[Chrysalis]

What bamuses me is ignition and other NTL staff have not stated the reason and logic as to why they wont remove the proxies from service, even for a temporary period. He just stated a few posts ago there is a permanent fix coming into place for this one problem, (make no mistake there are dozens more) so he acknowledges the problem.

The frustration here is I have 2 choices in maxthon and IE.

1 - use the nott5 proxy or my squid proxy for good browsing, but suffer from missing images due to IE not handling specified proxes very well.

2 - dont specify a proxy so IE loads all images good but then suffer from transperent proxy issues having to hit refresh various times and not been able to use some sites.

IanUK with AOL using proxies I see justification for them since they have an unmetered services, with NTL they have caps which are in the 1st stage now of becoming hard caps so they are in effect already limiting traffic and cutting their traffic costs, this should remove the need to have proxy server's since we have a traffic allocation to use as we please.

Ignition your solution to the cogent issue also bemuses me, we keep hearing NTL have a outstanding internal network at low utilisation blah blah, so the internal network kicks ass good, but now we hear the peering is not so great eh? possible external traffic congestion issues going on is this the main driving force behind the policy on the proxies to keep their external traffic uncongested?