I finally took the plunge and shifted from my ISP of several years to Bigpipe on a 100/20 plan (& 2talk). I had been having problems with a certain transparent proxy, and the final straw was me being unable to dowload some titles from Playstation network (eg minecraft would never update except when routing the console through PIA vpn).

The changeover was smooth; got up on Monday morning, changed the router config, got my static IP & good to go. Funny thing was I had been looking at changing providers for a couple of years, but held off as all I had heard were bad experiences of prolonged disconnections etc.

All seems good, so far at least. The playstation updates as it should and there are no missing thumbnails on H*lu or Netflix. The videos on the former appear snappier on start-up as well.

What are the benefits of a transparent proxy to the end user, if any? I assume the isp has more control over content delivery but all it gave me were headaches. (& thanks bigpipe)

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