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The rest of it I agree with though, proxy issues are something that's poorly dealt with not least because according to all metrics and readouts from the proxies they are performing well and are not overloaded in any way. (He says looking at the NetApp info).
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I'd tend to agree with you, as *some* sites are full speed with the Poplar proxies and surely if they were overloaded everything would be slow, specifying a proxy works in the short term, and then a few days later that one is slow too (like my Telia USA site issue - I used the Bagely one and it was fine, but now that is slow too, so I switched to another one etc etc) - we the end users shouldn't have to do this - its time consuming and the whole point of proxies is to speed things up surely ?
The Telia proxy issue at least seems to be time related, Poplar is fast in the morning but slow from about lunchtime onwards, which *does* seem to suggest an overload somewhere, but other sites are slow all the time on certain proxies - the whole proxy issue needs an overhaul it seems to me, they plainly do not work well enough to provide a reliable service - maybe they were good before all these speed issues (they probably worked great when NTL was only dialup) but in these broadband days people want the speeds they pay for - currently 10mb is just a joke for web downloads in this area - which is a shame as NNTP & POP3 downloads show just how good the network behind the proxies is !