in Shanghai, and apparently all over China if you're attempting to access overseas websites.
The IT guy says there are only two pipelines out of China through Hong Kong and Macau. The third link through Taipei was severed during an earthquake last year.
Facebook, Blogger and other popular websites are all painfully slow, which is why I'm writing this via Gmail, which seems to be the only thing not affected by the traffic jam through HK and Macau.
More on this later.
