I have downloaded a free proxy server, but proxy doesnt work, though its a successfully tested. What could be the reason?
There could be several reasons: • The proxy server is operational, but because it’s remote from you and the proxy is too slow, it takes quite a while for the response to reach your PC – therefore, you think the proxy doesn’t work; • Your ISP has restricted access to certain web-sites and then it has found out your were using the proxy server to access these prohibited web-sites. As a result, your ISP has restricted access to this proxy server (only!) for you (only!). • The proxy server’s ISP (a proxy-server is a computer connected to the Internet, it also has its own ISP) has denied access to the proxy server from your network (or from your ISP – for competition reasons). In fact, there could be many reasons for this, absolutely beyond you and not anyhow related to you; • The proxy server’s settings prohibit the use of the proxy server from your network (see item 3); • This proxy server is a corporate proxy, that means it has a list of computers (allowed IP addresses) which are allowed
