Recently, with the ADSL (and now also CATV) connections in Israel, the ISP's found themselves in a strange status: The ratio between the total bandwidth of their users, and the bandwidths of the ISP's to abroad (and even between themselves), is higher than ever.
Upgrading the connections, especially to abroad, is not simple, since it involves high costs. The solution of some ISP's was "simple": They route all your traffic through transparent caching proxies. While this "solution" allows them to serve more users and have a faster service, it causes many difficulties to users, especially users who update remote contents. The use of transparent proxies became one of the main parameters to choose between ISP's. Let's build a simple table that will map the use of transparent proxies by the various ISP's: Who uses it, does he use it for all of his customers or only for ADSL (CATV?), and is it used for all the traffic or only for abroad (while local traffic through IIX goes directly). After wasting hours of work today without understanding why my remote changes sometimes affect and sometimes don't, I think it is a serious problem that can't be underestimate. If you know a source for this information, or know about an existing table, or have an automatic "robot" to check the use of transparent proxies, please let me know. -- Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, Founder Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd. __________________________________________________________ Tel.: +972-9-766-1020 8 Yad-Harutzim St. Fax.: +972-9-766-1314 P.O.B. 7004 Mobile: +972-50-23-7338 Kfar-Saba 44641, Israel ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
