Well, I tried getting that .NET thing installed so I can try using Live Writer and hopefully even posting photos, but I’m relying on China Unicom’s CDMA service, which has been pretty good the last few days, but still is not the most reliable. Maybe I’ll have to wait until I get back to Beijing to sort all that out. China Uselesscom’s service is dodgy enough in the city, it’s even less reliable out here in the countryside. Good enough for most net surfing purposes, but trying to download stuff can be asking a bit too much. And too make it all the more absurd, I can’t get even the tiniest hint of a China Uselesscom signal in our apartment in Beijing. I have to go across to the office for that. And yet sitting here in a very ordinary northern Chinese farmhouse I get the maximum signal…… It’s just the bandwidth that can disappear randomly, and it does that more frequently in the countryside than in the city. I could never figure that out: maximum signal, minimum bandwidth. Actually, I noticed the other day that while I get maximum China Unicom signal up here, I get very little China Mobile signal on the cellphone…. and yet the cellphone works perfectly, as always.
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wangbo
A Kiwi teaching English to oil workers in Beijing, studying Chinese in my spare time, married to a beautiful Beijing lass, consuming vast quantities of green tea (usually Xihu Longjing/西湖龙井, if that means anything to you), eating good food (except for when I cook), missing good Kiwi ale, breathing smog, generally living as best I can outside Godzone and having a good time of it.