[James Henry]

Originally Posted by Rik

And believe it or not, not all folks that are working in the IT world are experts on Proxy servers and Web Caches.

Just a shame, 2 members are no longer visiting the forum, thanks to your views and comments, which i take it are always right.
When members feel they need to leave and start a thread on a forum elsewhere, thats really good mate!

WELL DONE!

Perhaps if not all people aren't experts (though I'm no expert either) then they should listen to what people who may have more knowledge have to say rather than ignoring all advice given as they absolutely and completely just know what the problem is and refuse to be diverted from it.

Presumably these cache obsessed posters will throw a paddy on the new site and stop posting on it when someone tells them they have signal issues because that's not what they want to hear?

I just said it like it is, if that offends then tough to be honest. My tone changed due to the complete and utter ignorance being shown to what I was trying to say.

I consider it to be rude when someone asks for assistance then totally ignores the advice given as they consider themselves to know better. Everyone's an expert, few have actually worked on this stuff, and I'm one of them so would like to think it qualifies me to troubleshoot basic connection issues.

Incidentally a lot of people start threads on other sites, doesn't really mean that much they are just spreading their bets to be honest.

I thought the idea of these forums were to help and assist people, and if they arent technical eggheads, you try and explain in a friendly approachable manner? You might want to try it sometime.

Of course thankfully the majority of forums users do, do that, which is why this is such a great forum.

Unfortunately I and another chap tried that and were told we were wrong.

Originally Posted by Gizzy

I like talking technical, and I'm sure they would like to explain to me how this all ties in.

Yep I tried that too and got ignored.

Originally Posted by Gizzy

And of course it is a localised issue ... anyone who has as default the luton 2 proxy has gaming, secure and ftp problems.

I also repeatedly explained and backed up with links why this wasn't true but again got ignored.

Still as I've apparently been the spawn of Satan let's take a look back shall we?

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...3&postcount=39

I thought was pretty clear what I was trying ot achieve but difficult due to OP's insistence that traceroutes are proxied and apparently also go on port 80?

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...1&postcount=41

Reason I posted there is that OP is trying to be technical and is being incorrect, he's trying to tell TS that traceroutes are handled by web caches and wasn't interested in being told he was wrong. I thought I was pretty polite there.

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...0&postcount=51

By this time I was losing my patience a bit with his ignorance of what multiple people are telling him and what he would have found had he researched this issue rather than continuing his ongoing obsession with Cache 2

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...1&postcount=54

I showed him why he was wrong with his assertion that the customer he was quoting had fine signal levels, namely that they were seeing disconnects which last I checked a proxy would struggle to do, and by that point had had enough of having someone who clearly didn't know what they were talking about but could tick the button to proxy everything telling me that I didn't know what I was talking about and absolutely REFUSING to listen to anything that disagreed with how they saw things. So yes I may have been harsh.

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...5&postcount=57

I was curt with you because you simply ignored my posts which I thought were fairly clear that FTP isn't proxied, and also quite clear regarding how proxies were allocated.

Anyway anyone who has issues with gaming / FTP in Luton following this witch hunt against a web and just to emphasise again not FTP, not gaming, web cache as being the root of all evil in those areas is wasting their time with this. I've already said it's signal problems at least in the two cases I've seen, could also be congestion issues for those whose signals are fine as signal problems can also cause congestion due to extensive retransmission of upstream traffic which will obviously cause bandwidth problems as something retransmitted twice will suck up 3 times more bandwidth than necessary.

EDIT: Been busy! I'd like to take this opportunity to apologise to anyone who was unduly offended by my tone of posting in this thread, it is as I'd hope is obvious not the way I normally conduct myself on this forum however exasperation does these things.