From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 15 05:52:56 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 27AF416A4CE for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 05:52:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from spatula.dreamhost.com (spatula.dreamhost.com [66.33.205.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 032AF43D4C for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 05:52:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@tntluoma.com) Received: from [192.168.2.2] (adsl-69-211-82-66.dsl.wotnoh.ameritech.net [69.211.82.66]) by spatula.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 882E117D02C; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 21:52:48 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20050115040502.GA70887@dan.emsphone.com> References: <2465F54E-66A9-11D9-A44D-000D93AD26C8@tntluoma.com> <20050115040502.GA70887@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Timothy Luoma Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 00:52:25 -0500 To: Chuck Swiger , Dan Nelson X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) 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 05:52:56 -0000 [two replies in one] On Jan 14, 2005, at 11:05 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: > A local proxy won't help you any more than simply cranking up your > browser cache. rats. I was thinking that if it was coming from one traceroute hop away would be faster than from however many hops the other sites would be. Cache is fully tweaked (I use Opera on the Mac, which has really good cache settings). >> 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. Ah, now that's a thought. (My old ISP wanted $5/month for that :-) Unfortunately I don't see a port and 'make' failed rather unspectacularly $ make Error expanding embedded variable. and Google was no help :-/ On Jan 14, 2005, at 11:27 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: > It might also help somewhat to run a caching-only nameserver on your > host and forward all queries to your ISP's nameservers. That's an idea, although it's thinking above my pay scale at this point. > Disable image autoload in your browser, and/or block .swf. Done and done (also easy with Opera). Thanks TjL