Actually, I use the same settings on my work computer as I do at home. No one in the office likes to use my computer because most WEB pages do not work.
Reminds me of my first computer, and what it was like to be plugged directly into a major university's high speed link to the net, 1992-1995. Mosaic was cool and webcrawler was replacing... whatever that text-only search engine was. Internet providers that couldn't put up an AOL-style service were simply leasing user accounts on a unix machine somewhere, with dialup/telnet access to the usual internet tools. You could install a limited amount of software, but the only one I installed was a utility to wrap TCP-IP up into ascii packets, sent over telnet to my computer and unwrapped, for "real" tcp-ip connectivity from a dialup telnet account. Of course that was replaced with dialup "direct" connections to the internet, but at the time the choices weren't always obvious or even available in lots of places.
I remember when getting a dialup internet account involved "installing" settings hacks to get windows tcp-ip stack to behave, having to download and install various network dll files since various windows updates would break the connections for entire isp's networks.
It's a lot easier now, but the old stuff still works except where explicitly turned off or firewalled. I tried to use some old usenet hacks and got an email from my isp's sysadmin to knock it off... Bastages had installed a tripwire and the guy figured I was old school and sent me a warning instead of disabling my account. It was disappointing to know that some basic hacks didn't work anymore though, even though they are still technically within the old standards documentation.
