[imjustsaying]

wake me up when connections to non-Chinese servers (the vast majority of them) don't time out half the time, or connections to neighbors like HK and Singapore don't do crazy routing through Beijing, to America, to HK/Singapore and back instead of directly to HK/Singapore, or numerous key websites aren't outright blocked

>lived in Shenzhen, the internets are broken and everybody knows it

[contingencies]

It's not nearly so bad in Shenzhen as it is in some more remote parts of China. In Shenzhen, you can get around it in many ways, eg. HK phone with data roaming.