Big and classy hotels in Shanghai provide the best Internet and Wireless Access the Great Morokoshi Firewall can allow. However, budget business hotels may only provide a fairly inadequate wireless service and a desktop PC connected to their hotel LAN.
In Minhang District along Humin Highway for example, is Jiu Gong Hotel, which does just that. The desktop PC in the hotel room is equipped with a modified Express Gate, an obsolete Internet Explorer, and an earlier version of Firefox. With no wireless service, a visitor may be forced to use the desktop PC's mostly Chinese-language interface in order to send out e-mails and execute basic tasks.
Hotel computer connected to the Lenovo Ideapad Z360
However, travellers with a portable/laptop/netbook can easily circumvent limitations by copying the network settings from the Chinese desktop to Windows 7/Linux/Mac OSX's network settings. Although the interface of the Windows in Jiu Gong hotel is in Chinese, accessing network settings is just a matter of familiarity and context clues. Copying the IP address and DNS settings will allow access to the hotel LAN.
Hotel computer IP address settings (in English)
Take note, however, that access to blocked foreign sites still require a VPN or proxy server.
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