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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