Author: Mike S.
Date: 07:57:42 02/23/01
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On February 23, 2001 at 07:10:47, Stefan Fredriksson wrote: >On February 22, 2001 at 07:27:52, Mike S. wrote: > >>(...) >>I even get older (!) versions of pages sometimes, after pressing F5 (that's why >>I think that there is more than one proxy). >> >>I did not have this problem with other providers. >Perhaps you can disable the proxy? Usually the proxy causes more problem than >its worth. I used to disable (or just not configure) proxy servers in the internet settings in Win98, but now in Win ME it looks like there is no proxy setting anymore. I think this was in the dialogue box where the IP numbers of the provider's DNS servers are set too, but there is no proxy input line now (in the registry data neither, as it seems). So I'm afraid I have no influence anymore, on the provider's handling of this. :o( Your right, proxies are no improvement at all for the end user. When I occasionally tried them in Win98, I didn't even notice a considerable speed up (probably nobody else among this IPS's customers was surfing the same chess pages...). It's a pain. I think they are just for hiding perfomance problems the ISP might have. Regards, M.Scheidl
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