Comments on: China: Ping…ping…pfft http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/27/china-pingpingpfft/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:37:12 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » China: Cops and bikers http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/27/china-pingpingpfft/comment-page-1/#comment-543542 Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » China: Cops and bikers Fri, 29 Dec 2006 20:01:56 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/27/china-pingpingpfft/#comment-543542 [...] [Note to viewers outside China: this video may be unviewable (without a proxy server) until the underwater cables damaged in the recent earthquake near Taiwan are repaired.] [...] [...] [Note to viewers outside China: this video may be unviewable (without a proxy server) until the underwater cables damaged in the recent earthquake near Taiwan are repaired.] [...]

]]> By: …My heart’s in Accra » The Taiwan earthquake, and a reminder about network fragility http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/27/china-pingpingpfft/comment-page-1/#comment-543062 …My heart’s in Accra » The Taiwan earthquake, and a reminder about network fragility Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:09:53 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/27/china-pingpingpfft/#comment-543062 [...] Global Voices’ John Kennedy, reporting from Guangzhao, is watching his Chinese blogger friends get a lesson in network georgraphy as they discover which services do and don’t function after the cable break. Andrew Lih is in Singapore, and has the results of his tests on different blogging and email services, as well as other net-dependent services like Skype. He sees the current outages as a wakeup call for infrastructure providers in East Asia: With expanses of water separating countries around the Rim of Fire, the region will need to come up with more innovative and robust backup plans. After the South Asia tsunami, satellite communication was the solid backup for voice communication. But those “pipes” are too small to handle so much high speed Internet traffic. I can imagine ASEAN might be interested in collaborating on a true fault-tolerant infrastructure for the region that can survive catastrophic losses of submarine communication. [...] [...] Global Voices’ John Kennedy, reporting from Guangzhao, is watching his Chinese blogger friends get a lesson in network georgraphy as they discover which services do and don’t function after the cable break. Andrew Lih is in Singapore, and has the results of his tests on different blogging and email services, as well as other net-dependent services like Skype. He sees the current outages as a wakeup call for infrastructure providers in East Asia: With expanses of water separating countries around the Rim of Fire, the region will need to come up with more innovative and robust backup plans. After the South Asia tsunami, satellite communication was the solid backup for voice communication. But those “pipes” are too small to handle so much high speed Internet traffic. I can imagine ASEAN might be interested in collaborating on a true fault-tolerant infrastructure for the region that can survive catastrophic losses of submarine communication. [...]

]]> By: John Kennedy http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/27/china-pingpingpfft/comment-page-1/#comment-541061 John Kennedy Fri, 29 Dec 2006 05:51:17 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/27/china-pingpingpfft/#comment-541061 Hey CLB. Just put up a bit of a latest roundup on my own blog <a href="http://underthebridge.yculblog.com/post.4107631005.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Hey CLB.
Just put up a bit of a latest roundup on my own blog here.

]]> By: China Law Blog http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/27/china-pingpingpfft/comment-page-1/#comment-540318 China Law Blog Fri, 29 Dec 2006 01:32:01 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/27/china-pingpingpfft/#comment-540318 Our Shanghai office is without internet access, but Blackberry went live yesterday morning in Shanghai. What is going on elsewhere in China? Our Shanghai office is without internet access, but Blackberry went live yesterday morning in Shanghai. What is going on elsewhere in China?

]]> By: John Kennedy http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/27/china-pingpingpfft/comment-page-1/#comment-538116 John Kennedy Thu, 28 Dec 2006 12:12:42 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/27/china-pingpingpfft/#comment-538116 It's 8 pm Thursday here now and the internet is exactly as it was yesterday: those few with proxies set up can access overseas websites, those without cannot. MSN and Yahoo! Messengers are still out service. Someone from Singapore just left a message on my own blog saying they got the day off because their internet connections left them confined to Singaporean websites. Pretty much anyone in China whose job requires them to communicate online with people in Hong Kong or beyond is affected. Gmail is still working; I wonder if they've just signed up a few million new users... It’s 8 pm Thursday here now and the internet is exactly as it was yesterday: those few with proxies set up can access overseas websites, those without cannot. MSN and Yahoo! Messengers are still out service.

Someone from Singapore just left a message on my own blog saying they got the day off because their internet connections left them confined to Singaporean websites. Pretty much anyone in China whose job requires them to communicate online with people in Hong Kong or beyond is affected. Gmail is still working; I wonder if they’ve just signed up a few million new users…

]]> By: jordan seidel http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/27/china-pingpingpfft/comment-page-1/#comment-537352 jordan seidel Thu, 28 Dec 2006 06:34:20 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/27/china-pingpingpfft/#comment-537352 This is all very techie and I can appreciate the importance, but does the average Chinese notice? What's the status today? What's the economic impact? This is all very techie and I can appreciate the importance, but does the average Chinese notice? What’s the status today? What’s the economic impact?

]]> By: John Kennedy http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/27/china-pingpingpfft/comment-page-1/#comment-536864 John Kennedy Thu, 28 Dec 2006 02:10:32 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/27/china-pingpingpfft/#comment-536864 The previous comment is from Wang Pei, quoted above, and says: "Starting yesterday afternoon, I've heard some classmates say they couldn't visit mainland sites. I went on MSN and only a few people were on. It's like it were the dark ages, so I quickly went and clicked on the bottom right of the screen and saw it was Wednesday. On the mainland, it's not a public holiday, so I wonder, has the mainland..." The ending presumaby refers to the government's plan to make .cn mirror versions of websites which is making many bloggers nervous and just took a step closer to completion last week. Link to more information in post above, and related analysis <a href="http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2006/02/chinas_new_doma.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. The previous comment is from Wang Pei, quoted above, and says:

“Starting yesterday afternoon, I’ve heard some classmates say they couldn’t visit mainland sites. I went on MSN and only a few people were on. It’s like it were the dark ages, so I quickly went and clicked on the bottom right of the screen and saw it was Wednesday. On the mainland, it’s not a public holiday, so I wonder, has the mainland…”

The ending presumaby refers to the government’s plan to make .cn mirror versions of websites which is making many bloggers nervous and just took a step closer to completion last week. Link to more information in post above, and related analysis here.

]]> By: Becky http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/27/china-pingpingpfft/comment-page-1/#comment-536836 Becky Thu, 28 Dec 2006 02:01:14 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/27/china-pingpingpfft/#comment-536836 according to sohu, there are 16 underwater internet cables snapped. according to sohu, there are 16 underwater internet cables snapped.

]]> By: 白板报 http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/27/china-pingpingpfft/comment-page-1/#comment-535344 白板报 Wed, 27 Dec 2006 14:29:09 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/27/china-pingpingpfft/#comment-535344 <strong>互联网比你我想象得更脆弱...</strong> 从昨天下午开始，我听到同学们说，国内网站无法访问。上了MSN，寥寥不过几人。日子过得昏天黑地，急忙点了电脑右下脚，发现是礼拜三，国内不是公共节假日。于是，我怀疑是不是国内的... 互联网比你我想象得更脆弱…

从昨天下午开始，我听到同学们说，国内网站无法访问。上了MSN，寥寥不过几人。日子过得昏天黑地，急忙点了电脑右下脚，发现是礼拜三，国内不是公共节假日。于是，我怀疑是不是国内的…

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