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ralph wiggim

It seems for the last 2-3 days I can just not get into my Yahoo mail and many times the Yahoo main page.

I thought maybe it was my computer or Internet connection but, even from computers in the school buildings, Yahoo just doesn't work.

I looked online doing searches to see if there were any press stories about Yahoo outages but didn't find anything recent.

Using proxy's didn't help at all. I am able to log in - sometimes. Maybe 1 out of 15 tries.

Anyone else have this problem? G Mail works fine but unfortunately for me Yahoo is my provider of choice.

People in the West please input as well as those in China or other Asian countries.

Thanks.

North China Laowei · Joined: 08 Apr 2008 Posts: 419

Ralph,

Maybe this topic belongs in the other China forum..the off-topic one..

but...to answer your question..

yes, here in metro SH, I am having problems with Yahoo as are many of my friends. Doesn't load; no access to mail, etc., etc. This happens periodically.

NCL

suanlatudousi · Joined: 10 Oct 2008 Posts: 384

Absolutely NO problem with Yahoo, Hotmail, or GMail from my location in Shandong.

eddy-cool · Joined: 06 Jul 2008 Posts: 1008

Do you have access to the Internet via your school's intranet?

ralph wiggim · Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 3:00 am Post subject:

waynehead · Joined: 27 Oct 2008 Posts: 15

Yes, I also have had this problem lately.

Hansen · Joined: 13 Oct 2008 Posts: 737 Location: central China

No problems here, Henan

Check local internet bars. It could be your school LAN. May be the ISP also. Wells Fargo bank site was blocked for a couple of months a while back. Wells Fargo said they were aware of the problem but that it was being intentionally caused by ISP in China. Problem was eventually resolved.

Thank you, ISP in China.

ralph wiggim · Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 4:22 am Post subject:

The plan is to wonder over to a local internet cafe later and see if it works better there.

waynehead · Joined: 27 Oct 2008 Posts: 15

It may be obvious from prior posts, but I don't think this is a China-wide problem.

I was at a pc room the other day on the other side of town and couldn't connect to yahoo mail; today at my local pc room it's as quick as can be (by china standards, anyway). So this is a more localized problem I think.

I'm in Wuxi, in Jiangsu province, btw.

mjlpsu · Joined: 03 Oct 2005 Posts: 128 Location: NJ to Shenzhen

Odd happenings on this one. I've been having problems with Yahoo loading excessively slowly at home for the last four or five days. But I haven't had any problems when at the office.

North China Laowei · Joined: 08 Apr 2008 Posts: 419

I have not been able to access Yahoo at all since early last week...and it is the same at a IC that I tried this afternoon.

NCL

ralph wiggim · Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 1:33 pm Post subject:

At least I fell better that others share my misery.

I felt singled out by...Well who knows.

I don't see any announcements on Yahoo, or maybe now Yahoo and CCTV9 are run by the same organization?

Did I miss that merger?

danswayne · Joined: 23 Apr 2006 Posts: 237

I learned at a local Alibaba meeting here in Changsha just last week that they have taken over Yahoo China, so that might have something to do with it. I have been having the same problems so I hope it gets fixed. It took me hours to open an efax last Friday.

And I do mean literal hours.

Moon Over Parma · Joined: 20 May 2007 Posts: 819

I was in Shaanxi and it was a chore to access a yahoo e-mail account I have, and noticed the same problem when I arrived in Beijing. It's definitely a large scale problem.