From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 15 04:12:01 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B74916A4CE for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 04:12:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dexter.starfire.mn.org (starfire.skypoint.net [66.93.17.236]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A79F543D31 for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 04:12:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from john@dexter.starfire.mn.org) Received: (from john@localhost) by dexter.starfire.mn.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id j0F4BvM13066; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 22:11:57 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from john) Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 22:11:57 -0600 From: John To: Timothy Luoma Message-ID: <20050114221157.A13032@starfire.mn.org> References: <2465F54E-66A9-11D9-A44D-000D93AD26C8@tntluoma.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <2465F54E-66A9-11D9-A44D-000D93AD26C8@tntluoma.com>; from lists@tntluoma.com on Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 10:54:23PM -0500 cc: FreeBSD-Questions Questions Subject: Re: Speed up dialin connection via proxy? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 04:12:01 -0000 On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 10:54:23PM -0500, Timothy Luoma wrote: > > 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 proxy can help only if you have a situation where you expect local machines to each load the same pages - then the proxy can cache and serve them on your local network rather than going back across your outside link. It won't do anything to help the original fetch of the information, unfortunately. > Anything else I could do to speed things up? Modern modems are already doing some pretty sophisticated compression techniques. They do all sorts of things to try to get as much across the line as possible. They actually transfer data in synchronous blocks to "skip over" the start and stop bits and then reconstitute the asynchronous stream on the serial port side. About all you can do is to find anything within your control that is reducing the quality of the signal your modem can see (make sure that all your wiring from the point of demarcation is new, solid, and away from noise sources - like, not wrapped around flourescent light fixture and things). Other than that, I can't think of anything... > TjL -- John Lind john@starfire.MN.ORG