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Tor is way too slow. What you need is a secure SSL proxy but, you'll have to pay for it. There are loads of them about but, make sure it's Mac friendly and located in a country over which your government has no control.

I think I've cracked it myself. I seems that Firefox was insisting in filling in proxy settings for HTTP, FTP, Gopher and, SOCKS instead of just for SOCKS. After I had deleted Firefox's preferences to make it start afresh everything started working properly. Hopefully, I'll not have any more...

OK, I now know there is nothing wrong with my router's, browser's or, SSH Agent's settings. Last night I installed a fresh version of Tiger onto a separate partition and updated everything to the latest versions. I opened a tunnel with SSH Agent, configured my browser to use the proxy and, hey...

What model of router is it. I have a NetGear DG834GT and it works great with my Mac but, I also have a NetGear WGE111 which is garbage. Try resetting your router to the factory defaults. If that doesn't work submit a query to NetGear. I have always found doing this to be helpful.

I have just got myself a Secure SSH Tunnel & SOCKS Proxy account and I'm having a little problem in getting things working. I'm using SSH Agent to establish a tunnel to the host server and I have configured Firefox as well using the instructions I have been given. SSH Agent seems to be...