Hey everyone,

I have a question. I have recently been using an eee pc with a vodem for work and was wanting to use toonel.net with the vodem.

For those of you that dont know, toonel.net is a tunneling proxy service that compresses images and text etc, before sending it to your computer so that you can browse faster over a dialup connection.
To use it, you must set your proxy to localhost:8080


Most of the area that i work in is rural and it only runs at dialup speed when online so I wish to use this program to speed up surfing, not save bandwidth.

I dont like the automatic vodafone optimiser proxy as it doesnt compress the images enough. I would assume that the vodafone optimiser for egsample, compresses jpg's to something like 80%, toonel.net allows me to have them at 10% - still usable and incredibly small.

The toonel.net software works and my browser sends its requests to localhost when on the wifi, however the browser doesnt seem to send its connections to localhost when on the vodem- they seem to skip the local proxy alltogether.

I did a google search and saw someone commenting on twitter that they reckon the vmc program is sucking the connections out. No comment on how to stop this.

Does anyone know how to get the browser to connect to localhost while connected using a vodem?