As of November 26, 2025, the Chinese file hosting service 123pan mandates a mainland +86 phone number for account registration, effectively blocking international users from downloading ML checkpoints and datasets hosted there. The platform now limits free accounts to 10 GB of monthly traffic, with subsequent downloads requiring payment via Chinese banking methods.
To bypass these restrictions, users can post share links in community forums for manual fetching or utilize third-party services like BaiduFast that convert shares into direct HTTPS links without requiring a login.
These workarounds allow non-Chinese users to access files using standard download managers, though availability depends on the original share link remaining active.