diff --git a/src/Paket.Bootstrapper/Program.cs b/src/Paket.Bootstrapper/Program.cs
index e2f153aa7b..f22af39b54 100644
--- a/src/Paket.Bootstrapper/Program.cs
+++ b/src/Paket.Bootstrapper/Program.cs
@@ -11,10 +11,10 @@ class Program
         static IWebProxy GetDefaultWebProxyFor(String url)
         {
             IWebProxy result = WebRequest.GetSystemWebProxy();
-            Uri relevantDestination = new Uri(url);
-            Uri address = result.GetProxy(relevantDestination);
+            Uri uri = new Uri(url);
+            Uri address = result.GetProxy(uri);
 
-            if (address == relevantDestination)
+            if (address == uri)
                 return null;
 
             return new WebProxy(address) { 
diff --git a/src/Paket.Core/ConfigFile.fs b/src/Paket.Core/ConfigFile.fs
index e79857357d..f253ad5391 100644
--- a/src/Paket.Core/ConfigFile.fs
+++ b/src/Paket.Core/ConfigFile.fs
@@ -100,10 +100,10 @@ let private setCredentials (username : string) (password : string) (node : XmlEl
 
 
 /// Check if the provided credentials for a specific source are correct
-let checkCredentials(source, cred) = 
-    let client = Utils.createWebClient cred
+let checkCredentials(url, cred) = 
+    let client = Utils.createWebClient(url,cred)
     try 
-        client.DownloadData(Uri(source)) |> ignore
+        client.DownloadData(Uri(url)) |> ignore
         true
     with _ -> false
 
diff --git a/src/Paket.Core/NuGetV2.fs b/src/Paket.Core/NuGetV2.fs
index c112eded77..d054117bb1 100644
--- a/src/Paket.Core/NuGetV2.fs
+++ b/src/Paket.Core/NuGetV2.fs
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ let DownloadPackage(root, auth, url, name, version:SemVerInfo, force) =
                     let credentials = Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(auth.Username + ":" + auth.Password))
                     request.Headers.[HttpRequestHeader.Authorization] <- String.Format("Basic {0}", credentials)
 
-                request.Proxy <- Utils.defaultProxy
+                request.Proxy <- Utils.getDefaultProxyFor url
                 use! httpResponse = request.AsyncGetResponse()
             
                 use httpResponseStream = httpResponse.GetResponseStream()
diff --git a/src/Paket.Core/PackageSources.fs b/src/Paket.Core/PackageSources.fs
index 7fb194d34b..6f703bd602 100644
--- a/src/Paket.Core/PackageSources.fs
+++ b/src/Paket.Core/PackageSources.fs
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ type PackageSource =
     static member warnIfNoConnection (source,_) = 
         match source with
         | Nuget {Url = url; Authentication = auth} -> 
-            use client = Utils.createWebClient (auth |> Option.map toBasicAuth)
+            use client = Utils.createWebClient(url, auth |> Option.map toBasicAuth)
             try client.DownloadData url |> ignore 
             with _ ->
                 traceWarnfn "Unable to ping remote Nuget feed: %s." url
diff --git a/src/Paket.Core/Utils.fs b/src/Paket.Core/Utils.fs
index 997241a5a8..0fa703aa5e 100644
--- a/src/Paket.Core/Utils.fs
+++ b/src/Paket.Core/Utils.fs
@@ -70,18 +70,18 @@ let inline normalizeXml(doc:XmlDocument) =
     xmlTextWriter.Flush()
     stringWriter.GetStringBuilder().ToString()
 
-let defaultProxy =
+let getDefaultProxyFor url =
     let result = WebRequest.GetSystemWebProxy()
-    let irrelevantDestination = new Uri(@"http://google.com")
-    let address = result.GetProxy(irrelevantDestination)
+    let uri = new Uri(url)
+    let address = result.GetProxy(uri)
 
-    if address = irrelevantDestination then null else
+    if address = uri then null else
     let proxy = new WebProxy(address)
     proxy.Credentials <- CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials
     proxy.BypassProxyOnLocal <- true
     proxy
 
-let inline createWebClient(auth:Auth option) =
+let inline createWebClient(url,auth:Auth option) =
     let client = new WebClient()
     match auth with
     | None -> client.UseDefaultCredentials <- true
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ let inline createWebClient(auth:Auth option) =
         client.Headers.[HttpRequestHeader.Authorization] <- String.Format("Basic {0}", credentials)
 
     client.Headers.Add("user-agent", "Paket")
-    client.Proxy <- defaultProxy
+    client.Proxy <- getDefaultProxyFor url
     client
 
 
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ type System.Net.WebClient with
 let downloadFromUrl (auth:Auth option, url : string) (filePath: string) =
     async {
         try
-            use client = createWebClient auth
+            use client = createWebClient(url,auth)
             do! client.AsyncDownloadFile(Uri(url), filePath)
         with
         | exn ->
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ let downloadFromUrl (auth:Auth option, url : string) (filePath: string) =
 let getFromUrl (auth:Auth option, url : string) = 
     async { 
         try
-            use client = createWebClient auth
+            use client = createWebClient(url,auth)
             return! client.AsyncDownloadString(Uri(url))
         with
         | exn -> 
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ let getFromUrl (auth:Auth option, url : string) =
 let safeGetFromUrl (auth:Auth option, url : string) = 
     async { 
         try 
-            use client = createWebClient auth
+            use client = createWebClient(url,auth)
             let! raw = client.AsyncDownloadString(Uri(url))
             return Some raw
         with _ -> return None
diff --git a/src/Paket.Core/VSIntegration.fs b/src/Paket.Core/VSIntegration.fs
index 400d5a3a0d..3b52b273f1 100644
--- a/src/Paket.Core/VSIntegration.fs
+++ b/src/Paket.Core/VSIntegration.fs
@@ -17,18 +17,21 @@ let private getLatestVersionFromJson (data : string) =
 
 let InitAutoRestore environment =
     let exeDir = Path.Combine(environment.RootDirectory.FullName, ".paket")
-    use client = createWebClient None
+    
+    use client = createWebClient("https://github.com",None)
 
     let download version file = 
         rop {
             do! createDir(exeDir)
             let fileName = Path.Combine(exeDir, file)
             let url = sprintf "https://github.com/fsprojects/Paket/releases/download/%s/%s" (string version) file
+            
             do! downloadFileSync url fileName client
         }
 
     rop { 
         let releasesUrl = "https://api.github.com/repos/fsprojects/Paket/releases";
+     
         let! data = client |> downloadStringSync releasesUrl
         let! latestVersion = getLatestVersionFromJson data