I'm not sure I have painted an accurate picture of the way internet works over here. Let me break it down for you:
We have an ethernet cord in our hotel room. That cord is our only connection to the internet and the outside world in all of China. I'm not being dramatic, this is a real life situation. We have a router that allows us to have wireless and we hooked some ethernets up to it incase wireless is slow. Meanwhile, this is all contingent upon the hotel's internet working- which is never a sure thing. On top of that, we have to VPN into Georgia Tech's network in order to access anything exciting- like Facebook...or this blogging website...VPN is even more unreliable.
On our trip to China, we had an 8 hour layover in Toronto. Why our layover was so long is another topic entirely. I used VPN to watch Netflix for the majority of that experience. I had 10 minutes left in the 5th season finale of Supernatural and the internet stopped working (-__-). I then had to wait 20 min for a wikipedia page to load that explained what happened at the end of that episode. I should have know this was foreshadowing how China was going to be...
Anyway, on a more positive note, I just finished that episode! It took about 20 minutes for Netflix to load and buffer those 10 minutes, but hey, I waited 3.5 weeks, what's another 20 minutes? It was a great finale and worth the wait in case you're wondering.
(In the time it took me to write this post I have had to reconnect to VPN twice...BEST INTERNET EVER.)
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