I saw some conversations a week or so ago about how a new transparent proxy was being introduced on Telecom, right around the time that my web access went completely wrong for a few days, and then seemed to gradually improve. I noticed that my IP was using the proxy, assumed kinks were being ironed out and things would return to normal soon.

But it's now a week later and things are still pretty much crap. Major sites like Youtube, Facebook, Twitter frequently don't load at all or load without CSS or graphics. Any new site I haven't visited before/recently is unlikely to work first time, and usually shows up after a couple of reloads (today sites like Forbes and Business Week took 3 or 4 reloads to get a page). Geekzone forum pages will stall out loading ads from a doubleclick address about 50% of the time.

Before this proxy was introduced, my (Broadband Pro) connection had been absolutely rock solid for over a year, if not spectacularly quick. Is anyone else seeing this kind of degradation? I've (double) checked that I'm using the right DNS servers, have rebooted modems and all the other things suggested in the original discussions.

 Julian.