hello folks:
Lately China Telekom blocks the access to www.skype.com.
Fortunately the access to the German site still works, that´s how I could buy SkypeOut .
Please have a look on that really bad issue.
By the way: Using skype is no problem, just wen site access, so I even cant download updates by the normal way!

Regards

Michael

By the way, where are you ? at china mainland?

I using the china telecom's adsl.but i can visiting the skype.com...

I want to buy the skypeout,but it's the difficult way from china mainland

By the way, where are you ? at china mainland?

I using the china telecom's adsl.but i can visiting the skype.com...

I want to buy the skypeout,but it's the difficult way from china mainland  :(

I am using CNC, works fine with skype.com

there is a guy selling Skype Vouchers in ebay.com.cn, but his price is high, and i didnt verify his stuff yet

Skype.com is blocked in Shanghai, the only place I know that skype.com isn't available in mainland.

Did you try to use a proxy outside of china ?

that should word.

[quote=m-rick]Did you try to use a proxy outside of china ?

that should word.[/quote]

Always feel green go login Skype.com via proxy :evil:

Jirong,

How are you able to participate in these forums?
Is forum.skype.com not blocked in China!?

Any ideas for the thread below about SkypingOut into China?
http://forum.skype.com/viewtopic.php?p=153150#153150

Henk

[quote=hensho]Jirong,

How are you able to participate in these forums?
Is forum.skype.com not blocked in China!?

Any ideas for the thread below about SkypingOut into China?
http://forum.skype.com/viewtopic.php?p=153150#153150

Henk[/quote]

You are right, forum.skype.com isn't blocked.

No one has called my mobilephone with skypeout. few ideas about that :roll:

There are many Chinese guys here. You may search them in this forum. Or call Skype local partner http://skype.tom.com/

rgds
J

I talk to people in Shanghai regularly using Skype. No problems here.

TB

tbagger,

Do you talk to "Shanghai" computer-computer or do you use SkypeOut?

BTW jirong said it's possible to use Skype, but impossible to reach the website.

Do you happen to SkypeOut to mobile phones in Shanghai?
If so, how costly that is for the receiver of your calls?

hensho

P.S. This thread is cited in here: http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/

So let's be as thorough as possible in what we're saying (as usual of course :wink: )

[quote=hensho]tbagger,

P.S. This thread is cited in here: http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/

[/quote]

Tom's thread kicks to think more about the block.

http://www.zalbazone.com/blog/article.asp?id=26

I regularly call:

- Via SkypeOut to mobiles in Shanghai (but I wouldn't how much the receivers pay to receive those calls).
- Via Skype-to-Skype to users in Shanghai (both in the city center and and the suburban areas).

I have also made a couple of SkypeOut calls to Anhui Province.

So far it works reasonably well.

TB

hi everybody,

Skype are verygood for chatting, but to call VoipBuster are very superior and free for Europe,China,usa,canadaif you call land line .

Since I tried one month ago I economise a lot of money !!

The quality are very good .

rrsrltd

Can anybody also confirm if KhaosLabs (http://www.khaoslabs.com/) is blocked in China as well? We've had reports of it being blocked in some places because of our affiliation with and dedication to Skype.

Regards,

-kevin

The funny thing is that the block somehow is selective.

My wife and I are sitting in Shenzhen on the private network side of a wireless/wired DSL router, and of course we share the same WAN address provided by China Telecom.
Still, she is logged in (using a fairly old 1.2 skype), while I cannot log in with either my XP notebook (I tried 1.2.0.48 - doesn't help) nor my Linux PC.

The whole think looks to me like a plot to make the money CT thinks they lose because of Skype.
But for an expat like me skype is the only choice, I won't pay .80EUR/min for China Telecom phone private calls, no matter what.

Let's hope all this is a "technical difficulty", otherwise I'll have to go looking for another service.

Some annoying Skype "features" finally also come to the daylight: that stupid auto-login Skype enforces. Until recently you at least had a choice, now they do it under the table, with the effect that cclicking on the desktop button will now simply fail after a short flickering of the clock symbol. Stupid design choices always get you in the end

Kevin Delaney, (and all)

You should be able to findout whether a site in China is blocked via:

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/china/test/

A site by Harvard fellas: Jonathan Zittrain* and Benjamin Edelman**
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Harvard Law School

Pleas let us know what you found!

Henk

What a fantastic site! Unfortunately, real-time testing wasn't available when I checked. I'll be sure to post back later.

Thanks alot!

-kevin

[quote=tbagger]I regularly call:

- Via SkypeOut to mobiles in Shanghai (but I wouldn't how much the receivers pay to receive those calls).
- Via Skype-to-Skype to users in Shanghai (both in the city center and and the suburban areas).

I have also made a couple of SkypeOut calls to Anhui Province.

So far it works reasonably well.

TB[/quote]

I have SkypedOut to non-mobile phones in the most northern (Lioning),
and in the most southern states (GunagXi) and to Shanghai too, it worked
flawless (from a Mac OS X.3 system). And the new flat rate is truly
incredible: just 50 Eurocents for 25 minutes!

I am facing the same connection problem in shenzhen office, but skype is working good in shanghai office. now i am using overseas proxy to connect skype server. it works fine now.

[quote=Kevin Delaney]What a fantastic site! Unfortunately, real-time testing wasn't available when I checked. I'll be sure to post back later.

Thanks alot!

-kevin[/quote]

BAD (old) NEWS - I asked Ben Edelman about
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/china/test/

... the real time testing for blocked sites seems dead. Is that right?

On Aug 24, 2005, at 12:31 AM, Ben Edelman wrote:

Yes. Regrettably, China began blocking our testing methods so thoroughly
and so quickly that there was nothing we could do to maintain
publicly-accessible real-time testing.

Apologies,

Ben



Yesterday CNN (in Europe that is) had a special on censureship
on the Interne in China. They showed how messages in forums that
contained the word "democracy" were simply wiped out almost instantly.

They reported that CISCO hardware and Microsoft and Google
software supported them in censuring the web.

Two sites (in two character sets) that used to be blocked in China are:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/chinese/simp/hi/default.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/chinese/trad/hi/default.stm

hensho