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Vishal Doshi writes:
> Er... I've experimented a bit with Dishnet systems; The idea is .. you have
> loads of bandwith to the dishnet hub. You must set your router/gateway to
> one that is specified by Dishnet. Wierd .. but if you ftp to a server within
> the VSNL datacenter you can get pretty impressive download speeds. I've
> managed to get 25-30k/sec at times;
Old news... I get 250k/s with my Hathway cable connect with any decent
indian/singapore based server.
> Now all you need is a box running squid within VSNL's datacenter; (I've
> tried. It works). The only problem is that VSNL charges people for bandwith
I have one, but I found that I don't need it. I run a compressing proxy
server (150 lines of perl loving :) on my cable linux box. Using this
proxy, I get crazy speeds for webpages when dialled up via modem.
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