Rickles wrote:
I assumed you were connecting to the internet through a router device, most likely provided by your Internet Service Provider (ISP). That piece of hardware, that box, normally has at least a firewall function in it to protect you from unwanted internet traffic. A proxy is simply a different box, but more powerful, that does the same thing and more. If you have only a phone line plugged into your PC and you go through a dial-up process to connect, then you're not using a router of any kind, plain firewall or stronger proxy. Either way, it'd be something in your house with you, not in a foreign country. Since it looks like you have neither, then the question of proxy settings inside SM is meaningless. You can't change SM for something that doesn't exist in your home network.
My previous ISP, DirecWay (hughes.net) advised me to set a proxy using 192.168.0.1 on port 87 as a way of improving performance. I could still get through OK without it, though. I could set it in the Internet Options pane of Control Panel, which affected all Internet-enabled programs, or I could set it for individual programs like SeaMonkey. And yes, I had what they called a "modem" with several jacks in back, which may or may not have fit the definition of a "router."
As for Windows firewalls, there was one built into WinXP, so if DrBill wanted to, he could enable it. If he bought a third-party firewall, it would make sense to disable the built-in one so they didn't compete. Later editions of Windows all come with firewalls that you can enable/disable.
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