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[coolsage]

Perhaps it's only up here in the hinterlands, but for more than a month my KT internet connection has been severely impaired. I have no access to MSN Messenger, fleeting access at best to my Hotmail, and it takes many attempts to log on at all, not to mention moving from one of Dave's pages to another. I know of others in this town with the same problem, but is it more widespread? This 'premium' service costs me 40K per month, and I'm getting no value for this. I'm seriously considering switching to SK tomorrow. I'd be interested to hear from customers of KT in other parts of this land, and also those who are using the SK hookup. Frankly, I'm becoming a little tired of hearing this 'most wired country on earth' litany. Sure, the wires are there, but where's the followup, where's the quality to match the rhetoric? (And I'm virus-free).

[peppermint]

I found that a free proxy server program helped immensely, try zone alarm

[BTM]

Zone Alarm is not a proxy server, it's a firewall.

It could be you're running into the same problems I've been having lately, which is down to a misconfigured server inside the cloud at KT, as near as I can tell. Hop # 4 for me, if I do a traceroute, ends up with upwards of 100% packet loss, consistently.

Your solution? Well, I use a browser that allows me to switch proxy servers easily, and I've been using some stable proxies to get content (including BBC WOrld, whihc you're 'technically' not allowed to stream unless you come from a UK IP block), for a while, switching depending on what I was trying to get at. Of course, if your problem is not the same one as I have, it won't help. Sounds likely though.

Go here for some public proxies : http://www.publicproxyservers.com/page1.html

To test, just choose a likely proxy (here or in the US seems best, but anywhere is OK, although you might find some speed degradation), and try to get to the sites that have been giving you troubles. If that works, try a few different ones until you get the best speed.

If you don't know how to set up your browser to use a proxy server, do a google search, and if you're still adrift, post in this thread and I'll help (but not necessarily today, as I'll be out all day), or someone else can.

An added bonus of surfing through proxies is that it adds a layer of anonymity to your surfing (although we are never truly anonymous on the net, for the most part).

Good luck.

[coolsage]

Well, BTM, your computer expertise far exceeds my grasp. Can you break it down into chewable bits for a computer dummy? My initial take on this is that in order to gain access to a proxy server, one still has to go through the original server to get where one one wants to go. If there's another way, I'd sure like to know about it, because I'm about to throw my laptop into the river.

[BTM]

Sorry, coolsage, I forgot about this thread.

Right.

Here are some instructions for various browsers for using a proxy server :

http://info.connect.com.au/docs/proxy/proxysetup.html

Now, where they say enter ('proxy.connect.com.au' on port 8080) you're going to want to go to that site I mentioned before, and pick one at random.

http://www.publicproxyservers.com/page1.html

I just went there, and found this

211.110.6.219 8080 transparent South Korea

entry at about the 5th line in the table, which is a transparent proxy here in Korea.

So, I'd follow the instructions linked to above, and instead of 'proxy.connect.com.au' I'd use '211.110.6.219' and port 8080 (same in both cases).

Now, I'd click OK, OK, OK and try surfing using this proxy. If no joy, I'd try maybe one in America (looking at the table at the publicproxyservers site again) :

204.213.206.3 80 transparent United States

(the last one in the top table, as I see it right now)

Then I'd test again.

If after trying a few different proxies and not getting any joy, it would be safe to assume that you don't have the same problem as I do, and using a proxy server won't help.

Try this FAQ

http://www.freeproxy.ru/en/free_proxy/faq/

for more info about how proxies work.

Good luck!