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Q: Anyone notice the internet slowing down lately ?

I suspect connexions to servers out of China have been downgraded lately : it is now impossible to maintain a stable connexion of any form to a remote server outside of the country. It will work and then suddenly stop for a few seconds/minutes intermittenty, causing you to disconnect from any server you may be connected to (online game, VPN, dowloads, etc...).

It's happening to me with different ISPs at different places, so I can't be the only one?

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It might be location-dependent.

Where I live & work (Suzhou), the problem you mention is permanent. Any access of to servers out of the country is noticeably slower to access to in-country servers.  Same pattern, works fine for 1 minute, no data for 1 minute, and so on, with a fairly random pattern. It gets worse in the evening, making the whole experience a pain. In early hours (5am, 6am), it's much better, good time to downloads system updates for instance.

In Ganxu and Xingjiang, the connection was just smooth, fast, no problems. More curiously, same speed in my wife hometown (Jiangsu too, but small village lost in countryside mixed up with chemical plants).

My explanation => where I live, tons of Internet user. Other areas I mention, over dimensioned bandwidth, compared to the number of users.

TMaster:

What I mention does not look like not a bandwidth limitation, but rather a complete obstruction of data with a pattern 30 seconds off every 2 or 3 minutes

 

Enough to let you surf but also enough to get you logged out of anything. I imagine that's the purpose.

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I don't know how the Internet tubes handle traffic overload ^^ And yes, Chinese websites are just fine. Only servers outside. A theory : any traffic with the outside is filtered and scanned. The more people access to outside, the more to filter. When filtering hardware is too slow to handle things in real-time, it makes that "data stuttering" thing. In more rural places, maybe less people access outside, so (local ?) filtering hardware is doing ok. Not sure we will ever know >_<

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yep have the same problem now... in shanghai is a bit better but in tianjin is really terrible...

funny thing is (dunno if its my pc) but i cant access any website for like 10 minutes after i connect to the internet except chinese websites...

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down south, my China Telecom line is humming nicely along at about 16Mbit as usual. 

 

but there are sometimes where it grinds to a halt, just not right now. when I am at my mother in laws I feel it more often, like e.g. lunch break = slow internet. 

Nessquick:

my china telecom was doing great, but my wife wanna save a cost, so changed to china unicom with one year prepayment. and speed decreasing :(

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TMaster, who knows ... maybe you attracted some unwanted attention and are not quite as alone as you think that you might be ...

 

 

TMaster:

No way, got enough people in my head without inviting some more in my internets

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Yeah lately in Chengdu, very bad. Has been fine today though. Hope it remains as I was pretty frustrated and gave up a few times.

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There surely is a internet 'rush hour' from like 7pm to 10pm where my internet is snail speed.  It is the worst time of the day to browse or download.  However like someone mentioned downloading at random hours is sweet, I leave my computer open over night and it downloads like 10 movies in bittorrent

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Over the past couple of weeks I've found that it's actually quicker for me to access any site through my VPN than it is using the basic connection.  This includes any Chinese-based websites.  Like most things here, I expect it to change again soon.

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Last weekend I also experienced very slow internet. Now it is fine, so maybe it was only because too many people had time to shopping online.^^

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yeah, me too. whats coming up again ? maybe pollution filled the optical fibres ?

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Yes indeed, often quite slow.! Also noticed more 'this page cannot be displayed' notices.

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Yea it has been much slower in Beijing. Can't use skype anymore. 

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f@@@@@@@k the internet today, some pages even take minutes to load !@!!!!

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I am in Dalian and if you are using China Unicom the speed sucks. I am supposedly getting 100 Mbytes per seconfd, but if I am it is the slowest I have ever seen. My wife and I have made many complaints but it doesn't seem to help longterm.

It is just as slow at work and I do a lot of searching for information overseas. Also if the word "blog" is in the beginning of a web address the server resets immediately. I have noticed that it is slow even for sites within China.

I have also done many spped tests and my connection never comes close to 10 Mb/s. I consider myself lucky to be connected at all.

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