Ian Douglas wrote:
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I access the internet though an NTL broadband connection. Do you think I should perhaps disable the "Direct connection" option and insert some URLs into the "HTTP Proxy" and associated "Port" boxes under the "Manual Proxy Configuration" section???
NTL run transparent caches and proxies, and they are known to break. Try using another proxy, which will cause you to bypass the transparent NTL ones, and see what happens. This doc:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d.h.walker/cmtips/trancache.html
...explains all.
Cheers, Laurie.