Internet Restoration with Flickr Hiccups
Day two of the Internet restoration in China, and connections remain very fast. Seems most everyone in the PRC is getting good speeds to sites outside the country.
Just two weeks ago, roundtrip times to Google.com and other California-based ISPs were around 600 milliseconds with significant packet loss. A test yesterday showed that those times are now much lower, at around 250 milliseconds. Downloads of podcasts audio files have been very fast. Where last week some podcasts would not even start downloading, today 25 Mbyte audio files were downloaded in about 10-15 minutes.
There is, however, some weirdness with some sites. Flickr.com now fails to load correctly, with some of the visual Web 2.0 components breaking. Seems that Flickr images being supplied from “yimg.com” are not making it through.
UPDATE: Flickr.com seems to have started working OK again on Tuesday.
