost’s pages don’t say. A NodeSeek review of DC9 in August 2026 listed the 20G plan’s allowance as “1000GB(双向)”, meaning both directions.
• When it runs out. BandwagonHost: “You will not incur any overage charges. Instead, your VPS will be automatically suspended until the end of the month.” You can upgrade to a bigger plan to resume sooner. DMIT’s Los Angeles plans slow down instead, to “Unmetered @ 8Mbps” on the MINI and 4 Mbit/s on the smaller AS3 plans. Its Hong Kong and Tokyo plans are “Paused” until the monthly reset. On most DMIT plans, a paid reset costs one month’s fee.

Refund policy

BandwagonHost gives a full refund within 30 days. DMIT gives a full refund within 3 days and a partial one within 30.

	BandwagonHost	DMIT
Full refund	New orders “ordered 30 or fewer days ago”, if “The monthly data transfer usage on your VPS is under 10% of your monthly quota” and no assigned IP address is “on any blacklist or blocklist”	New orders up to 3 days old that have used “no more than 30GB transfer”
Partial refund	Not in the terms	New orders up to 30 days old, for the unused time or the unused transfer, whichever is less
Where the money goes	“Refunds will only be issued in the original form of payment”	DMIT credit with no fee, or your original payment method minus the payment provider’s fee
What happens to the server	All services on the account are terminated and all data deleted	It’s stopped, then deleted once you confirm the refund
Main exclusions	Renewals, terms violations, disputed payments and excessive refund requests	No refund to your payment method for renewals, after three refunds on the same product series, or because “The network is not good enough” or of an “IP geographic location reason”

On BandwagonHost’s 1 TB plan, the 10% limit is 100 GB. Its terms don’t say whether a block by China’s firewall counts as a blocklist. DMIT asks you to contact sales “The same day you bought” if your IP address isn’t reachable everywhere, and won’t refund to your payment method if “IP addresses are not available in some region but the transfer used has exceeded 3GB”.

Proxies, VPN tunnels and blocked IPs

DMIT allows encrypted private proxies but bans VPN tunnels to China. BandwagonHost’s terms ban open proxies and Tor relays and don’t mention VPNs or China.

DMIT’s acceptable use policy, last updated on November 12, 2025, says you may not:

Provide Public Proxy Services that could result in the blocking of DMIT IP space or ASN. [Encrypted Private Proxy are allowed].

Use this service to build VPN tunnel(Include, but are not limited to, L2TP, openvpn, PPTP, IPSec, Cisco Anyconnect) to China.

Depending on the violation, DMIT “may implement a service suspension or null routing action for a period of 7 to 30 days, or proceed with immediate service termination”.

BandwagonHost’s terms, last modified on November 26, 2025, list these among the activities “We do not tolerate”:

Open proxy servers (due to abuse committed through open proxies);

Tor relays and exit nodes;

For a breach, BandwagonHost “may suspend our services to you indefinitely”. It lists “PPP and VPN support (tun/tap)” for every VPS, and its CN2 GIA page lists connecting “to your office or branch in Mainland China” among the things congested routes make hard.

If the server’s IP address gets blocked:

• DMIT changes it for free on Pro and EB plans when “ICMP and all TCP ports are blocked”, the server is at least 7 days old with at least 7 days left, and 15 days have passed since the last change. Otherwise a change costs $5. If the address was already blocked when the server was delivered, DMIT changes it for free through a ticket.
• BandwagonHost’s SLA plans include a “Free IP change once every 2 weeks”. Its public pages don’t give a price for other plans. While an IP address is blacklisted, you can’t move the server to another data center until it has been off every blacklist for 7 days in a row.

Before you use a VPS to reach blocked services from China, read what the law says about VPNs in China.

What independent tests found

We found one test that put the two hosts side by side, from November 2025, and several 2026 tests of each. These are single users’ tests. NodeSeek is a Chinese hosting forum and has been an official BandwagonHost partner since December 2024; the posts below have no affiliate links.

• Head to head, November 6, 2025 (NodeSeek): a user compared DMIT’s Los Angeles Pro MALIBU plan, at $49.90 a year, with BandwagonHost’s BiggerBox Pro, at $36.36 a year. Neither plan was in either host’s store on October 13, 2026. At the evening peak, from a 200 Mbit/s China Unicom line in northern China, iperf3 averaged about 80 Mbit/s to BandwagonHost and 90 Mbit/s to DMIT. Speedtest results were “几乎一致” (almost the same), and the user felt no difference in latency. The user listed DMIT’s IPv4 routes back to all three carriers as CN2 GIA, and BandwagonHost’s as CN2 GIA for China Telecom, 9929 for China Unicom and CMIN2 for China Mobile.
• BandwagonHost Los Angeles DC6, evening, posted September 19, 2026 (NodeSeek): on the 20G E-Commerce plan between 8 and 11 pm Beijing time, China Telecom and China Unicom had about 0% loss at 500 to 650 Mbit/s. China Mobile showed slight loss and lower speeds. A ping from the tester’s Beijing Mobile line averaged 154.4 ms with no loss.
• DMIT Los Angeles Pro and EB, September 26, 2026 (NodeSeek): from a Tianjin Unicom home line with 8 connections, Pro and EB were close at 12:50 pm, at 672 and 645 Mbit/s with no loss. Between 8 and 11 pm, EB reached 654 Mbit/s while Pro stayed at 89 to 91 Mbit/s in three runs. In the tester’s server-side tests, a single connection to Shanghai Telecom reached 634 Mbit/s on Pro and 136 Mbit/s on EB.
• Off-peak, September 24, 2026 (NodeSeek): from an Alibaba Cloud server in Hangzhou between 9:07 and 10:52 am Beijing time, BandwagonHost’s DC6, DC9 and San Jose sites answered in 134 to 139 ms with no loss, and single-connection downloads ran at 171 to 181 Mbit/s. Its Fremont site, without CN2 GIA, measured 144.4 ms and 184 Mbit/s: “几乎没有差别”, almost no difference. The test point was a data center, not home broadband.

Who needs either host

For a trip to China, you don’t need a VPS. For a phone, a roaming eSIM that routes your data outside mainland China is simpler. For a laptop, see VPNs that work in China, and eSIM or VPN for China? helps you choose. A CN2 GIA server from either host makes sense when you run a website, an app backend or a private proxy for people in China. Once you have one, the NextTrace guide shows how to check its route, and the CN2 GIA VPS comparison lists more hosts.