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[Guest mavisdavis]

NTL USERS

If you have difficulty getting into the forum or browsing the net in general

try the following:

IE Properties > Connections >

LAN Settings

Disable "Automatically detect settings"

Proxy server > enable " Use a proxy sever for your LAN"

Address = cache1-blfs.server.ntli.net

Port = 8080

Seems NTL are having trouble with DNS

Thanx goes to Paul[MVP] for sorting that out for me

[Guest Mr_Protozoa]

have made the change. lets see if it makes any differance.

[Guest Shuflie]

That's the belfast proxy server, you might want to use the manchester one if you're in the north of england, just change blfs to mant. You also have the choice of using cache1 to cache6 with manchester, I'm not sure just how many are on the belfast network.

[Guest FrankyG]

I found that it wasn't NTL that caused my problems, it was Utterly and Completely IE6 service pack 1 which screwed DNS....Ok NTL may be having problems also, but I was dual booting for a while with 2k and XP, XP with IE6 (no SP) internet browsing was perfect. my 2c's

[Guest Rob.P]

A little clarity, the service pack for IE did screw with HTTP browsing on NTL, all other services worked fine though, and problem must have been fixed cause mine is working again.

The other reason for slow and somtimes non-access to HTTP browsing is that the recent virus MSBlast and the other one (can't remember it's name) are still running on some NTL Customers PC's until these muppets patch their machines we will all suffer as the NTL network is flooded everytime these lazy good for nothings switch their PC on. Hence if you phone support why you have to go through the virus check, if you fail the virus check, NTL ban you from using the network until you are patched, which is fair enough.

I usually find that it gets worse when the kids have been kicked out of school.