Should I be entering both the auto-configuration script and the proxy information in the LAN settings, or is only one of them necessary?

Thanks for the assistance, and the heads up re: what to do when it stops working.

How do you set up the proxy? Or how do you open the configuration script.. I've never heard of a .pac file extension.

I agree that the state of the network is apalling - web pages are slow to download, legal downloads (AOE III demo :D) are slow, and all of the games I thought I would have been able to play online are just unbearable due to latency. But what I find almost more uneblievable is that many of you seem t...