[ikthius]

I am on NTL broadband, I had previously had problems with getting into websites, and it was suggested by many buddies who know about computers more than i do to get NTL to tell me the proxy servers so that i can access more websites.

NTL's support was very slow in this matter, I had my LAN setting page open, in my windows XP machine before I even rang NTL.
The technical guy did not have a clue he kept me hanging on until he found where the LAN settings were, anyway, they gave me these settings:
Address: 62.253.0.4 Port: 8080
I live just outside glasgow.

This worked fine until a few days ago, when IE would not work. before I was going to waste my money i decided to try out the proxy settings and uncheck them, this worked, but (although it is ok now, as it did before) my problem may come back, so and here is my question. can i use a different proxy address and/or port for my computer, if so what should it be?
I have seen a web page sent in by someone on this forum, but i did not make head nor tail of it.

I have now downloaded Mozilla Firefox 0.8, which is magic.

ik