Problems with International Forums/Sites

[SecretCode]

Good! ... Do you know an IS-based ISP that offers prepaid? Only Web Africa and Axxess seem to have got there so far.

 

[SecretCode]

Artslink! I've been on their mailing lists (and some descendants of it) for years.

But I can't see a prepaid offering on their site, only debit order (R79/month/1GB) - and I can't see terms around whether rollover is allowed.

 

[milomak]

it would seem i have fallen victim to this recently. every phpBB forum I used to visit without hassle is now giving me errors. **** telkom.

 

[milomak]

so i reported this to axxess. and their solution (which came from saix) was to give them my usrename and passwords for the phpBB forums I was having issues with. What a joke.

 

[StuG]

I moved from the US and had this problem when I first got here. Setting a manual proxy in FF for cache.saix.co.za port:8080 worked for me as far as forums retaining which posts were read etc.

 

[Philip Foglar]

I had this problem since I went over to Axxess and ended up doing the same as you - seems to be working fine still. Strange thing is, prior to going over to Axxess I was with ABSA internet (which got taken over by Atlantic) and I had none of these issues.

Philip.

 

[milomak]

it seems to have been rectified

EDIT: well there is still one giving me hassles.

 

[StevenC]

Been having the same problem for months - the problem is definitely a transparent proxy. I am with Cybersmart, and they changed over to a new system and subsequently screwed their customers.

I am unable to log on to WoW Forums as they dont work with transparent proxies. Other phpBB based forums need me to login constantly as well. I had resolved the problem by getting a private proxy from Cybersmart, which was nice of them, but then I had to get my username changed because of them screwing around with their accounts. So that basically put me back at square 1 and I havent been able to get them to set up the private proxy for my username again.

Also, I am not keen on going through public proxies with important account details, I have heard that the person providing the proxy can cache the information going through it.