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The speed achievable through a proxy depends on whether that proxy has had to obtain the data from source or already has it cached by another customer having recently asked for the same data.
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Sorry, but I just don't buy that as the answer to this particular problem, if that was the case then randomly chosing proxies would show speed differences all the time, but Poplar is *
always* slow on virtually all USA sites and Colchester for example is *
always* fast on virtually all USA sites.
If this problem depended on cached files/sites then it would be spread over all of them and it plainly isn't.
I
NEVER get full speed from the USA sites I regularily visit using my default Poplar proxies (any of them it seems) - I
ALWAYS get full speed using Colchester/Swansea or Hersham Proxies.
I'm not sure how much plainer I can put it
http://www.supernews.com/stats/active.txt as another example gives a speed of about 120-130k using Poplar default - Colchester gives 376k.
Cheers
Ian