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**Chris** · 03-01-2006, 17:58

Benefits - for you, very little. In fact, when NTL's proxies go belly up, as they frequently do, you either 'lose' part of the web or you have to manually change to a different proxy that's not broken.

Benefits to NTL - well, keeping a copy of the most popular web pages within their own network makes their service cheaper to run, because they have to access the internet less often to retrieve the pages you ask for. I suppose you could argue that if it's cheaper for NTL to run the service, then it costs you less as well, but in the absence of any evidence that they pass on these savings, it's arguable.

03-01-2006, 17:58	#3
Chris Trollsplatter Cable Forum Team Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,413	Re: Using a proxy - what are the benefits?! Benefits - for you, very little. In fact, when NTL's proxies go belly up, as they frequently do, you either 'lose' part of the web or you have to manually change to a different proxy that's not broken. Benefits to NTL - well, keeping a copy of the most popular web pages within their own network makes their service cheaper to run, because they have to access the internet less often to retrieve the pages you ask for. I suppose you could argue that if it's cheaper for NTL to run the service, then it costs you less as well, but in the absence of any evidence that they pass on these savings, it's arguable.