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Originally Posted by SMHarman
Erol - you also need to factor in the bandwidth costs that the supplier of the data pays. A site pays its host bandwidth cost. NTLs (and others proxies) reduce the bandwidth I use at my host by about 25%, meaning I stay within my prepaid bandwidth.
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This is true but I doubt NTL run the proxies to save your web hosters external bandwidth. For me if you are doing a cost evaluation from NTL's perspective of how much the proxies save vs how much they cost - then what is relevant is how mcuh they save for NTL (and not how much they save for NTL + third parties)
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Originally Posted by SMHarman
NTLs proxies generally work well for me so I don't complain. Ctrl F5 addresses any problems. Occasionally I need to specify as the transparant Luton/Ware has gone screwy.
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Well I am not an NTL user and never have been so my personal experience is zero. However having hung around this forum and other NTL related forums it seems to me that 'try changing your proxy' is one of the most common pieces of advise given and thus it would appear that NTL's forced proxies do create significant problems for significant numbers of users. For me it is all about choice. I do not think NTL should necessarily scapt its proxies but just that it should allow people to chooses whether they use them or not.