No Need for proxy settings is there anymore?

[SimpleSi]

I was having a problem using T'internet on a computer in a school I was doing a code club in and for some reason I was gravitated to checking proxy lan settings and it had the old proxy.lancsngfl.ac.uk:8080 settings in the

 

Removing them and T'internet was fine.

 

My memory is right in that there is no need for any proxy settings anymore? - it was all changed to use a trasnsparent server ages ago wasn't it?

 

Or was it just co-incidence that when i removed them - the T'internet started working again????

 

Simon (more confused than I ever used to be)

[buzzard]

bit late but I'm guessing they've gotten around to cleaning/removing the old proxy so it finally stopped working?