China Lays More Fiber, Improving Physical Connection To the Worldwide Internet 44
jfruh writes China's state-owned Internet service providers are improving the nation's connection to the worldwide Internet, adding seven new access points to the world's Internet backbone to improve speed and reliability for Chinese customers. This reveals the nation's essential Internet contradiction, improving its physical connection even as the government continues to block a number of important Intenet sites.
It's actually not a contradiction. (Score:2)
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I was worried about it, but I talked to China and they told me that their penises were so small, and assured me that my American penis was VERY large in comparison. This went on for a while and pretty soon I realized that they weren't any kind of threat after all.
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China has the largest population of internet users. Despite apparent continued attempts to censor what their citizens have access to, the Chinese are very interested in extending international market share of their three state-owned internet companies.
I read it as "China is enhancing the speed at which they can control the internet within their borders."
Avenue Q on line three... (Score:2)
China Lays More Cable , Improving Physical Connection To the Worldwide Internet
there, FTFY...
BOW-CHIKA-WOW-WOW
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I wonder if they get Slashdot in China?
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Slashdot loads okay, but for some reason I often have issues with the rss subdomain working without a VPN.
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My solution would be to let go of the dogma's, they could explain why it's better to be moral. And give local government more political power so they need less oppression.
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My solution would be to let go of the dogma's, they could explain why it's better to be moral. And give local government more political power so they need less oppression.
I think what you mean is, educate the people to understand and accept democracy; this is obviously a good idea, but not easily achieved. It isn't as simple as just understanding that you can vote for things; people have to learn to trust each other and the system, otherwise the losing side is not going to accept the result and it will end in chaos. On top of that, there will be powerful interests against its success - rich business owners and corrupt, local officials.
Which is why it is not a good idea to gi
Perhaps they want to sell hosting services (Score:2)
Not just provide better access for domestic users.
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new chinese saying (Score:5, Funny)
Confucius says:
"Sparkling light carries filtered wisdom. A house with no doors enters no one."
China Lays More Cable (Score:1)
For all the sh*t coming out of China, the article should be labeled, "China Lays More Cable"
Slashdot Formatting Broken? (Score:1)
What's with the new look? (Score:2)
Communism can work (Score:2)
Sure China is a way too communistic and controlling for my taste, but the stupendous US dogma where capitalism and religion are supposed to magically fix everything is no better.
Funny how China has better internet than the US.
And yet, still not enough bandwidth for Google (Score:2)
Still not enough bandwidth for Youtube or Google.
Perhaps no so much for China to connect to the ROW (Score:2)
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China as a global interconnect? (Score:1)
While this is purely speculation, could China be aiming to offer itself as a global (or even regional) interconnect? Or is the the ability to play NSA-like games on international traffic within home-borders just not a realistic possibility anymore?
I'm thinking of how a "Chinese" error (in Germany) caused traffic between two Russian cities to be directed out-of-country (see http://research.dyn.com/2014/1... [dyn.com] ).
I can take the tin-foil hat off anytime I want to, but I really do like the propeller beanie.
It is getting worse, not better (Score:5, Interesting)
I'm in Guangzhou and can tell you it is worse than ever. Since last June, the connection between China and the rest of the world has become progressively worse and worse, almost to the point of being unusable today. I think something must be lost in translation. They didn't increase the bandwidth, it seems like they increased the amount of bandwidth they can filter. Everyone I know in the export business is having major internet problems now. The inability to do email, exchange files, collaborate, and protect our data is killing business. We and many others are seriously considering if it is worth it to continue to tolerate these small minded Chinese communists. The cost for us to make our products in several other Asian countries is already comparable to China now. The exodus has already begun.
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Yeah they work great. Oh wait, they don't... The great firewall now has active VPN detection. PPTP is completely blocked. OpenVPN and LT2P are automatically detected and throttled, with continuous connection resets. If you use the same VPN server too much, it gets perma-blocked. The only good thing I can say is this is motivating creative nerds to develop new technology that is very difficult or impossible to block. There are a number of new distributed proxy-like applications already in beta. If we
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I understand the problem with TCP but how do they reset an OpenVPN tunnel over UDP?
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Your full of it. We have an office in Shenzhen we have had HK based VPS servers VPN tunnels, the speed up doesn't happen if you need speed for a webserver in the chinese market it has to be in china and that means ICP license and all the bull that goes with it.
We try and sync data between offices, our Shenzhen office is just abysmal even though we are paying thousands for a fibre connection as soon as you try and go somewhere outside of china it crawls. We wrap VPN's within SSL tunnels in an effort to kee
This has nothing to do with their population. (Score:5, Interesting)
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You listed Canada twice, eh?
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I'm not your friend, guy.
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Doubt it. NK has barely any internet presence - you can probably count the number of hosts based on NK. All the DDoS meant was well, the Glorious Leader missed out on cat videos for the day essentially.
And NK do
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Exactly. Only China internal networks gets the speed boost.
Fiber? (Score:3)
Complete waste of time (Score:2)
Consider this the MIRV of cyber-warfare. (Score:2)
It would be hard to be taken seriously as a cyber superpower if one strike could sever your connection to the internet. This is just redundancy.