Another transparent proxy problem?

[knewman]

My ADSL line works cool, I just have one problem. It's very specific so I'm not sure if anyone will be able to give any advice.

If I have an HTML page that has a <textarea> element and then tries to do a POST to a PHP script it will hang if the textarea contains more than about 1000 characters. The browser just sits there, nothing gets sent to the server running the PHP script.

If I try the same thing with my dial-up account everything works fine.

If I try the same thing using a free proxy server it also works fine, but is obviously much slower.

The problem only occurs when I'm using my ADSL connection. I have a Marconi "ADSL Router Pots". I tried upgrading the firmware. That made the connection much better but didn't solve the problem.

So for now I have to use this other proxy server, but it's very slow!

Our whole CRM system was written in PHP running on our server in the USA, so I need to do POSTs to PHP scripts almost every day. Working through another proxy is a pain.

Any clues? Anyone know of any free local proxy servers that are quick?

Thank you guys.

-Kevin

 

[knewman]

After reading a few other posts in these forums I tried using this proxy:
dsl-cache.saix.net 8080

This solves my problem! I'm not sure why the default transparent proxy doesn't work but the dsl-cache.saix.net proxy does work.

Is it okay to use this proxy as a Telkom ADSL subscriber? Would it be beneficial to use this proxy for all general surfing, or just when I the default transparent proxy doesn't work for me?

-Kevin