Breaching China's Great Firewall is hard. Pushing packets faster than 1Mbps once through is the Boss Fight 79 percent of internet traffic flows into China struggle to flow faster than 1Mbps, but the Great Firewall is probably not to blame. So says PhD student Pengxiong Zhu, from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Riverside, whose research has been showcased by regional internet registry …
Thant isnt communism - china isnt communist and the Communist party is communist
It is a dictatorship with a globalisation capitalism model and state protectionism against external competitors. Long play is the name of the game
China is as communist now as North Korea is democratic...
There are some socialist and communist traces within the ruling party - though not enough to interfere with Xi Jinpings 14 point 'thaught policy'
At least not for the masses. That slowness provides extra protection against those who find ways around the Great Firewall's censorship.
It is like if you had two websites you could visit for the same information. One is very fast but censors and collects personal information, the other is totally open and private but frustratingly slow. Which do you think most people would choose?
Must be an Americanism. Here in the UK, we see Oz as the other side of the world and we have no reason to want to dump shit on them. On the other hand, they might welcome the flush. They'd just filter, clean and use it to combat the droughts, probably using the left over solids as fertilizer :-)
And who insisted that the Isps tier, wouldn't that provide an easy way to add a secondary packet inspection/tagging mechanism would it? As data ingress isn't a problem when it's state initiated, private and international customers though we'll pay for speed and extra inspection, or go slow and traverse the GFWoC fewer times.
That and as mentioned drive traffic to domestic services due to working better/faster, and the practicalities that most sites designed to use a roman alphabet are unusable when used with a character based text, just look at most .jp or .cn sites it's like the last 25years of web design has never happened... Never mind reading right to left or in vertical columns depending on dialect and context, basically html isn't up for the job which is one reason apps dominate in those markets...
It is simple......
The carriers get paid a FIXED amount for adsl and other such bullshit, but for mobile they get to charge for the data...
That's why you see 40Gb fiber to their mast head controllers, but are lucky if you can get a 100mb line fitted into the factory below the mast equipment...
Then you have the situation where mobile data is packet switched between ultra modern infrastructure, where as house hold & factory kit is usually plugged into half assed rack equipment at the ISP...
Also he is incorrect in this statment:
“all packet types share the same packet loss — TCP, UDP and ICMP don’t have noticeable differences."
this is completely incorrect.. and can be proved by changing the packet size...,
There are "fixes" to ensure the network looks faster than it is...
IF you are a top tier subscriber you get the whole picture, with a minimum of censorship. Seems like this would be necessary for the industrial giants in China, as you cannot make accurate business decisions without accurate information. I often wondered how they'd go about that, and now I think this article solves my problem.
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