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Date:      Fri, 14 Jan 2005 22:05:03 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Timothy Luoma <lists@tntluoma.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Speed up dialin connection via proxy?
Message-ID:  <20050115040502.GA70887@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <2465F54E-66A9-11D9-A44D-000D93AD26C8@tntluoma.com>
References:  <2465F54E-66A9-11D9-A44D-000D93AD26C8@tntluoma.com>

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In the last episode (Jan 14), Timothy Luoma said:
> I cannot get high speed internet access at home.  In fact, I can't
> get more than about 26400 on my dialup.
> 
> My dialup is my FreeBSD machine (5.3).
> 
> I am wondering if I setup a proxy on the FreeBSD machine, if it would
> speed downloads up any.  If so, what would be a good proxy to use?

A local proxy won't help you any more than simply cranking up your
browser cache.

> Anything else I could do to speed things up?

If you have access to a faster machine at the other end of your dialup
link, you can run something like Rabbit (
http:/rabbit-proxy.sourceforge.net ), which will compress your images
and web pages before sending them to you and your slow link.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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