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    American websites slow overseas

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by me12345, Jul 1, 2009.

  1. me12345

    me12345 Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi,

    Recently I left the country (was in America, now in China) and I'm now finding that many English websites have slowed to a crawl, while Chinese websites still load quite fast. Is there a way to fix this, or is it simply unavoidable?

    Thanks for the help!
     
    me12345, Jul 1, 2009
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  2. gerryf19

    gerryf19 I am the walrus

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    You are likely passing through the Chinese proxy server system designed to limit access to sites not deemed acceptable by the Chinese government.
     
    gerryf19, Jul 1, 2009
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  3. Shyster1

    Shyster1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Easiest way to fix it is to step outside the Chinese e-Curtain (the 2.0 version of Churchhill's famous Iron Curtain :D). Other than that, try to minimize the lag in any other leg of the connection you have some control over, such as paying for the highest bandwidth connection you can (although that is by no means a sure-fire solution - if the Chinese censorship proxies are the bottleneck right now, then buying more bandwidth on either side of the bottleneck won't do you much good).
     
    Shyster1, Jul 1, 2009
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    peli_kan Notebook Evangelist

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    That "Green Dam" must be some brutal twisted s***. Good luck surviving with it...
     
    peli_kan, Jul 2, 2009
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  5. lixuelai

    lixuelai Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    Use a proxy server. I VPN tunnel into my school's network when I am in China. The Onion Router might work as well.
     
    lixuelai, Jul 2, 2009
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