On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 3:23 PM Jakob Heitz (jheitz) via NANOG < nanog@nanog.org> wrote:
> I can corroborate that. I visited China in August 2019 and had terrible > internet performance to sites outside of China. This was both with mobile > and wifi at the homes of two friends, one in Heilongjiang and the other in > Beijing. When I visited in February 2015, it was much better. Both times, I > was using VNC on the company VPN. This does not use much bandwidth, but is > quite latency sensitive. > > GFW has some different settings that they use, similar to "ThreatCon"... if civil unrest is happening, its working is changed. During party conventions, they change it too. So when a foreign visits China, that experience might be different from one visiting during a different time period. Also, some hotels that only accept international guests backhaul traffic thru Hong Kong, providing an experience that looks much closer to US/Europe broadband. Rubens
