I don't think they're being blocked, I think it has more to do with the underground cables that were damaged in the typhoon.

It has severely slowed down connections between mainland China and websites in the rest of the world.

yeah,several local website can't be accessed from yesterday.

Beijing. East North 3rd Ring Rd.

Yeah, posted the same thing in the msn thread.

Can't get onto www.last.fm which is a disaster. Can access some foreign sites without VPN but they're slow as hell. It took me 5 hours to download an album from iTunes on saturday night. usually takes 5 minutes. No msn. Nada. It's also slow with F***g*t*.

I live near admin. In fact I occasionally follow him, taking pictures. I'm doing a mural on my bedroom wall. It's quite spectacular. Now I have a face for the papier mache Admin doll that I sleep with, instead of the one that I drew on.

I hadn't noticed, but now I know you might be in there, I'll be lurking in the shadows, camera at the ready.

Update: Everything is now screwed even through free gate. What the hell is wrong?

What IS strange is that you can access everything through FG, except this site. Why is that?

I'm up by the NW side (4th ring road) and MSN and hotmail are inaccessible. Google and thebeiinger.com came up real fast. Maybe try the local wireless place later.... Yesterday was weird, too.

Reporting from cool Haidian.

Yep, many sites can't be accessed.

As far as news sites go, nytimes is meiyou. latimes no problemo. washingtonpost also accessible. As are many of the pommy sites.

Yesterday yahoo no prob, today meiyou. Google fine. Local sites mei wenti.

Don't think it's the typhoon. Can access all sites through proxy but slow. But what do I know, I can barely type on a keyboard. What does that the Alt button do?

Over and out.

So why are some people experiencing problems while others aren't?

My computer is really slow today and I cannot get facebook through the usual proxy I use.

I'll bet God chooses who gets good Internet. Admin and I are smited because of our mutual love of harcore, barely legal pornography.

Yet pure aier2 and Huanchu, with their hippy lifestyles, are free to surf where they please.

Unfair!

Shanghai Daily is reporting quake-related internet problems in Shanghai:

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2009/200908/20090818/article_411...

How convenient!

I wouldn't think they'd be in such a hurry to get it sorted. This is probably how the Chinese government would prefer it.

If it weren't for the pesky foreign media meddling in China's affairs, it would take forever.

Which means I can come here more often. Lucky you.

At my friend's place on ChangAn Street near SciTech and I also can't get to a lot of foreign sites, even when I am proxying through a server of mine in the US. So the cut/damaged cable seems plausible. Using a China Netcom...er...China Unicom DSL link. Meh.

Depends if you are on a CNC/UNICOM link or a China Telecom link. Those two major backbone ISP's in China don't peer and CT owns the international links - all 6 of them. So guess whos packets are getting priority?

Also if you are on a DSL connection expect to get less access than those people who are paying their real 4-6K a month for a business DDN link.

So while my home sucks - the office doesn't completely suck.