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Ours is. And so is the internet for many other friends in offices and apartments across Shanghai.
Oddly, Gmail and Google GTalk are the only things (other than Chinese websites) that will load for us right now. We get about one-fifth of the Shanghaiist home page and then it craps out. (How did we manage to post this? Why, Shanghaiist's St. Louis bureau, of course. Thanks, Ryan!)
We've been told that things are OK internet-wise up in Beijing, so maybe this is just a Shanghai thing. But, seriously, are there any other major "international cities" out there where a kink in a cord can fuck things up for millions and millions of people? We've got college football scores to check.
UPDATE: This just in:
Taiwan quake disrupts mainland InternetShanghai. December 27. INTERFAX-CHINA - A large earthquake near Taiwan last night has disrupted mainland China's Internet access to international Web sites, a China Netcom official told Interfax today.
"The earthquake in Taiwan affected the undersea optical cable, which disrupted the Internet connection to international Web sites. We are trying to restore the Internet connection by using some back-up networks and satellite communication," Zhou Yaqin, a public relations official at China Netcom, said.
Zhou said the company does not know when Internet access will return to normal.
Last night at 8:26 p.m. a 7.1 magnitude earthquake stuck off the southwestern coast of Taiwan, according to the U.S. Geogological Survey.
Oddly, people say things are loading fine in Pudong. Want to share a cab?
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Well, I was on the Internet to some Chinese websites today. Right after sometimes around 2:45 PM EST in New York, I wasn't able to connect to ANY sites in China, for example, Baidu.com. I used the four different Internet Carriers, Sprint, MegaPath, Earthlink, and Time Warner Cable. All the same results.
Until now, none of sites are accessible. So far, this news hasn't been announced yet in US.
Before knocking Shanghai off as a major international city, access to the Internet has been significantly affected from Singapore to South Korea.
In any event, nothing to compared to the damage and lives lost in Taiwan as result of this quake.
It is not only in Shanghai. The same thing happened in Guangzhou. In the whole morning, I cannot open any local webpages, 'cos my company's server is abroad. It still not workable till now, only sina.com can be reached at a very slow speed.
Actually, it was the MSN that tells me something must go wrong in China. In the morning, almost all China local users are invisible. In most of the time, there are only 3 of friends, who is abroad or using abroad servers. Even by this minute, MSN is not stable to most of my local friends.
What a day!
It looks like problem not just at Shanghai, I am in Sydney, Australia, there are large number of Chinese websites can't access from oversea, also tried to call someone in South Korea the mobile phone network is jammed as well.
Unable to access any sites in China (or extremely slow, then broken) for hours by now, It's 5am San Francisco time.
By the way, I tried to open also several sites in Hong Kong, no luck either. It must have something to do with the damage of undersea cable due to Taiwan earthquake.
at least now i know the cause, i thought it was due to my computer that i can't access websites in China.
btw, from Australia
I'm in Malaysia and we were down until about 2 hours ago. But it's still slow. This page took 2 minutes to load.....
Does it makes any diffrences anyway??
3 weeks ago, I couldn't download my email form my server in CA,USA, a friend of mine had the same problem in her company, it seems that the Chinese did a routine check on their firewall, by blocking all emails form abroad from being downloaded in China...So that or an earthquake...doesnt make that much difference...+ you can expect these dumb ass at teh propaganda bureau or whatever teh shit is called, will take this for an opportunity to block more foreign website and email from being accessed..and will blame then teh technical difficulties that reamain because of teh earthquake...too bad the earthquake didn't happen in Bejing...
I am in Shanghai and have not experienced or noticed anything different or unusual. Shanghaiist always takes too long to load. All my other local and international sites are opening as quickly and easily as always. The only noticeable thing is an absence of e-mails from overseas ... but the telephone works just fine :)
I AM AT SANTO DOMINGO AND THE SAME THING THAT WE CAN T ACCES THE CHINE INTERNET PAGE AND PLEASE REPAIR IT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
24 hours ago, the Internet to China from US has been partially restored. It's possible that the most of traffic is being "re-routed" via landline cables connecting China and Europe, or the oversea optical cables connecting among China, Korea, and Japan.
Yeah Wuhan has been more or less disconnected since the 27th. Doh! I have had to resort to reading actual books printed on paper, can you imagine?
glad Shnaghaiist is back available thie new year, 2007. Happy new year all! Been over on our site most of the week, which has been available, thank goodness (shanghaiExpat.com) as nothing else would load thanks to that broken cable...or rather all 6 of them. But REALLY glad your site is again avaialble.
Now 10th of January in Beijing. Very little is working properly. ADSL connection via CNC. Any out of China website painful. About 75% are dead or so slow that they might as well be. Sites that are accessible are Google and the guardian. Looks like Switch in Europe has routings that allow peers to be reached from China, but Sprint etc and esp Level 3 are all totally up the pipe :-(
pain.
I suspect that this is because the available bandwidth is being reserved for the Nomenklatura..