Angela (beesley@gmail.com) [050626 09:41]:
On 26/06/05, David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
A few NTL users are proving as painful as AOL has hitherto been. NTL puts *everyone* behind huge regional proxy servers, 100k+ users all showing the same IP. This creates endless fun with blocks, as you can imagine.
It's also worth noting that NTL proxies are semi-open. When I was on NTL, I could make use of any other NTL proxy, not only the 4 allocated to my town. I'm guessing this is the case for all NTL users.
This is the case. It's not *widely* known, but NTL users get to hear about it 'cos NTL's proxies, being NTL, are crap. So any NTL user could appear to be coming from anywhere in the UK.
- d.