i just hope this is made sticky for the time being, coz im tired of all the crap connection in the northwest area, i couldnt connect to MSN a huge bunch of websites for days, so i took measures into my own hands.
ive posted this here, because it applies to dialup and cable users.
ok... ive organised this into categories of programs.
1. The WWW internet, if all you want is to connect to webpages, thats simple as hell, goto your web browsers settings, in IE this is located under tools - internet options, goto the connections tab, and click lan settings, tick the "use proxy server for lan" box, and enter this in the bigger box below, without the "", "inktomi2-lee.server.ntl.com" then in the other box, enter "8080". click ok, then restart IE. (if you use opera like me, i guess you're intelligent enough to enter that proxy on your own)
et voila, you can now access all of the web.
2. MSN and other IM programs that arent working, this takes a little more effort and patience than the plain ol internet.
So... you need to find yourself some kind've proxy, i found the ntl ones didnt work with msn,
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=pro...arch&fr=fp-top is a good place to start.
Once found, and hopefully it works, but youll find that out when you try it in MSN, you need to go into Tools - Options in msn's main window, then the connections tab, tick the i use a proxy button, and then choose the type of proxy you've found, generally theres a million and 1 http proxies a few socks 4, and socks 5, you dont really need to know the differences, but that you dont need to enter a username or password. ok, enter the IP address of your proxy and the port it uses usually split up like this IP.Add.ress:port with the : between the ip and port.
then ok it, and try and sign in, if your proxy is working, you're in.
3. Any other web program that doesnt have proxy entry boxes to fill in.
ok... again this is a long winded one so you just gotta bear with me, goto
www.sockscap.com and download the 32bit client once you get to that stage, just put crap in for your name and stuff, its freeware so youve no need to worry, just asks rubbish like apple quicktime download does. Once you have that you should get yourself a working SOCKS proxy, this time http ones wont work.
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=pro...arch&fr=fp-top again is a good place to start, once you have one you know/think is working then load up sockscap, and goto the settings option enter the ip and port of the proxy you found.
Then you need to click the "new" button, and add the executable of the program you want to run, if you're not sure what that is, id suggest you either try the file of the same name, "ftpclient.exe" or whatever program you're trying or wait til the DNS problems blow over.
ok, now once you have chosen the exe file, click ok, then highlight your program and click RUN. this will make the program you're using connection through the proxy you have chosen.
4. WARNING! read this regardless which of the above you choose, proxies whilst good for anonymously surfing and routing around problems with NTL are also unsecure, the lists on the net are peoples home computers mostly and in such cases could monitor everything you do. but unless they have programs that look for msn passwords and things in the data stream your safe, and as you have there IP address, you can simply call the police and prove theft, scaremongering aside, i use proxies all the time, depending on where ive been banned from ;-) and whether i want more anonymity or reliability in connection.