Have been in China for past three weeks and finding Skritter very frustrating to use here. When using Study I can write between one and ten characters then it just hangs up - the character box with its three green dots just sits there for between ten seconds and ten hours - any suggestions???

Do you use skritter.cn? I am in Shanghai and it works for me most of the time (only sometimes, I have some unpleasant delays, mainly around 10 - 20 secs). If nothing is happening, then I reload the page and it works again, although you might loose some synchronization of the last few items studied.
I also switched over to Google chrome, which works much better than IE or Firefox.

I am in Shanghai as well and it works fine for me for the most part. I've noticed that mornings and evenings are heavy traffic times and sometimes skritter stops working but after a few refreshes or reconnections, I can usually get it to work.

Thanks Roland. I did not know about skritter.cn - that seems to be working much better.

I have the problem of hang ups every day here in Beijing. When I turn on the VPN it immediately disappears. I think it therefore must have something to do with the internet woo-do the Chinese have in place. I don't think it is linked to a particular browser.

For a change I used scritter.cn today and must say that the performance was actually much better. No hang ups at all...