Proxy Servers

Bad_KarmaBad_Karma The Great White North
edited September 2003 in Science & Tech
Does anyone know of any fast/reliable/free proxy servers.

If you do, do you find that it makes your internet surfing faster?

I have done google searches but the servers I have found are painfully slow or cannot for some reason find some websites.

Comments

  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited August 2003
    Proxies don't make the internet faster, ever.
  • tophericetopherice Oak Ridge, TN
    edited August 2003
    Don't know of any good free proxies but I would disagree with Thrax. ISA Server 2000 makes surfing a lot faster if you have a large enterprise network and schedule frequently visited sites to be cached @ off-peak times. Also saves loads of bandwidth. Think about it, you schedule sites to be cached @ regular intervals during off-peaks hours. Then when users request a site it's served up from a server on the LAN and their request never has to hit the web. Saves time and bandwidth.
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited August 2003
    top: Thrax and Karma are both refering to Proxies like the ones used for anonaminity, not ones used on corporate LANs. Corp LAN ones will make browsing faster on that LAN, but the proxies Karma is talking about are the other type...

    I am trying to put together a proxy page but it only contains one at the moment as they are not the easiest thing to find.

    I am using it at work now to avoid works whitelisting and blacklisting.

    Its easy to find huge lists, but most the time they dont work.

    Current page: http://atomnet.co.uk/?p=prox

    Hola de Mehico!
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited August 2003
    Yes. I'm speaking of proxies for the sole purpose of anonymity, not enterprise-class cache-proxies.
  • maggie99635maggie99635 Alaska
    edited September 2003
    This one appears good. http://www.proxomitron.info/ and this site is supposed to have good support and info for it http://www.jd5000.net/ I don't use any proxy but for some reason I have these links. Thought I would pass them on.
  • TemplarTemplar You first.
    edited September 2003
    Proxies are good thing to know about incase someone bans your IP block inadvertantly from, say an IRC channel. Don't go abusing this though. It can get you in trouble :)
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    If you want anonymous browsing -
    http://www.space.net.au/~thomas/quickbrowse.html

    But you have to note, only some certain SOCKS proxies will work with IRC.

    NS
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