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Originally Posted by Aragorn
Steve,
You shouldn't need to worry about proxies.
NTL automatically uses their 'transparent proxies' to cache web pages but you shouldn't need to change yours.
Proxies are more important when you are behind a corporate firewall, but you aren't with NTL BB.
Have a look at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d...trancache.html for Robin Walkers discussion on transparent proxies.
HTH
Steve (aka Aragorn) |
Woah! If only it were true Steve ... I have lost count of the nuber of times my web browsing experience has been disrupted by my local NTL transparent proxy falling over. Random web sites disappearing, complete loss of connectivity ...
Periodically, when this happens, I specify a proxy from the list on
Robin Walker's site and leave my connection functioning in non-transparent stylee indefinitely, until, inevitably, sooner or later, the proxy I have specified also goes @rse up. Then I switch my proxy setting off again, thus defaulting back to transparent, until the next time.
This is what some call doing the NTL 'Proxy Dance'.