Our equipment sometimes breaks, and sometimes the power fails. We have emergency generators for our Optimum Online servers, but we can't provide power to the whole network, or avoid broken cables during storms. These situations happen infrequently. Optimum Online uses high-availability proxy servers to perform caching and mirroring of commonly accessed sites. In this way, we shield our subscribers from the bottlenecks and other performance problems that plague the Internet.
Proxy servers result in noticeably improved performance.
If you need to turn off the proxy server to access a secure Web site, such as a financial institution, turn on the proxy server as soon as you have completed your visit to that site. For our proxy servers to work correctly and for you to be able to view Optimum Online content, you must have your Optimum Online browser properly configured. Select the Advanced category. Select the Proxies subcategory. Select the Automatic Proxy Configuration option.