[OSM-talk] JOSM on a cruel network, help please.

[Raphael Jacquot]

Gregory wrote:
> Hi,
> I've been into university and now have to connect to the internet through my
> uni proxy server. It sucks because it's troublesome for everyone to set up
> and some things don't seem to work.
> I have to make sure I set the automatic proxy configuration script address,
> and I think some ports are blocked that thunderbird is currently set to use.
> 
> Anyway I went for a nice walk this afternoon along the River Wear in Durham,
> it's so beautiful by my college and theres a national cycle network that
> needs mapping.
> But I load the track in JOSM, then try to donload OSM data... it times out!
> 
> Any help or guidance? I'll go pester the IT service desk monday.

oviously the real solution is for students to unite and go complain 
loudly about the absurdity of the proxy setup to the IT people, 
explaining that you can't do your work / research whatever in these 
conditions ;D