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Old 01-22-2020, 02:55 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by BetterRed View Post
Or maybe the OPs behind a corporate firewall:
Entirely possible. Especially, if the firewall is doing SSL decryption which breaks quite a few sites accidentally--I don't even want to think about the sites that are designed not to work with what is effectively a man in the middle attack.

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GMX works for me in Australia, and it's worked for me in Singapore. Its a subsidiary of United Internet - a major German ISP with tentacles all over. They had some problems a few years ago; over a period of a few months some of their subsidiary sites (GMX, 1-on-1 etc) kept disappearing from some major DNS servers. But I haven't seen that for at least 5 years.
I've noted some issues with GMX over the years but as you say, those were a few years back. Over all for the little I've used their service, it's worked reliably.

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