babygodzilla Posted October 1, 2005 at 04:59 PM Report Posted October 1, 2005 at 04:59 PM anyone else having internet troubles in china? i cant access the BBC Mandarin site, and the Google cached pages. wth is going on? are they being blocked? this is ridiculous... this is the bbc mandarin site: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/chinese/news/default1.stm Quote
trevelyan Posted October 1, 2005 at 05:59 PM Report Posted October 1, 2005 at 05:59 PM BBC is blocked. Google caches are blocked. Nothing you can do about it save finding an open proxy. Quote
liuzhou Posted October 2, 2005 at 01:12 AM Report Posted October 2, 2005 at 01:12 AM The BBC news site is blocked. Has been for years. The rest of the BBC site isn't, so we are not allowed to read the news, but are allowed to listen to it! Google cache has also been blocked for years. It used to be possible to get round the block very simply ( see http://www.chinese-forums.com/showpost.php?p=29573&postcount=7) but they fixed that hole! Quote
laohu489 Posted October 2, 2005 at 01:51 PM Report Posted October 2, 2005 at 01:51 PM The best way to get around anything China/ Google related is a website called elgoog.com It takes awhile to be able to use it properly as there is a catch. I can't say anything about the cached pages though as I never tried it and am unable to now. But even when google is blocked, this mirror site (get it?) works perfectly. Quote
Battosai Posted October 3, 2005 at 09:10 AM Report Posted October 3, 2005 at 09:10 AM i believe elgoog.com is blocked as well Quote
johnmck Posted October 3, 2005 at 09:50 AM Report Posted October 3, 2005 at 09:50 AM I live in Europe so I do not know which sites are blocked in China. Nevertheless I did once work in a company that had extremely limited bandwidth and would block any sites if people visited them too much. We tried anonymous proxy sites, but these were eventually blocked as well. One site they never blocked was http://babelfish.altavista.com If one chose a language translation that had no relevance to the text one was reading (example French to German when reading an English or Chinese language site) it would act as an anonymous proxy (for the text). Pictures were still blocked because these came direct from the original site, but it was better than nothing. I don't know if it still works but I guess it is worth a try. John. Quote
liuzhou Posted October 3, 2005 at 01:44 PM Report Posted October 3, 2005 at 01:44 PM Altavista has been blocked in China for a long time. That includes the babelfish part. There are other "translation" sites, but seems a less than perfect solution. Just ask some Chinese youths which proxies they use! Quote
roddy Posted October 3, 2005 at 01:51 PM Report Posted October 3, 2005 at 01:51 PM I can get babelfish fine from Beijing. Attempting to translate a bbc news page fails though. Roddy Quote
liuzhou Posted October 3, 2005 at 02:13 PM Report Posted October 3, 2005 at 02:13 PM Really! I have never been able to get it. On the few occasions I want computer translation (the bane of my existence), I go to Systran which is the engine behind babelfish anyway. Quote
babygodzilla Posted October 9, 2005 at 03:40 PM Author Report Posted October 9, 2005 at 03:40 PM thx for the replies! in another thread i found Your Freedom! its a proxy thing and it works well! Quote
wtanaka Posted October 10, 2005 at 07:15 AM Report Posted October 10, 2005 at 07:15 AM you might be interested in reading this article about the great firewall. Quote
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