Proxies vanished?

Zicon · 23-07-2006, 15:47

Recently my proxes for NTL have seemed to have disappeared. In the last 2 weeks I've not had any proxies detected on my connection.

Today my IP was changed after the 6 month cycle and again no proxy has been detected with this change - have they just gone?

homealone · 23-07-2006, 16:02

hi

if you are usually routed via the Nottingham proxies, then yes, they have been off, recently. I doubt this is a permanent move, though, as far as I know Nottingham is one of the biggest proxy server clusters on the network, and I can't see them just switching all that off, for good.?

Zicon · 23-07-2006, 16:13

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Originally Posted by homealone

hi

if you are usually routed via the Nottingham proxies, then yes, they have been off, recently. I doubt this is a permanent move, though, as far as I know Nottingham is one of the biggest proxy server clusters on the network, and I can't see them just switching all that off, for good.?

Dam, theres me getting my hopes up!

Is there any reason for them being off in Nottingham at the moment?

kronas · 23-07-2006, 16:17

i wish they would switch those proxies off here, browsing was so much better a few years ago when they temporarily did.

homealone · 23-07-2006, 16:18

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Originally Posted by Zicon

Dam, theres me getting my hopes up!

Is there any reason for them being off in Nottingham at the moment?

no idea, I'm afraid, interestingly if I set a Nottingham proxy on port 8080, it works, but the 'normal' transparent caching of port 80, is turned off ...??

**Stuart C** · 23-07-2006, 16:31

I've been told by NTL that they are not going to get rid of proxies.

**Paul M** · 23-07-2006, 17:57

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Originally Posted by homealone

no idea, I'm afraid, interestingly if I set a Nottingham proxy on port 8080, it works, but the 'normal' transparent caching of port 80, is turned off ...??

The proxies themselves are alive and well, the forced routing of port 80 via them was turned off in Nottingham the other week (Jul 11th IIRC). I have no idea why, but long may it continue.

homealone · 23-07-2006, 18:12

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Originally Posted by Paul M

The proxies themselves are alive and well, the forced routing of port 80 via them was turned off in Nottingham the other week (Jul 11th IIRC). I have no idea why, but long may it continue.

thanks Paul - no complaints here, either

kronas · 23-07-2006, 20:35

just interested, have any of you noticed better browsing/page loading since the turnoff ?

jtwn · 23-07-2006, 21:11

Basically no, if you got a good proxy.

Matthew · 23-07-2006, 22:24

I noticed that my Gran in Grimsby wasnt going via a proxy yesterday and she lives in Grimsby. I hope they don't come back on.

Druchii · 23-07-2006, 22:46

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Originally Posted by Matthew

I noticed that my Gran in Grimsby wasnt going via a proxy yesterday and she lives in Grimsby. I hope they don't come back on.

Does she live in Grimsby by any chance?

Well, i'm proxlyless on this TW connection, and i've never had the problems you NTL'ers have had. So, i feel sorry for ya!

**Paul M** · 23-07-2006, 22:50

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Originally Posted by kronas

just interested, have any of you noticed better browsing/page loading since the turnoff ?

No, not really.

nffc · 23-07-2006, 22:52

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Originally Posted by Paul M

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Originally Posted by homealone

no idea, I'm afraid, interestingly if I set a Nottingham proxy on port 8080, it works, but the 'normal' transparent caching of port 80, is turned off ...??

The proxies themselves are alive and well, the forced routing of port 80 via them was turned off in Nottingham the other week (Jul 11th IIRC). I have no idea why, but long may it continue.

they have? i must try it with no proxy then. i manually select from a full list imported into a firefox extension.

Web-Junkie · 23-07-2006, 23:40

Just out of interest, can anyone get this page on Yahoo:

http://uk.yahoo.com/r/ty/18/pt

I can't and am in the Nottingham NG17 area. I've tried another proxy like leeds, cardiff and belfast and each one cannot connect to that page? Is this a proxy issue with Nottingham or a Yahoo problem?