On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:06:48 -0800, Jeffrey Smelser muttered:
> Your always going to get a speed boost as far as the web sites you
> frequent a lot.. These images will be saved in squid and you won't need
> to download them again..

Actually, with a slow last-hop, you'd want to run squid behind the dial-up
gateway. Squid caches the files, but you'd still be reloading them every
time you revisited the site with this configuration.

> It just all depends.. It depends on the pages you go to and how much
> squid can cache of it.. I use it more for a logging perspective and
> anything going through port 80 must go through squid. 
> 
> > I just figured out how to use Webmin to change this. The reason I setup
> > Squid is because I'm dialing-in to a server that's running on a partial
> > T1. Right now, I have the server NAT'ing my connections out to the
> > internet. I'm hoping to get a bit of a speed boost by using a proxy on
> > the server instead. Am I wrong here?

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Andrew Farmer
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