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rap60 · Joined: 15 Jun 2010 Posts: 53 Location: Brisbane, Australia

my wife spoke with the Apple Ipad2 help desk for an ipad problem and in the course of the convesration was told that there is no wi-fi in China as it is banned and Ipad's are only useable through downloading apps through your computer based istore.

is this total rubbish??? i seem to think this person doesnt know what they are talking about.

what's the score, any insights appreciated.

we have bought the airport (ethernet converter to wifi) to use in our apartment and are wondering if we should have bothered.

Mister Al · Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 840 Location: In there

Some would be pulling your wife's plonker if she had one. The only real restrictions are some websites of the social networking type, facebook, youtube, twitter etc.

Lobster · Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2011 4:12 am Post subject:

They have wi-fi in Starbucks for crying out loud. Just another person who's afraid to say "I don't know".

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igorG · Joined: 10 Aug 2010 Posts: 1473 Location: asia

Let's keep in mind that banning/censoring on mainland China may not have to do with the central government but with some local ones too. Perhaps these questions should be asked; Where are you OP? Is anyone else on forums in the same location? So, let's not cry out loud yet, shall we?

Songbird · Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2011 7:11 am Post subject:

Was just in Starbucks in Shenzhen about an hour ago using wifi on my Ipod. No probs there.

The Great Wall of Whiner · Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 4946 Location: Blabbing

GeminiTiger · Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2011 12:54 pm Post subject:

I have a wi-fi in my bedroom your wife can use.

harhar.

No really. A wi-fi box can be purchased for your lan-line internet for about 150 rmb in any computer store, I use it for my labtop, PSP and mobile all the time.

Miles Smiles · Joined: 07 Jun 2010 Posts: 1294 Location: Heebee Jeebee

"...there is no wi-fi in China as it is banned and Ipad's are only useable through downloading apps through your computer based istore. "

Wrong. I'm in a second tier (possibly third tier) city in Jiangsu. I can go to the donut shop and use its wi-fi. Cafes here have wi-fi. I know several Chinese who have wi-fi in their homes. I can buy a wi-fi rig in the computer bazaar and in the electronics stores. Pizza Hut has wi-fi.

The Great Wall of Whiner · Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 4946 Location: Blabbing

Do you require a password and/or need to show your ID?

wesharris · Joined: 26 Oct 2008 Posts: 177

Miles Smiles · Joined: 07 Jun 2010 Posts: 1294 Location: Heebee Jeebee

No, I'm not in Xuzhou. A friend likes to surf while she drinks her coffee. I believe that she has a password. I don't think she has shown any ID, at least not when I've been with her. I've never cared for lugging a laptop around.

At least one McDonald's in Yangzhou has wi-fi, and in the city where I live now, one McDonald's (in addition to the places previously cited) has wi-fi too.

I have no idea what is blocked on the wi-fi. I imagine it's whatever else the gov't tries to block: porn, certain news sites, some blog sites, FB, YouTube, anything that has ever expressed a less than stellar assessment of China.

I don't know why some people think that wi-fi is banned throughout China. Ain't so.