Re: Manchester proxy
 

I still wonder why ntl keep throwing money at these things, just sell them on and upgrade their external traffic capacity which needs doing anyway. Stick a £1 or £2 on new customer signups to help cut the difference.

If NTL slowed down their growth recharged for install etc. they would have the money to not need these and provide a better service for the customers they have, they have a big customer base their is money to be made by getting more out of each customer.

Re: Manchester proxy
 

Good point quite agree they have great difficulty with proxies

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And those offices use corporate proxies rather than the public ones.

Re: Manchester proxy
 

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
I wish NTL would leave these things off. My connection flew when they were switched off, now they're back on its back to a crawl.. I'm in south manchester, ping details below.


C:\Documents and Settings\john>ping www.bbc.co.uk

Pinging www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.224.83] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 212.58.224.83: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=242
Request timed out.
Reply from 212.58.224.83: bytes=32 time=50ms TTL=242
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 212.58.224.83:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 2, Lost = 2 (50% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 28ms, Maximum = 50ms, Average = 39ms

C:\Documents and Settings\john>

Re: Manchester proxy
 

Proxy servers have nothing to do with ping times.

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Indeed. But i bet some will not listen to you :).

Bill C <---------------Finds a corner to wait in for the usual suspects. :LOL:

Re: Manchester proxy
 

I am still not going through a proxy and I am Manchester.

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Only the Manchester proxies are off, jb1978 is on the Baguley servers.

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the junior engineer would like your advice on ping times lag

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I'm in Manchester. Does anybody know why I'm on the 'bagu-cache-4.server.ntli.net' proxy server? I've not got any proxies specified or anything. My connection is still very poor and I've reset the router/samsung stb numerous times.

Thanks

Re: Manchester proxy
 

Because you are on a Baguley UBR.

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Whenever Manc proxies was plying up I found Bagu4 to be a good one fast for a proxy. Plus Bill.C uses it a lot :LOL:

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Sorry to drag up an old(ish) thread, but Im on bagu.4 which seems fine enough, but ebuyer takes an age to load (like 2 minutes)

Is this something to do with the proxy, and would I be better off using a different one??

TIA

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Perhaps everyone is using bagu 4 to get to where they want I have just changed back to proxy free from bagu4 coz it seems slow for me. and my proxy free is fast at present.. (sods law something will happen now)

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No chance I can use a better/no proxy then?