Luton Proxy Issues

[goldoni]

Originally Posted by danielf

Look at what I posted just before you. Try that, and see if it works then. The thing with the proxy is that, occasionally, some web pages may not be available through some of the proxies. With standard settings, you are assigned a default proxy. What I posted above allows you to set a specific proxy, which may make the page available (if the problem is with the default proxy, rather than the page). Normally, you will want to use the default settings. Only consider changing your proxy when you have difficulty accessing a specific page. So, don't expect that specifying a proxy will improve your surfing in general. It is a workaround should the one that is assigned to you by default is not able to load a specific page.

Also, your browser, or service pack is not going to make any difference (afaik), when your local proxy decides to act up.

Thanks for the info, tried a few others and yes it brought up the Sky pages no problem. It would seem with NTL and no doubt other ISPs you have to use workarounds to get a normal service with browsing and email. Do'H

Originally Posted by Loco

Hmmmm.... that's really weird, I've been trying it for 3 days without success.

Don't suppose you're on broadband are and that they use different servers for broadband and dialup?

Proxy servers can be a very wierd thing. When they play up, you often don't lose your entire connectivity, it can be just apparently random sites that don't work. I couldn't access www.gspc.co.uk for weeks (a bummer as I was looking for a new house at the time) and hadn't realised a proxy fault could occur in this way, until someone on this very forum suggested I change it. I did, and hey presto...

[Ignition]

Slightly OT but on the subject of broadband ADSL may I recommend www.plus.net - they have a far better reputation than Pipex, offer static IP address and are cheaper for more speed too!

[Florence]

Originally Posted by JustAnotherN00b

Slightly OT but on the subject of broadband ADSL may I recommend www.plus.net - they have a far better reputation than Pipex, offer static IP address and are cheaper for more speed too!

Polite helpfull CS staff who you can watch on the companys webcams they will also wave if you ask Already done that last night @ midnight to prove to someone I was asking for the information. Scott is really helpful Luke also can be recomended.

[andygrif]

Originally Posted by goldoni

I'm on BB via the Luton servers and like you I am unable to get the info for ordering SKY I tried every which way and the screen just timed out. so what am I doing wrong?? I have not changed any settings and using the standard proxy settings ??????? I have tried with IE6 & Firefox, plus I have just updated my OS with SP2

Luton poxy here too....cannot connect, others seem OK. I would presume that this is a fault...I mean the alternative would be anti-competitive right?

[Florence]

If you want to see the plusnet staff @ work
click on this link three camera views the entrance shows little but the other two are good. They finished around 11pm sunday.

Definitely a proxy issue - it doesn't work here when I try it via the default Nottingham cache - but is fine if I manually specify another.