Out of China, visiting Chinese websites

[floatingmoon]

Many of the Mainland China websites are so slow, is it because I am not in Mainland China?

Does anyone has this problem?

[liuzhou]

Well known problem. In both directions. China simply doesn't have the infrastructure to support the number of internet users inside the country. Outsiders have to join the queue.

[adrianlondon]

The network is throttled going into china by the firewall. I assume it's equally throttled on the way out simply simply because it uses the same route.

You get used to it after a while ;) Websites that seemed fast-ish while I was in Beijing are very slow back here in London.

However, all the non-Chinese websites fly, so I'm happy with the swap.

[self-taught-mba]

It's the Chinese philosophy towards life applied to the internet. You've never heard "man4 man5 lai2" before?

[Shadowdh]

Here in China some are slow some are fast... not too different from when I was in the UK... well except for having to use proxies sometimes...

[digchinese.com]

Generally speaking the connection from China to Australia and the U.S. is pretty fast, but the connection from China to Europe is pretty slow.