I agree Si. I think C2k should start treating the adults on their network like adults. Fair enough, restrict the little monsters as much as they like, but allow us techies the freedom to surf that we require to do our jobs properly. Besides there are comparatively few adult users on their network, so it shouldnt be a big overhead for them to allow us wider access.
I understand that C2k's (Hewlett packard) internet provision isn't actually "live" internet at all, just a few terrabytes of cached web pages, but it wouldnt be very technically difficult to allow us onto a special proxy that would bypass this.