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Xiao Kui

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All's normal for me here in Beijing this morning. If you're having trouble getting to Gmail, try switching between httpS:// and http://, I can see people saying that works, and have had to do the same myself in the past when one wasn't working for some reason.

We may actually end up ahead if we get a spike of people searching for 'gmail blocked in China'. None so far though . . .

See attached. Although that's not going to make much of a dent in the overall numbers, and a lot of them are actually getting taken to an old topic.

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I'm not sure this is a block - maybe network issues, maybe a warning shot. My money is on everything working tomorrow morning

Guardian also has it described as a warning shot. Nothing from Google saying it was a technical issue. See this for some recent background.

Interesting. Credit to Google for not falling into line, but business is business . . .

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I was working on Google from around 7 pm till midnight last night and had no problems. I also used Gmail between 9:30 and 11pm.

This morning it was still fine. Perhaps they forgot to tell Guangxi to turn it off! :conf

A friend in Guangdong, Foshan tells me Gmail and Google.com are still out at noon today.

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Gmail access in mainland China has been unstable in the last week. Often I've had to use a proxy to send emails out. Apparently, lots of people are experiencing the same issue. See these discussions on Douban and Baidu below.

http://www.douban.com/group/topic/17964126/

gmail这几天不稳定,google这几天都打不开

http://tieba.baidu.com/f?kz=1016250791

北京,现在是不是打不开Gmail啊

http://tieba.baidu.com/f?kz=1016454055

据达人分析,Gmail被分时段HX

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It's not just Gmail. The whole internet has been slow and wobbly for days.

It happens every time that bunch of pensioners hold their annual reunion in Beijing.

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They're probably deliberately trying to make using Gmail and Google awkward so as to encourage people to move over to other service providers. That way, there will be less of a backlash when they finally pull the plug.

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I suppose they're also disrupting service at night. You see there's a dip every night.

Or maybe people just don't use the net as much during the night and at the weekend...?

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I noticed too. I thought perhaps it was the thing where foreign websites are slower, so I tried going through google.com.hk and that helped. Perhaps I got the problem wrong and it's a two meeting thing, but the solution worked :-)

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