Chinese internet and electricity goes off randomly all the time. Since I have been here (3 months) we have lost power at least 3 times (and maybe more while we were sleeping). The internet has this very strange habit of going off a couple days before the end of the month. For example, for this month of October, the electricity went off on the 27^th. We pretty much just have to wait till the 1^st of the next month for it to go back on. I think the phone company uses some sort of “you used up all your internet for the month” excuse, which is bollocks, but there’s nothing we can do about it! So, if you are trying to get a hold of me near the end of a month, and I don’t respond- that’s probably why!