From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 15 04:28:44 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 697C916A4CE for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 04:28:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E62C343D1D for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 04:28:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-160-208-232.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.160.208.232]) by pi.codefab.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j0F4SbIE041405 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 14 Jan 2005 23:28:39 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <41E89BC1.7060605@mac.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 23:27:45 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Timothy Luoma References: <2465F54E-66A9-11D9-A44D-000D93AD26C8@tntluoma.com> In-Reply-To: <2465F54E-66A9-11D9-A44D-000D93AD26C8@tntluoma.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.9 required=5.5 tests=AWL,RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL autolearn=disabled version=3.0.1 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.1 (2004-10-22) on pi.codefab.com 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 04:28:44 -0000 Timothy Luoma wrote: [ ... ] > 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? > > Anything else I could do to speed things up? Squid is a good proxy, and it can be smarter about caching and using If-Modified-Since refresh queries to check data, but it is not going to give a magical improvement over a browser's cache. It might also help somewhat to run a caching-only nameserver on your host and forward all queries to your ISP's nameservers. Disable image autoload in your browser, and/or block .swf. -- -Chuck