[socalstanfan1]

[quote author=Leftcoast link=topic=8058.msg63778#msg63778 date=1372460021]

Has anyone had better luck at bringing up the Cardboard in China than I had this week?[i]

A reliable VPN outside the great firewall is the only way to reliably connect to the cardboard while travelling in China.  Until Yvonne and the powers that be set up a cardboard proxy server with one of China's 2 ISPs (an impossible task for a non-chinese entity) access will always be spotty at best, and most likely non-existent from inside mainland China.
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This is not my experience in China.  I'm living in Nanjing, and have been for the past year and a half (since Spring Festival, 2012).  I've had not trouble logging on to the Cardboard.  I have just recently begun using a VPN, but even before that, I haven't had any troubles at all with this particular website.

I will say that accessing the internet in China can be a very fickle process.  Often there are difficulties accessing the internet, or particular sites, and one is uncertain whether it is the work of the firewall, or just really crappy connections (though if you were able to get everything else, but not the Cardboard, that is pretty strange).  I was here also in the Spring of 2011, during the Arab Spring (and about the time the anniversary of the Tienanmen Square Anniversary), and the service was awful.  You couldn't stay on for more than about 3 or 4 minutes before losing your connection.  The authorities said that it had to do with the impact of the tsunami that struck Japan (quite an eventful season), but we all assumed it had much more to do with the confluence of political issues that had freaked out the authorities.  It has never been that bad since.

[socalstanfan1]

[quote author=Leftcoast link=topic=8058.msg63778#msg63778 date=1372460021]

Has anyone had better luck at bringing up the Cardboard in China than I had this week?[i]

A reliable VPN outside the great firewall is the only way to reliably connect to the cardboard while travelling in China.  Until Yvonne and the powers that be set up a cardboard proxy server with one of China's 2 ISPs (an impossible task for a non-chinese entity) access will always be spotty at best, and most likely non-existent from inside mainland China.
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This is not my experience in China.  I'm living in Nanjing, and have been for the past year and a half (since Spring Festival, 2012).  I've had not trouble logging on to the Cardboard.  I have just recently begun using a VPN, but even before that, I haven't had any troubles at all with this particular website.

I will say that accessing the internet in China can be a very fickle process.  Often there are difficulties accessing the internet, or particular sites, and one is uncertain whether it is the work of the firewall, or just really crappy connections (though if you were able to get everything else, but not the Cardboard, that is pretty strange).  I was here also in the Spring of 2011, during the Arab Spring (and about the time the anniversary of the Tienanmen Square Anniversary), and the service was awful.  You couldn't stay on for more than about 3 or 4 minutes before losing your connection.  The authorities said that it had to do with the impact of the tsunami that struck Japan (quite an eventful season), but we all assumed it had much more to do with the confluence of political issues that had freaked out the authorities.  It has never been that bad since.