Yes - I have a squid machine at home and at work... the work one generally produces a saving of traffic of the order of 10 to 30%
My work squid server hasn't got enough disk space or ram to be as effective as it could be, but 30% of our 5 Gb cap is 1.5 Gb more traffic. I strongly recommend you all look at a web cache/proxy. On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 10:15, Paul Swafford wrote: > Hi group ... > > just wondering in light of Xtra/Telecom's Cap on what is supposed to be an > "unlimited" service How many people here are using a local (ie on their end > of the last mile/km.6) proxy? > > As some of you may know I run E-caf @ The Arts Centre .. while it doesn't > use DSL .. use of a local proxy their has dramatically reduced bandwidth > costs. I've since hooked up squid at home and am now contemplating going > back to JetStream again (yeah yeah Tempest isn't available in Fendalton) > > FYI .. Tempest is Telstra/Clear's 2M wireless connection .. even that is > helped by a local proxy. > > Well thats my topic du jour > > cheers > > Paul > >
