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Homechoice: General Questions

What are the details of the Homechoice servers?

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Protocol  Details
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NNTP      news.homechoice.co.uk 
                     (currently alias for news1.homechoice.co.uk)
          news2.homechoice.co.uk
                     (unsupported, unofficial. not always available.)

SOCKS5    gw1.homechoice.co.uk port 1080 (or gw1.homechoice.co.uk:1080)

HTTP&SSL  proxy.homechoice.co.uk port 3128 (or proxy.homechoice.co.uk:3128)
proxy     
          
POP       pop.homechoice.co.uk
SMTP      smtp.homechoice.co.uk

DNS       dns1.homechoice.co.uk   Internet address = 10.16.124.20*
          dns2.homechoice.co.uk   Internet address = 10.16.124.22*

Games     games1.homechoice.co.uk serving:
          Quake3, Unreal Tournament, Half Life Team fortress
          Half Life (port 27006), Half Life Counter Strike (port 27007)
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*DNS addresses may vary according to your location.  If in doubt, try
 allowing servers to be allocated automatically and then ask your operating
 system what values have been assigned.