Problems with Firefox

[akane1984]

Hi i recently got new router Netgear WGT634U, since then my browsing is fast and so is p2p downloads and gaming ping low on my 2MB NTL broadband but when using FireFox inbuilt download utility it runs awfully slow. . i get speeds within browser download of say 33KBs sometimes spiking to what i was used to (193KBs). . any help?>

[Bifta]

Originally Posted by akane1984

Hi i recently got new router Netgear WGT634U, since then my browsing is fast and so is p2p downloads and gaming ping low on my 2MB NTL broadband but when using FireFox inbuilt download utility it runs awfully slow. . i get speeds within browser download of say 33KBs sometimes spiking to what i was used to (193KBs). . any help?>

If you're using NTL broadband, have you tried changing your transparent cache?

[akane1984]

Originally Posted by Bifta

If you're using NTL broadband, have you tried changing your transparent cache?

how do you do that?

[pedantic]

Originally Posted by akane1984

how do you do that?

Hi

See here for instructions http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d...trancache.html

[patrickp]

The best list of ntl proxies seems to be the Forum one, akane1984.

To specify a proxy in Firefox, go to Tools -> Options -> General and click the Connection Settings button. select Manual proxy configuration, enter the proxy you want to use in HTTP Proxy _only_ and enter 8080 as the port. It's also a good idea to enter any IP addresses that you might want to access without a specified proxy (eg. those for your modem or router) in the No Proxy for box.

The click OK and OK: you're done.

If you want to be able to switch proxies on the fly, try the http://www.roundtwo.com/product/switchproxy extension. You can enter several proxies and select which one you want to use with a couple of clicks. Seems to me that Firefox was made for ntl! ;-D