............ however this site is currently running like a pregnant sloth pushing a herd of drunk elephants along Beijing Lu during a Friday night rush hour and after attending a sloth convention in a Moutai distillery.

baidu.com joy here - but I'm using google's DNS (maybe your DNS server is down). I've heard Oz is also suffering from chronic pregnant sloth syndrome.

My 4mbps telecom connection has gotten progressively worse over the past month or so. Even when things seemed to be working alright I could rarely get over 2 mbps, so I switched to a 2mb connection today and things seem to be exactly the same.

I've started to think that telecom does some very strong prioritizing. Sometimes I can barely get gokunming.com, skritter.cn or caing.com to load at all, yet internet giants like baidu and youku are still plenty fast. Needless to say at these times I can't connect to foreign sites at all.

Perhaps China Telecom is experimenting with tiered service to make their 500kbps service seem like 4mbps.

It looks like I'm not the only one. I have been studying math and found a website: www.khanacademy.org based on autodidact learning and it has been consistently blocked. Is this a general lowering of bandwidth or is the GCF blocking this site too?

Could be the firewall. I tried to connect and failed. Started VPN and tried again with success. Is this a site that teaches math for dissidents?

tajonwill, I don't see a reason why the site is blocked. Probably because the vids are hosted on youtube?
Anyway, I have the chemistry and calculus and some arithmatic vids already. You can run a local mirror of the site on your personal computer.
pm me if you need the files..

KHAAAAAAAAN!!!