China = no videos?

Hey everyone, I just moved to China and the internet connection I have in my apartment is shitty. I can't watch any videos on Giant Bomb anymore because they take so long to load.  I am using a MBP with the newest version of Safari.  With such a crappy connection, should I be using streaming or progressive?  What's the difference?  What else can I do to get these videos to work?
 
Thanks for your help.

With streaming it doesn't preload so you can watch it normally and freely jump to different parts so long that you've got a good connection. Since you've got a shitty internet connection I recommend that you use Progressive and let it load while you do something else.

Progressive, low quality, pause, go do some shopping, read a book, hopefully will be fully loaded by the time you're done doing whatever.

Speaking of which. I don't notice any difference with High or Low quality but use the latter if you want to make yourself feel better if you want to.

if i try to watch a video and see that its hosted in china, i move on to something else. 
its horrible. doesn't matter what kind of computer you have. 
 
while what i am telling you doesn't help you technically, its sometimes a relief to know its not something you are doing wrong. 

Which part of China? The rural areas will definitely have a horrible connection. You can't use Facebook or Google there from what I understand. Chinese internet sucks....

" Which part of China? The rural areas will definitely have a horrible connection. You can't use Facebook or Google there from what I understand. Chinese internet sucks.... "

Why did you move to china?

Why did you move to China?

" Why did you move to china? "

" Why did you move to China? "

" Progressive, low quality, pause, go do some shopping, read a book, hopefully will be fully loaded by the time you're done doing whatever. "

" Why did you move to china? "

" Why did you move to China? "

" @scarace360 said:

" Why did you move to china? "

@Ragdrazi said:

" Why did you move to China? "

@Pessh said:

" Progressive, low quality, pause, go do some shopping, read a book, hopefully will be fully loaded by the time you're done doing whatever. "

Why did you move to China? "

" @scarace360 said:

" Why did you move to china? "

@Ragdrazi said:

" Why did you move to China? "

@Pessh said:

" Progressive, low quality, pause, go do some shopping, read a book, hopefully will be fully loaded by the time you're done doing whatever. "

Why did you move to China? "

I thought this was a thread about state censorship but that's bad luck m8.

Is it true that the Internet is completely filtered in there?

Why d @EveretteScott said:

This person obviously enjoy Video games. Aren't Video Games either censored or banned there a lot?  I could be wrong and thinking of other places more. "

I moved to China to teach 3rd grade.  Yeah, yeah I know I could teach third grade at home in the states but I can't hang out in Hong Kong on my weekends if I'm living in California. 
 
As far as censorship, yeah, youtube, facebook and blogspot are all banned here but I have a VPN which lets me access them.  But the internet is so slow it's hardly worth it.  Thanks to everyone for their suggestions for accessing GB.

" @OperationTophat: Bro, you live in a country where piracy isn't a word.  Do it, and legally you can't get in trouble.  When in Rome, do as Romans do. "

If I were in that situation again (like I was in the philipenes) I would pay the six bucks to become a member, then start downloading the previous day's videos every night before bed, and watch them the next day. You'd be a day behind everyone else, but at least it wouldn't be quite as frustrating.

I had the same problm when I was living in China. Try progressive. For the record, the internet there doesn't suck, but you are accessing a server that is across the ocean. Chinese sites are fast.

Hm... I don't have any problem accessing Whiskey Media sites when I'm in Shanghai. Sometimes I even watch the Daily Show and Colbert Report streams online when I have the time. Unless my apartment there is using some sort of proxy that I don't know about, I haven't been doing anything special to circumvent the great firewall. So perhaps it is your internet? 
 
As for the games: the reason why real copies of games are expensive is because video game consoles and their games are, for the most part, officially banned in China. Whether or not that ban is effectively enforced is a completely separate issue. This means that there are no local distributors. This means real copies are actually much harder to obtain... which leads to higher "import" prices.
 
Games are legal in Hong Kong, and they are manufactured in Singapore and then officially distributed by either licensed third party distributors or the publishers themselves. So they are much, much cheaper. Xbox games are usually around $40-$50 new, PS3 usually around $60. Activision-published and Japanese import titles are the only two type of games I know of that don't follow this pricing scheme.

When im in China I use Proxpn, but where I go the connection is utter balls so it takes forever to buffer. 
 
I havent moved to China on a permanent basis but it is becoming a highly likely prospect - no more xbox live :-(