Looking for a computer geek to help me find a decent proxy

petkow · 09-07-2009, 17:53

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!

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petkow (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Pioneer Posts: 696 Join Date: 01 Aug 2006 Location: Madrid Country:	09-07-2009, 17:53 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!