Lately I've been experiencing some very poor reliability among the proxy servers that NetShade uses. I've been trying to get to the bottom of exactly what is going on, but these servers are out of my control and I haven't been able to find nearly as many reliable public proxies as there once were. NetShade's list used to contain 1000-2000 proxies, now it sometimes contains under 100, and some of those have a tendency to go down throughout the day. I am hard at work at what I think will be a permanent fix to this problem. I am developing my own proxy server, which I will run and maintain myself. This server will be accessible only to NetShade users. It will be totally anonymous and secure, and it should have excellent performance. I am sorry for the recent reliability problems - I did not anticipate them and I hope to have this upgrade ready within a week. The new version will be a free upgrade for all registered users.