Is it just me?

Buy / Sell Budget Dealer Experiences
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Is it just me, or do others have problems accessing various East Asian websites regularly. I use OpenDNS for my DNS, and have been very happy with performance. However, when I try to access East Asian websites (PRC & Hong Kong mainly, if not only), sometimes it takes five or even ten reloads to access them. Initially, it appears that the site is offline or does not exist, “Server not found,” not, for example, a 403 or 404 error.

I’m currently going through this sub-forum, and opening up all the recommended and even marginal sites, to see what’s offered. I just encountered this same problem with cnqualitygoods’ site, just now. It took seven retries to get it to load.

In the past, it’s happened with FastTech, and nearly all of the Chinese flashlight companies’ sites (e.g., Nitecore, FenixLight, JETBeam, etc.).

This phenomena does not happen with any other working sites, in any country. A Great Firewall effect?

If it’s my ISP or DNS, I’ll take care of it, but if not, I’ll just deal with it. Sometimes, if I use my VPN to connect to Europe, the connection is established without trouble. And almost invariably if I connect with VPN to Hong Kong, all sites load on the first shot.

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I have no more problems opening foreign websites than domestic websites. They all fail, sometimes. Even google or MSN, but then I live in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

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Could be your ISP's capacity/connections to the affected geographical areas.

Is it happening more often at peak usage times, &/or certain times, Or?

4

Is _ down for everyone or just me?

Short URL at isup.me.

5

nice :slight_smile:

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No pattern. My ISP is a major regional one connected directly into the key elements in the San Francisco Bay Area. No bottlenecks.

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Only relevant if reloading the page doesn’t bring it up over a short period of time.

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I get this message, 对不起,www.cnqualitygoods.com暂时没有开启手机购物功能 trying to access cnqualitygoods.com homepage, but the site seems to work if I go directly to a product category.

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The majority of the Chinese stores we frequent are actually hosted in the US with the cheap big name webhosting companies like Bluehost and Hostgator.

10

Interesting. DDOS protection for the home page perhaps?

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I just did a traceroute remotely on cnqualitygoods.com and it timed out. :frowning:

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It turns out I was being redirected to their “mobile” page as I was on a mobile device, just tried a different browser and their homepage work fine for me.

CNQG looks to be being hosted by quadranet in the US.

Could it be your modem/router? I was having intermittent trouble with the TinyWind website and it turned out my modem firewall had blacklisted it. As I’m not the most tech savvy guy around I never could work out why it was blacklisted and why it worked occasionally.

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I had issues with Banggood’s page for the past week. Intermittently I’d get an error page, but after a short while it would work normally.

Haven’t seen problems with GB or FT, but other sites I just think that it’s the work network intentionally not routing to some of the websties.

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oh~sorry to heard that.