The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #68291   Message #1149040
Posted By: JudyB
29-Mar-04 - 10:02 AM
Thread Name: Tech: Just made a website, any suggestion?
Subject: RE: Tech: Just made a website, any suggestion?
Actually, there may be a problem linking to your site from China. I know that when we got back from Australia we happily posted our trip photos on my Verizon site (http://mysite.verizon.net/ipbar/), and no one from Australia could see them, though people from North America, Europe and Guam could. Never did figure out why, and I got busy and didn't do the follow-up I'd planned.

My guess (and it's only a guess) is that it has to do with Verizon not meeting some security requirement that Australian ISPs require - and Geocities, being another large provider like Verizon, might have the same problem. I remember learning that the internet is divided into several large regions (don't remember how many, but I know that Asia/Australia is a different one than North America), and there may be more barriers to viewing web sites from different regions than there are within a region.

We got around the problem by posting the pictures on Charlie's web site, which is owned by a little local provider and works just fine. We'd only put them on mine to save room on his for more music. So if Shanghaiceltic is still having trouble viewing your site, it's probably not anything you're doing or anything you can fix - though complaining to your provider is probably useful. If enough people let them know there is a problem, maybe they'll fix whatever it is that's doing this.