Re: Chinese websites loading slower recently?

[Javier J <javier () advancedmachines us>]

The great firewall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall






On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 2:18 PM, Olivier Benghozi <
olivier.benghozi () wifirst fr> wrote:

> I can confirm, several customers complaining of being suddenly unable to
> access baidu/weibo and so on
> Same conclusion ensues.
>
> > On 20 oct. 2017 at 23:27, Tianhao Xiao <hxiao () dargasea com> wrote :
> >
> > The National Congress[0] just happened, and the Chinese government does
> > make a very big deal out of it. I know that many universities were asked
> > to temporarily block inbound HTTP traffic, which even affected open
> > source mirrors during that time.
> >
> > With all this going on it is only natural that something restrictive
> > happened to the rest of the international network. I'm not exactly sure
> > what has been done, but it is very likely that it is not your problem.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 20 Oct 2017, at 08:51, Simon Lockhart wrote:
> > > Is anyone else seeing an increase in problems related to Chinese
> > > websites?