Just recently most of the connections here in the Philippines bogged down because of the earthquake in Taiwan...
Most DSl and ISP's were caught with their pants down as most of them and their clientele were affected by slow and mostly frustrating connections... even for DSL providers...
This frustrated me, and i thought about a work around... there must be one... my friend john... who is an SEO person... remarked that the inefficiency of restoring regular connections was partly due to the dotcom crash in the 90's...
Anyway... based on my own knowledge about the internet... and just like traffic.. we can all reroute our connections... well, if i am not totally mistaken, by rerouting our proxy servers... i found a site... (all through the sluggish connection) that has listings of proxy servers around the globe... and i thought.. hmmm.. what if i could find a taiwanese proxy server... and i did... so i changed my browser's proxy servers to that taiwanese one... and voila... i had a somewhat faster connection..
The downside here is that i have to go back to the site directory and choose another proxy server as the latency* of each proxy server changes every day... at any rate... i don't mind as long as surfing is nearly normal, to me at least... :)
The url of the site i go to is http://www.xroxy.com/proxylist.php?port=&type=&ssl=&country=TW&latency=&reliability=7500
* This number gives the time that it took to fetch a very small, known-to-be-good html document through the particular proxy the last time it was checked. This value is mesured in milliseconds.
The test document is less than 1KB in size, and the elapsed time is measured from the moment the connection is made until the moment the document has finished downloading.
The latency data is extremely subjective, since it's a reflection of our connectivity to a proxy, not yours.
Generally speaking, though, proxies with lower latency should be more responsive.
