My brain is hurting. I thought I was computer literate until I tried to investigate a problem I've been having...
I'm in Warrington, which means, I believe, from reading through this thread, that I go through Baguely, which does have proxy servers enabled currently. Is that right?
I've done a traceroute on my own IP - I used the one at mailbox.net.uk, which gives this as the last 3 steps:
8 bagu-t2core-b-pos31.inet.ntl.com (62.253.188.30) 20.275 ms 20.26 ms 20.208 ms
9 bagu-t2cam1-b-ge-wan31.inet.ntl.com (80.5.161.130) 20.052 ms 20.176 ms 19.944 ms
10 ubr01warr-ge20.inet.ntl.com (80.5.162.214) 21.828 ms 20.723 ms 21.4 ms
Can someone tell me what core and cam mean? I've noticed these mentioned before in the thread.
Also, how do I do the traceroute
to http://www.ntlworld.com ? And would people recommend a certain website to do it from?
Also, I could do with educating myself a bit more - I know all these terms and what they indicate but I don't think I actually know exactly what traceroute means, for example. Is there a good introduction site somewhere by any chance?
Er... yeah, so there's the thick newbie post out of the way. Someone's going to point me to a really obvious FAQ I missed now, I can tell...
Halva