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This may have been posted before, however it certainly was of use to me.

I had been having issue with some sites such as Ebuyer not loading up properly etc. I knew it was NTL being ghay howerer untill i found this site i didn't know the solution...

This is particually relevant (worked for me)

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This may have been posted before, however it certainly was of use to me.

I had been having issue with some sites such as Ebuyer not loading up properly etc. I knew it was NTL being ghay howerer untill i found this site i didn't know the solution...

This is particually relevant (worked for me)

I don't really understand much of that, so what's the solution for eBuyer?

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To set an explicit web proxy in Internet Explorer for Windows (the second link) theres a guide for both IE and Fire fox etc.

Basicly you set a proxy thingy up. Port 8080 and any one of those different sites listed in the green at the bottom (suggest one near to your location perhaps).

Has worked a treat. Went from jsut about being able to laod pages of ebuyer up and sometimes it disconnecting, to being able to use it normally :)

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Its bound to say somewhere on that extensive site, i not read it all yet. I think it might be best to turn off (go back to defualts) unless you need it for a particular site perhaps.

Not 100% sure if it actually has any security risks, provided you don't use tht address for all the proxies (which it tells you to uncheck etc.)

Perhap Danny/Tom etc. would be able to shed light on what its all about more

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Helped me out to get onto the Dell site which I couldn't access from either of my 2 PC's and managed to download all the driver updates for my system.

I've turned the proxy back off now though, if I find other sites that dont work I'll just turn it on when I need it (Y)

Cheers Olly.

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Basically, the sounds of things NTL run a proxy server (transparantly to us, as we don't have to specify a connection to it) which caches web pages. So if we try and connect to Google, it probably comes from a cache on the NTL servers rather than from Google itself. This saves costs for NTL as it costs them everytime they connect outside of their own network.

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