rom the privacy of your bandwidth consumption concerns.
own home, you can surf to Internet video, streaming audio
any website on the Internet and online games generally
without worrying about being consume the largest amount of
blocked. However, this is usually bandwidth. Blocking these sites
not the case when you're surfing surely must have dropped the
from work or school. Despite all military's bandwidth consumption
the positive things you can do on a great deal.
the web, businesses who provide
their employees unfettered access The problem with blocking
to the Internet may also be websites from your employees or
opening themselves up to lowered students is that many times a
productivity when the employees student or employee will have a
use their access to surf porn, legitimate reason to use a
play games or do their shopping blocked website. Take Myspace or
while they are supposed to be Facebook users, for instance.
working. Likewise, there are few, They may need to respond to an
if any, schools without Internet important message about a meeting
access. However, schools or respond to other legitimate
certainly can't run the risk of and important correspondence.
allowing their younger students
to access porn or other illegal This legitimate problem has one
or inappropriate materials, of easy solution, and that is, the
which there is an abundance proxy site.
online. Bandwidth is also a
consideration. The American What is a proxy?
military in Iraq recently started
blocking Internet access to It is simply a website which
certain high bandwidth websites, allows a user to type in the URL
like Youtube and Myspace, due to of the site they want to go to,
then you hit enter and it will your company or school
fetch the webpage from it's cache - Proxy surfing can be faster
or fetch the latest version of than surfing on a normal Internet
the page for your viewing. connection, because you can set
Surfing to sites in this manner, options to not download website
by "proxy", means that the owner objects like images, scripts,
of the site cannot tell that you forms and cookies, all of which
have visited the site, your IP take additional time to download.
address is hidden and won't be
recorded and that only the Where to find proxy sites?
address of the proxy is recorded
by the site. Surfing by proxy is There are many proxy directories,
useful in order to surf to sites which maintain a list of the
that are blocked by your Internet latest proxy sites available as
service provider, company or well as established proxies. You
school, because while you may be can also search proxy topsites,
visiting a site that is blocked, which maintain a list of proxy
your Internet service provider, sites by popularity. In addition,
company or school will only be you can simply search for proxy
able to tell that you visited a sites on any search engine.
proxy site, not the site that you
visited WITH the proxy.
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About the Author:
Charles Quinn writes for ProxyOwl proxy site and Anonfox web proxy, two reliable and effective proxy sites to allow users to surf the web without boundaries or limitations.
