Comments on: Living with a Crippled Internet http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2006/12/27/living-with-a-crippled-internet/ New Media researcher Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:36:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Yu-Chun WIllis http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2006/12/27/living-with-a-crippled-internet/#comment-8761 Fri, 05 Jan 2007 11:59:40 +0000 http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2006/12/27/living-with-a-crippled-internet/#comment-8761 MY Internet speed has been really poor... Whenever I tried to watch videos on Youtube, the downloading keeps on stopping halfway. It's a pain to surf the net around these days. MY Internet speed has been really poor… Whenever I tried to watch videos on Youtube, the downloading keeps on stopping halfway. It’s a pain to surf the net around these days.

]]> by: Anita http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2006/12/27/living-with-a-crippled-internet/#comment-8626 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 03:37:16 +0000 http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2006/12/27/living-with-a-crippled-internet/#comment-8626 Glad that everything is back to normal. I can't even imagine how bad it must have been if the earthquake had been real large. Glad that everything is back to normal. I can’t even imagine how bad it must have been if the earthquake had been real large.

]]> by: Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Hong Kong and China: Days without internet and the world is not flat http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2006/12/27/living-with-a-crippled-internet/#comment-8509 Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:23:55 +0000 http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2006/12/27/living-with-a-crippled-internet/#comment-8509 [...] Because of the earthquake in southern sea of Taiwan on 26 of December, 2006, two major internet cables in the Pacific Ocean have been broken (details see Andrew Lih). Hong Kong is a major affected areas and many bloggers and internet users are forced to live through a few days without internet at year end. [...] […] Because of the earthquake in southern sea of Taiwan on 26 of December, 2006, two major internet cables in the Pacific Ocean have been broken (details see Andrew Lih). Hong Kong is a major affected areas and many bloggers and internet users are forced to live through a few days without internet at year end. […]

]]> by: andrew http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2006/12/27/living-with-a-crippled-internet/#comment-8289 Sat, 30 Dec 2006 03:27:33 +0000 http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2006/12/27/living-with-a-crippled-internet/#comment-8289 Today, services are pretty much all back to normal that I can tell. This includes Gmail. Some traceroute checks show many links going via Europe to the US. Will post some results later. Today, services are pretty much all back to normal that I can tell. This includes Gmail. Some traceroute checks show many links going via Europe to the US. Will post some results later.

]]> by: Kevin S. http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2006/12/27/living-with-a-crippled-internet/#comment-8286 Sat, 30 Dec 2006 02:06:28 +0000 http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2006/12/27/living-with-a-crippled-internet/#comment-8286 I've had similar problems accessing Gmail. However, I have found that using Tor often provides access to Gmail. I’ve had similar problems accessing Gmail. However, I have found that using Tor often provides access to Gmail.

]]> by: …My heart’s in Accra » The Taiwan earthquake, and a reminder about network fragility http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2006/12/27/living-with-a-crippled-internet/#comment-8264 Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:10:02 +0000 http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2006/12/27/living-with-a-crippled-internet/#comment-8264 [...] 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: Yam Ki Chan http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2006/12/27/living-with-a-crippled-internet/#comment-8225 Fri, 29 Dec 2006 01:40:26 +0000 http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2006/12/27/living-with-a-crippled-internet/#comment-8225 google and gmail has been fine in beijing. I am guessing that google has a mirror here in Beijing. People have been having access to MSN though. Internet is back up here. access to non-Asia sites is a little slow still, but tolerable. google and gmail has been fine in beijing. I am guessing that google has a mirror here in Beijing. People have been having access to MSN though.

Internet is back up here. access to non-Asia sites is a little slow still, but tolerable.

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