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Q: gmail: is it down, or what ??
I have not been able to access gmail the past few days... Anyone else having this trouble ? I hate to have to pay for a VPN...
11 years 50 weeks ago in Web & Technology - China
Working fine. It's sometimes slow, but it's not refusing to work.
open a new 126.com email.... open your gmail settings and set autoforwarding all emails to the new 126 email id.... setup 126 email in iphone/ipad/outlook.... very fast...
gregoryneal1:
Cool, I'll do that... I'll post back with results. Xiexie
I can only access Yahoo mail in USA in the mornings early, The rest of the time I can not. Sometimes I do access Google, and type Yahoo Mail, and then click on Yahoo Mail sign in and that works when direct sign in does not. Maybe you could try the same with gmail.
LAR:
HiHappyExpat,
I've been having the same problem with Yahoo.com. It's been very hard for me to access my e-mail the last few days! :( VERY frustrating!! :( Only at certain times can I read my e-mail. :( I never had this problem with Yahoo.com before. * "G-mail is on a hit list." * What does that mean? * Why?
* That must explain why lately I haven't been able to read the gmail that's been sent to me by a Chinese gal that I know. :( Bollacks!
Has been working fine for me and have received and sent emails on each of the last 3 days.
darn, I am sooo far from being a computer expert... but sometimes I think it may be my computer....
but I don't think I made any changes to this system lately..
I cannot access on my MacBook Pro or on my iPad2. I live in Shenzhen.
any ideas guys ?
seems to pen everything else. I am not using a VPN.
woody:
If they are not working well I suggest that you have enough apple product at your disposal to trade for two girlfriends.
It may just be that the internet source you are using blocks or slows down certain things beyond the GFW.
It was actually down for two days in some parts of China. Two days ago, Google changed its search engine functions to include a warning that some search terms might lead you to blocked websites in China. My guess is that the gov. didn't like that very much.
http://tech.pnosker.com/2012/06/01/google-to-alert-users-of-censorship-i...
wow, this morning it is up and running without a hitch! cwazy wabbit 
It's slow but it's not down! I had problem with some of the functions on gmail such as gtalk. As far as reading email and sending email out it hasn't been much of a problem for me.
my internet has been so slow lately, don't know why, i connect to some places
If you have Gmail and want consistent (24/7) access to it, then a VPN is a necessity. OTW, access will be sporadic at best. Gmail is on China's hit list.
Gmail had a problem over the last couple of days that knocked out service for about 4 million accounts. You were probably one of those 4 million. The problem was fixed within 24 hours.
If you are using the chrome web browser, that could be the problem. I was using chrome when I first came to China. Google has some special chrome-gmail integration that is broken here in China. Gmail works fine for me under firefox. The only problem is sometimes I can't download attachments.
Chinese gov't hates chrome for some reason. Probably because of chrome gathering data for google.
Yes Gregory, I haven't been able to access gmail,etc. lately either. :(
