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Jon T · 23-12-2003, 08:19

I wonder what peoples feelings towards the proxies would be if NTL decided to make the caches(proxies) optional and that raised the cost of broadband to pay for all the extra off-network bandwidth that was being used.

Sounds like a "Damned if you do, and damned if you don't" situation to me.

All that's needed is for the proxies to be maintained(fixed?), their speed is sometimes pitifull, their automatic refresh appears to be non existant, and their DNS look-ups are too slow to accept changes in DNS records.

However as i've said, I think abolish compulsory transparent caching would result in higher costs to customers.

Jon

23-12-2003, 08:19	#13
Jon T cf.mega poster Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Mansfield, Notts Age: 30 Services: Virgin Media Telephone and 10Mb broadband Posts: 1,463	Re: NTL's Poxy Proxies I wonder what peoples feelings towards the proxies would be if NTL decided to make the caches(proxies) optional and that raised the cost of broadband to pay for all the extra off-network bandwidth that was being used. Sounds like a "Damned if you do, and damned if you don't" situation to me. All that's needed is for the proxies to be maintained(fixed?), their speed is sometimes pitifull, their automatic refresh appears to be non existant, and their DNS look-ups are too slow to accept changes in DNS records. However as i've said, I think abolish compulsory transparent caching would result in higher costs to customers. Jon