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I've been living in Shanghai China for the last 4 years. When I was in Vietnam, I heard that China internet is pretty bad and strictly controlled. But hey, I am from Vietnam, also a communist country, how bad can China be?
Well, I was totally throw off, even at the time in Vietnam I was only using a 4MB ADSL, the net speed in Shanghai is so god damn slow even compare to Vietnam, but you can still surfing the web at least. Then I slowly found out that, I can't view Youtube, and some others sites, esp live stream site like justin or us.tv which I have no problem accessing those back home in Vietnam. It was very dissapointed T_T
For a SC gamers, if you can't view live stream you are missing out lots and lots of action. After a year or so when I can use my chinese to asking around, I was told that I need to use a VPN to fake my IP so I can access to many banned sites. And thank god, thats what keep me in touch with the world for the last 3 years.
Today, magically, I was viewing some TL thread with Youtube embemed in them and I can see the video, normally it was just a blank space where the youtube video supposed to be. At first I though, I was using my VPN, but no, after checking several times, I am sure that I just use my normal 2MB ADSL w/o any IP faking of any kind.
Wow, I am happy rightnow not that because I can access Youtube, but rather the fact that Chinese goverment may begin to open up their internet a little bit. Only time will tell though, foreign sites have been banned , unbanned then banned again manyy time in the past. I hope that this one will last for a long while, and others banned sites will be unbanned too.
Now, onto my SC2 China server adventure :D
EDIT: Sorry for the fail information here. I have 2 internet access from my dorm. One is China Telecom ADSL
The 2nd one is Chinese educational net service(which is use by every university in China). Well, Youtube is just unblocked on the Edu Net service.
It seems that it still blocks by China main ISP though.
If you are an exchange students in China, you are in luck here :D.
  
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WHAT?!
I'm going to Shanghai in three days. Going to be there until August.
THIS IS GREAT NEWS.
EDIT: Still gonna have to use my school VPN for facebook though <_<
EDIT2: Technically Xi'an in three days. Spending a week there to see my family, then off to Shanghai to work! :D
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I'm going to Shanghai in the summer too. This is great, now I don't need to download a hell bunch of music videos.
What other sites are blocked in China? More specifically, is the University of Toronto site blocked there? I sort of need to access it during the summer.
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youtube's still blocked, sometimes it works for like 1 minute every few days... but im in sh and its still not working for me (unless i use vpn)...
think the poster spoke too soon 
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On May 11 2011 15:59 Empyrean wrote:
WHAT?!
I'm going to Shanghai in three days. Going to be there until August.
THIS IS GREAT NEWS.
EDIT: Still gonna have to use my school VPN for facebook though <_<
EDIT2: Technically Xi'an in three days. Spending a week there to see my family, then off to Shanghai to work! :D
Xi'an is awesome  . Wish my family lived there so I'd have an excuse to go more often.
On May 11 2011 16:13 The_LiNk wrote:
I'm going to Shanghai in the summer too. This is great, now I don't need to download a hell bunch of music videos.
What other sites are blocked in China? More specifically, is the University of Toronto site blocked there? I sort of need to access it during the summer.
Facebook and YouTube are the main ones that I can remember. Other than that, expect some news sites or blogs or whatever to be blocked at random. University sites are fine (at least mine was).
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Sigh. Looks like everything's going to have to go through my school's VPN then <_<
As for blocked sites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_the_People's_Republic_of_China
Some standouts include
NYT website, ustream, wired.com, Facebook, Youtube, tumblr, twitter, flickr, EVERYTHING BLOGSPOT, isohunt, and wikipedia.
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@Koalla, I still able to access Youtube right now. I used my VPN to test as well. When using VPN I was able to access Youtube and Facebook. When I turned VPN off, Facebook is gone, but I can access Youtube fine. We will have to wait and see then.
@Empyrean: Wikipedia is not banned, it was banned before but they unbanned it for more than a year now. But yeah, all of others website that you listed are banned, lol.
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On May 11 2011 16:27 Empyrean wrote:Sigh. Looks like everything's going to have to go through my school's VPN then <_< As for blocked sites: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_the_People's_Republic_of_ChinaSome standouts include NYT website, ustream, wired.com, Facebook, Youtube, tumblr, twitter, flickr, EVERYTHING BLOGSPOT, isohunt, and wikipedia.
Holy crap
And i thought Vietnam's was soooo bad with only Facebook blocked....
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I don't know what you guys are smoking but I'm currently in Shanghai and using ISP China telecom and youtube isn't working for me. Even aolnews.com is blocked in china its insane and really boring when you come from becoming a US sc2 stream addict but if you really care you should just shell out the money for the vpn, i don't trust the freevpn services because they require you to install some software which i dont trust.
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At least TL isn't blocked!
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Sorry for a somewhat fail information. Please refer to the edited OP.
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When I was in China, my friend recommended that I use UltraSurf. It works like magic. I got to use facebook, twitter, and any other site that I wanted to get on. I was quite surprised that not many people know about this.
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I don't know what UltraSurf is but there are lots of commonly known solutions around the Great Firewall, the point of the OP was that something actually got unbanned, not that it was difficult to access before .
Also yeah I totally forgot about Ustream being blocked. That sucked big time.
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On May 11 2011 16:27 Empyrean wrote:Sigh. Looks like everything's going to have to go through my school's VPN then <_< As for blocked sites: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_the_People's_Republic_of_ChinaSome standouts include NYT website, ustream, wired.com, Facebook, Youtube, tumblr, twitter, flickr, EVERYTHING BLOGSPOT, isohunt, and wikipedia.
Facebook, Youtube, all blogspots, twitter are the big ones. Isohunt also seems to be blocked.
Tumblr seems OK, and there is limited access to Wikipedia (used to be blocked, but not anymore) and Google features like Gmail, Images, Google Docs, Google Calendar, etc. Only certain pages on wikipedia are blocked but if you try to load one of them, then the entire site will get temporarily blocked. Same thing for Google Images.
Some image hosting sites like imageshack or imagevenue are blocked. Mediafire used to be blocked, but it isn't anymore.
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lol "only" using 4mb ADSL good one, i had a chuckle.
I'm using 512k ADSL in Australia
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I hope that China will open up the internet limitations in the future. When I was in China( Wuxi, Shanghai and Beijing) 3 years ago a lot of common websites I use at home were blocked. That made me sad The speed was quite okay, though.
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be there end of the year, will check it out
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Not like it actually matters, Chinese blocking is worse than most middle schools in the United States.
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I found the speed to be pretty good especially within China...but then again...I'm live in Australia..
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i just tried. still doesn't work. im in shanghai
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I live in beijing and our internet sucks major dick. i use the vpn Astrill to unblock stuff but sometimes the connection (isp, not astrill) is so slow that youtube may as well be blocked.
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Ugh. Logged onto my school VPN, but the connection seems to be throttled. I disconnected from it and now it works fine ._.
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On May 11 2011 21:34 Count9 wrote:
Not like it actually matters, Chinese blocking is worse than most middle schools in the United States.
Aw man you summed it up so nicely :D
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