OK partial success

I installed squid on my ubuntu machine, which is also my ssh server.

I set SSH to 443 and Squid to 8888 on the server.

on my N900

I use in the terminal:
ssh -N -p 443 -L 8888:localhost:8888 username@myserver -vvv

you can omit the -vvv, but it helped with debugging.

I then went into n900 settings > internet connections > selected the WAP connection > advanced > proxy information

I put 127.0.0.1 and port 8888 for each entry

After I did all this, I managed to get onto the internet, however, it is a lot slower. I am also able to connect to MSN (pecan), but it's a bit buggy... usable though. My first 1 or 2 messages sent won't go through, but after that, they do.

I say it's a partial success because I had to change Pecan to HTTP mode in order for it to connect. My skype and gtalk accounts did not connect, but I'm hoping it's just a setting in squid....