Comments on: One more reason to hate China Telecom this Spring Festival

By: Thoughts on China | rice again

Thoughts on China | rice again — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:58:33 +0000

[...] The internet. I keep getting redirected to this every time i look at my blog stats and ads fill my screen intermttently instead of loading innocuous [...]

By: Wesley Tanaka

Wesley Tanaka — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:48:20 +0000

Because of this ad spam, which Yunnan started somewhere in 2006 and because of a more recent trend of automatically blocking heavy usage, and because of the great firewall, I've taken to doing all of my web browsing through SSH.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:12:53 +0000

If you can reach this site it has some good info about bypassing censors, but not sure it will help with the ads…

http://www.boingboing.net/censorroute.html

I use China telecom, but also use an AT&T network to logon to my work computers, and noticed that helps with the ads a little.

A good ad blocker would be helpful, but I have not found one I like yet.

By: Jamieson

Jamieson — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:10:15 +0000

Oh, forgot to mention. 3 degrees here in Suzhou, snow up to my throat. Forget riding the bike in the bike lane. Sorry to be so annoying
but I have 20 packets X 6 sachets of pea and ham soup instant mixes coming. I am salivating.

By: Jamieson

Jamieson — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 08:54:44 +0000

I am so angry, an angry white man.

Cannot get to hotmail, or http://www.abc.net.au/news/justin
(naturally my favourite sites)

China’s Net Granny says CNN is just fine, google comes in at 0.8
seconds. That is amazing, from China to the States and back again. However, to view the Australian Broadcasting Commission website I have to back door it.

I miss my streaming audio, which is first class from their site.

Feel like taking out the intruder bashing stick from the bedside and whacking some c**t at China Telecom.

This is unacceptable, but sigh….arbitrary web site denial is part and parcel here.

Oh, to be in the land of the free, with their first amendment rights. In Australia, anything goes, apart from kiddie p**n.

That will get you 20 years in the Clink.

Meanwhile, I am doing the radar on any teaching gigs here in Suzhou.

Yeah, been getting those annoying pop-up ads too.

Hope you and Maggie are keeping warm. Yuki and I have been snuggling under the quilt with the electric blankets on. Got to catch up with you two soon.

Happy New Year *BANG*

Jamieson

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:25:44 +0000

@Steven: Yup, I get the same results. And I don't think it's limited to Jiangsu, as Rick's post on LLW seems to show he's having troubles up in Dalian too.

By: Another Laowai

Another Laowai — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:53:53 +0000

Steven: The last time the ad’s started appearing every few pages is just before Facebook and Hotmail were inaccessible to me for about a week.

By: Steven

Steven — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 07:49:51 +0000

here’s another reason to hate them: retarded, flaky, half-arsed broadband…

i’ve not been able to access facebook for 2 days now. it’s not blocked (so it’s nothing to do with Net Nanny), it’s just that a lot of overseas-served websites r inaccessible now.

what’s inaccessible exactly? so far, i cannot get into: facebook, hotmail, autoblog, engadget, NY times, and a few others. what on earth is going in?

is this perhaps related to the internet cables being cut in the middle-east? but, i’ve asked skype contacts in northern & southern china, and they can all access those sites which i can’t get here from Jiangsu-area China Telecom.

any-one else in Suzhou/Jiangsu also suffering from this? Ryan…?

By: Byron

Byron — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:36:00 +0000

Okay … just got my first ad, and it confused the hell out of me … until I remembered this post.

Ryan – would you be interested in doing some sort of speed test and comparing results?

By: Woaizhongguo

Woaizhongguo — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:15:15 +0000

Wow. I am using Shanghai Telecom and so far nothing like that, fingers and toes crossed. So there’s really no way to turn the ads off, perhaps even pay them more? I’d certainly investigate the possible existence of alternative providers, even if it’s probably gonna prove fruitless.

Oh well, xin nian kuai le!