WOW, cheers for the response, i never knew all that about NTL's proxies. As for the upgrades, i've got mine here (on the south coast) had it for a while now and i gotta say i like it. Though the upload speed is what really needs looking into.
Andy On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 20:18:02 +0100, Paul Vernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Andy, > > NTL use a plethora of networking tricks to enable them to host more people > than they have IP addresses. Can you say multi layered NAT based on region? > Secondly, they use a whole host of transparent proxies to speed up Internet > access for their users (this only works on port 80).... > > If you want to bypass the transparent caching proxies then you will have to > find a public proxy that you can tell IE to use instead of attempting to > access the sites you are looking at directly. > > Thing is, figuring out your actual IP address on NTL is a bit of a > non-started what with the transparent proxies and multi layered NAT masking > it almost beyond hope.. Bypassing these with a proxy and running the tests > will report the proxies IP address... > > BTW... NTLs broadband speed upgrades should be almost finished by now.. They > tell me I'm on 1.5Mbps at home... Funny... Looks to me like 1Mbps still... > Ho hum... More waiting on their customer support lines I guess... > > Some useful info about NTL networks is here.... > > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d.h.walker/cmtips/index.html > > HTH > > Paul > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes by Ben Forta http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=40 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:182801 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
