Shanghaiist: Is Shanghai's internet broken?

Patrick

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:11:12 +0800

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..

yu888

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 11:31:12 +0800

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.

Leprecoon

Sun, 31 Dec 2006 10:34:34 +0800

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?

LE

Sun, 31 Dec 2006 06:26:35 +0800

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.

JIAN

Sat, 30 Dec 2006 09:35:24 +0800

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

hdp

Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:44:30 +0800

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 :)

JOHN

Thu, 28 Dec 2006 21:53:57 +0800

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...

the Admiral

Thu, 28 Dec 2006 16:44:27 +0800

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.....

y

Thu, 28 Dec 2006 13:13:45 +0800

btw, from Australia

y

Thu, 28 Dec 2006 13:12:34 +0800

at least now i know the cause, i thought it was due to my computer that i can't access websites in China.

Kevin

Wed, 27 Dec 2006 21:02:55 +0800

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.

Kevin

Wed, 27 Dec 2006 20:59:11 +0800

Unable to access any sites in China (or extremely slow, then broken) for hours by now, It's 5am San Francisco time.

AL

Wed, 27 Dec 2006 14:02:11 +0800

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.

kake

Wed, 27 Dec 2006 14:00:10 +0800

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!

K

Wed, 27 Dec 2006 13:45:38 +0800

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.

LE

Wed, 27 Dec 2006 12:22:43 +0800

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.