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Looking for a computer geek to help me find a decent proxy
Someone must be able to help me with this. I keep hitting a brick wall!
Can anyone tell me a decent site which lists reliable UK based web proxies! If this is insider info, please just send me a PM! I have spent the last week trialling many, but just cannot get them to work. In the past I had a lot more luck with this! Thanks in advance! |
Not just UK
I haven't used this, only just heard of it this minute: foxyproxy, looks like a plug-in for Firefox, and says it can for example let you use BBC iPlayer from abroad ... |
I use Foxyproxy to proxy home if I want to keep my web browsing confidential (I proxy through an SSH connection).
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Thanks guys. I actually have had foxyproxy installed for a while, but I am struggling to find proxy addresses to feed it with. It really is an amazing bit of plugin, but it still cannot help you for finding proxies. Is the only way out to pay for a reliable proxy?
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Try kproxy.com or proxy-list.org
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The best way is to pay, for certain. That way you know you will have something reliable.
I have a US-based VPS running Linux and I use it for backup mail serving and name serving as well as proxying. I exchanged an account on it for an account on a UK-based one (a friend I trust) so that we can proxy on each other's VPSes. Total cost to me, $5 US a month. |
Thanks. Sorry, I think you might have got too tecnical for me. I have many friends in the UK who run PC's 24/7 some even as servers. Is there anything I can put on one of those to run me a proxy? Will I not eat their bandwidth if I start streaming video for example, or does the entire traffic not flow via that system? Sorry, as you can see I have little idea about this and how to set somehing like this up.
I used to use foxyproxy in order to be able to watch BBC iplayer over here in Spain, but I am not so lucky with it any more. (Incidentally before some over zealous net policeman jumps on my head for infringing on UK TV licensing, I'd just like to point out that I do own and pay for a full UK TV license..) |
Let me explain proxying to you and it will probably make a lot more sense.
A proxy lets you connect to Internet services from somewhere other than where you actually are. Think of it as a relay. So let's say you want to appear you're in the UK, for example to watch BBC streaming video. You can use a proxy located in the UK to allow you to appear you're in the UK. Essentially, that UK machine gets the content for you, and forwards it to you. If your UK friends have running machines and happen to be running Linux or BSD and are prepared to give you a shell account (i.e. text login access), you can connect to their machine using ssh (Linux or MacOS) or PuTTy (Windows), and if you configure it appropriately it will allow you to forward proxy requests. You can then configure your web browser (e.g. by using FoxyProxy on Firefox) to forward some or all requests to that proxy. If you do that you will be using some of your friend's bandwidth. Whether you use too much depends on how much bandwidth their provider lets them use, and how much you use while proxying. Watching streaming video occasionally will not eat up a lot of bandwidth. So here is what would work, although there are other possibilities. You need: - a UK friend - who has a machine running 24/7 - that uses BSD or Linux (Mac OS X is a form of BSD so it will work too) - that has an ssh server running (most Linux & BSD servers do, I think you have to enable it on OS X) - and the friend has to give you a login account - and his ISP has to give him a static IP address that doesn't change (or you have to learn how to work around dynamic IPs using services like dyndns.org; I have static IPs so I don't have to do this). If you can get all that to line up, you're good to go. If not, get yourself an inexpensive UK VPS (Virtual Private Server). Essentially you are buying a little Linux machine (a virtual one running on a machine running many). This will give you a Linux environment in the UK and you can run whatever you want. You only need to run an ssh server to let yourself do what you want to do. You can find cheap VPSes via sites like Low End Box Hosting Websites on Bare Minimum VPS/Dedicated Servers. I'm not sure which provider my friend is using, but I can ask if it's helpful. It's based in London. He pays about 4 pounds a month for it I think. |
Oh, one more option...
If you have access to a friend in the UK with an Internet account, you could simply buy a Slingbox and install it at their home. You could then watch the Slingbox's output remotely, from anywhere in the world with a decent Internet connection. This lets you watch live TV, so it's different from watching BBC video content. |
PhotoJim, Thank you very much for that very detailed explanation! I have finally awoken to the wonderful world of Proxies. As you can see I have never really understood them much though I have used them before (I used to mainly use one based in a University in the UK).
I think by the look of it I will consult my geeks back in the UK to see if any of them have a BSD/Linux machine chugging away in their basements. However, the VPS option does seem like an affordable alternative solution for some pukka british TV and Jeremy Paxman! Thanks also for the Slingbox suggestion. About a year ago or so I did get close to buying one but it's a fair bit of an investment to make. I then went down the route of fiddling around a with my satellite dish to try and get the free BBC signals off the Astra 2D beam though unlike most satellite footprints, it has a very tight footprint around the UK. You can still get its signals here (my neighbours do), but you need a dish upwards of 1.8m which is also extremely pricey! Mine is 90cm but I still manage to get a few odd UK channels on that but no BBC! :( Anyhow, thanks once again! |
Wow... thanks! It will take me a while to wade through that, but I will try! Thank you very much!
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I use to have to use proxies when I was living in Asia. But now it is more to enable something or for security purposes. Many of the published free proxies are not so good - still if you have a tool to test them you can find out what they are like from your position on the net. I think the suggestion made before is probably the best is you want a dependable service. However, something I started to look into, was to use one of the free shell accounts available and then set up a SSH (Secure Shell) tunnel through that. These are better than the free proxies gathered by some of the services in the links I have given. To apply for some of the free shell account you have to justify your need for the shell account - usually a good reason is to learn UNIX or something like that. Typically the the mods/operators will be *NIX people and will like that. Also be aware that some of the free shell acounts specifically do not allow people to use then for SSH tunelling. Interestingly today I received a message on the Full Disclosure security mailing list stating that using a tunnel via SSH is more stable than a VPN - I'm surprised to heat this, but then I havent really used either of them very much. However, I will say that using TOR (The Onion Router) is cool as is you use Vidalia you can see where you network traffic is going. But for your purpose of having an IP in the country of the service you want to use, I don't know if there is a way to get TOR to only use out nodes in the country you specify ie UK or US. I have used TOR a lot and it works very well. I have to use a proxy soon as I want to get my Google Voice account and I need a reliable US IP for both getting a SIPGate.com US DID and doing the sign-up to GV... |
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