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Finally I got the time and motivation to follow up on a post earlier called China Internet Speed too Slow or Just DSL Slow? . Thanks to Alex, a visitor who left a question on that post. You will find in this articles:
- Why is it slow?
- How to make it faster?
Update: I got a better solution: VPN Solution (click to read more).
Why is it slow?
Why broadband in China too slow? The reason… bottleneck at the trunk line to International Websites, especially to America. I found my own IP is located in Bejing while I’m staying in ZhongShan, which is thousands of km away from Bejing. Far enough to say… “too far”.
I have been wondering this in mind “Why is it so slow” when surfing international websites in Vietnam and China. I had an Australia proxy, which generally give me full speed access to those sites, but with no proxy, the connection is terrible.
Then one day, while searching for “Australian Proxy”, I stumbled upon this page:Australia Proxy for those having connection problems by Reaper-X. From that page, I realized why the Internet speed is so slow when connecting to most international web sites.
The recent connection problem in Asia region is caused by recent earthquake in Taiwan, as Reaper-X pointed out. As much as I know, the earthquakes also destroyed many undersea fiber optic cables in Vietnam, causing a bottleneck for the Internet traffic going in from and out to Website hosted outside the country.
A visitor, Alex raised the issue up again, and this time his connection is ADSL. So basically, what I learn is that not only DSL is too slow, but also ADSL is too slow. In this case, Alex has a 3MB ADSL plan and he is complaining about the speed.
I’ve been complaining about this too much, and now I have to accept the only one solution to it. Why? Even the 3MB ADSL have the same problem, what can my little 512Kb DSL do? Unfortunate enough, The 4MB plan I mentioned earlier isn’t available in my area.
How to make it faster?
The only fix available for me now is to use Australian proxies.
I’ve been using one Australian proxy 165.228.131.12:80. If you don’t know what it mean then here is the breakdown:
- IP address: 165.228.131.12
- Port number: 80
The proxies that work
For as long as I can remember, that was the only proxy that worked for me. I’ve tested too many and none of them worked. Until recently after reading Reaper-X article, I found 3 more proxies which do work:
- 165.228.128.10:3128
- 165.228.130.10:3128
- 165.228.132.10:3128
Testing the proxies
I test those proxies against Lorelle’s “Taiwan Earthquake Disrupts Internet Access” and here are the results:
| Test | Proxy Used | Status | Load time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No proxy | Time out | 126.110s |
| 2 | 165.228.128.10:3128 | Worked | 166.203s |
| 3 | 165.228.130.10:3128 | Worked | 29.266s |
| 4 | 165.228.132.10:3128 | Worked | 19.453s |
| 5 | 165.228.131.12:80 | Worked | 48.470s |
| 6 | 165.228.128.10:3128 | Worked | 47.172s |
Winner of the test: proxy 165.228.132.10:3128
Interesting facts
- In fact, without using proxies I can only open Google.com.
- With proxies, Google.com will block my IP and ask for entering confirmation code.
- Google come up slower when proxy is used.
How to use proxy
On Internet Explorer:
- Open Tools menu > Internet Options;
- Open Connections tab > LAN settings (near bottom of the dialog box);
- Look for proxy server, enable the “Use proxy server for LAN”;
- Enter the IP Address and port number there;
- Click “Advanced” button, enter google.com into the exception list.
On FireFox:
- Open Tools menu> Options… ;
- Open Advanced tab > Network tab > Connection group > Settings… button;
- In “Connection Settings” form, select “Manual proxy configuration”;
- Enter the proxy IP address into HTTP Proxy box, and port number in to portbox.
- Enter google.com into the “No proxy for” box.
Caution: to avoid all the trouble, remember to bypass proxy for google.com.
What’s next
Update: I got a better solution: Strong VPN (click to read more).
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