FFXI in China?

[Riselle]

I play FFXI on my PC (Laptop, yeah it sucks but it goes places with me so w/e). Anyway, I'm going to be studying in China for a semester in the spring and it suddenly struck me that i don't know if i'll still be able to play. Does anyone know if you can still log on to POL and FFXI from Bejing, China? Any info would be helpful.

Thanks!

-Riselle

[Murphie]

You can log in from anywhere in the world, I would assume.

/obligatory if the RMT can do it, so can you comment.

[neighbortaru]

edit: good point aelathir

[Balfree]

you can log on to the game anywhere

is your wireless connection long enough though? unless youre plugging in on some local internet outlet

[Riselle]

I'll get highspeed by plugging into the university's network :-D What I'm worried about is the possibility that the PRC has censored FFXI, since they have a nasty habit of not allowing people to use forums/blogs/chatrooms.

[Ichifay]

I don't think it'd be a problem. I've met a few people playing the game who are physically in China. =)

[kuu]

Only problem is that of your ISP.

Make sure(if you have a choice) to choose a fairly decent one.

From what I noticed, "net-nutrality" is definitelly not in China. International IPs take 10x ping times.

When I tried to log in FFxi in China I pinged out more often then not, and the most I could do was chat with LS before calling it a day.

I'm sure there are ISPs with decent international ping times, but from the several I've tried, no such luck.

Some were so bad, I couldn't even reach my own webmail account...and forget anything remotely community based website, It's firewalled.

[Aeni]

I'll get highspeed by plugging into the university's network :-D What I'm worried about is the possibility that the PRC has censored FFXI, since they have a nasty habit of not allowing people to use forums/blogs/chatrooms.

Just go to one of the numerous "internet cafe" and connect from there. I'm pretty sure the only way you can censor out anything is having to go through a firewall that's been pegged and monitored by the PRC and already have stuff filtering out (i.e., websites, ip addresses) Not sure what kind of a university you're attending at, but for sure any public school will have their bandwith routed through a centralized censoring system.

[Riselle]

Thanks for your help! I'm glad that i'm not going to have to cancel my account

[kuu]

Just go to one of the numerous "internet cafe" and connect from there. I'm pretty sure the only way you can censor out anything is having to go through a firewall that's been pegged and monitored by the PRC and already have stuff filtering out (i.e., websites, ip addresses) Not sure what kind of a university you're attending at, but for sure any public school will have their bandwith routed through a centralized censoring system.

Emm... rather not do Internet cafes in China.

They have notoriously bad international ping times and I mean bad with a Big B.

Most of them have amazing speed if you're playing in china IP (one big intranet?) Watching a streaming movie was easy if it was china IP.

The two I've tried in Beijing (was there for a bit)
I pinged out of ffxionline.com 4 times out of 6

Better trial and error and prepare to pay, may or may not get lucky logging onto FFxi on a uni connection.

It makes sense though, as the easiest way to make money while cutting cost is to skim on international addresses which 90% of chinese people don't goto or are censored anyway.