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Originally Posted by ian@huth
NTL use transparent caches and route most customers through these. They do not show up in the internet explorer cache settings unless you specify a different one to your default. Click on the "connection" tab at the top of this page and it will tell you if you are being routed through one.
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These caches only route traffic on port 80, they do not affect Bittorrent traffic unless a person specifically tries to bounce their BT connections off a webcache on port 8080.
Ignore above it doesn't apply.
The Windows firewall isn't bad at all, the XP Service Pack 2 firewall is every bit as good as the likes of Zonealarm, etc, better IMHO as it's more compatible with the operating system. Advertising IP isn't a major issue people are constantly scanning IP ranges anyway.
1) Don't shove connections through port 8080 (you'll hit the webcache , ports 135 - 137, 445 (you'll hit a port block to stop worm / virus traffic).
2) Are you in Ashford, Kent?
3) What does the tracker report your IP address to be?