[pedantic]

Hi

I too have been troubled since the proxy servers were turned back on. During peak times they are very sluggish for me, and to be honest not that great during off peak times As a user of yahoo messenger and chat I have noticed that when trying to profile another user the page fails to display when being transparently cached. I decided to investigate this further, and found that by explicitly specifying my browser to use each of the manchester proxy servers using port 8080, I could then access profiles on everyone EXCEPT cache3-mant.server.ntli.net

It's therefore safe to assume that when being transparently cached, ntl are directing me through cache3 and hence why I'm not able to bring up the profiles page. I've also had some of the problems other people have been having with other sites (ebay and nthellworld) loading very slowly, or in the case of ebay, timing out. Could cache3 be the problem there also ? I've not had the time to test as yet.

Regards