Adam Bower abower@thebowery.co.uk writes:
Anyway, I just signed up with freeserve not much more than a week ago and their data transfer for webpages seems abysmal? [...]
There are four access numbers for freeserve, not all of which work in all parts of the country. They actually connect over totally different networks from the telco level up (and there's one which leaves BT at the local exchange), so performance varies between them. A quick look on groups.google or the freeserve.help.anytime group should get the numbers for you, as I don't have them to hand.
There are two sets of web proxy caches, one transparent and one normal. If one is screwing up, sometimes the other works fine. Try toggling your proxy settings. It sounds like the trans ones are broken from what you say.
Replies to social@lists.alug, please, as this isn't terribly Linuxish.