General Internet Malaise

[roddy]

For the best part of the day I haven't been able to connect to MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, and most unusually Witopia. I held off on posting while I was out in a cafe as cafe Internet often isn't the best, but I'm home now and they're still not working. Beijing Netcom (or whatever it is).

Anyone else? MSN does stop working sometime, but not usually for this long. I thought for a moment they'd maybe blocked IM, but Skype seems fine.

[self-taught-mba]

Same here at least a few sites like yahoo and others. Now down. Seems slow also.

[roddy]

Was just speaking to someone else having the same problems. If you have witopia, set your gateway to Manchester and things start working again.

Seems like there some kind of obstacle between China and parts of the Internet. Apparently the opendns servers are also suffering, so if you use those . . . you probably can't even read this.

[Marco]

Accoording to 163.com a cable in the sea near korea has broken so there are some problems for the mainland

cheers

[roddy]

Right enough. Pesky cables.

[sthubbar]

Thanks for finding the cause of these problems. I have been experiencing the same thing.

BTW, I did some research and it appears that the 38.100.141.140/141 Witopia servers provide reliable and low packet loss connection. Even better than the UK servers.

[xiexieniii]

Can't access Yahoo, MSN, or thebeijinger.com from my house. My Anchor Shield proxy thing isn't able to connect, either. However Google, Gmail, and Wikipedia are as as fast as ever. I'm about to go to Starbucks and see if things are the same over there.

[Jim]

Noticed the same - recently installed the alpha release of the forthcoming Ubuntu Linux version and connecting to servers for updates has been appalling. Same with a few regularly visited UK-based sites.

[self-taught-mba]

It is sooooooo slow right now. I would add in a few more "o"s, but I'm afraid it won't upload.

[gougou]

I think so too. They say they're repairing it, but it seems to be getting worse.

[phyrex]

Glad to read that I'm not the only one with that problem ^^

Has anyone seen any estimate on when they'll have it fixed?

[roddy]

According to this it's going to take 一定时间, which isn't much help. More (Chinese) info here.

I've just got the VPN on all the time now.

[dalaowai]

At the other end of the world, Chinese website are all loading extremely slowly in Canada I'm guessing due to the same cabling issues.

[Jones03]

I can't contact my friends in Hangzhou on Tencent messenger... Just saw someone logging on and off again like 10 times in a row.

[self-taught-mba]

My gosh! the Internet is so slow right now that I can't even load Gmail standard.

I found a site that test your Internet connection here within China. That way you can see how slow it is going without the firewall effects. Most other bandwidth tests are outside of the mainland.

Edited August 26, 2009 at 08:01 AM by self-taught-mba