On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Bucky 'Igneous' Wolfe <[email protected]> wrote: > Definitely, drop in a *nix router > (IPcop/SmoothWall/ClarkConnect/PFsense), and use their built-in > bandwidth shaper/limiters. Problem solved. Also, I'd suggest > installing something like squid, so it does router-level http caching, > so only the new, relevant things that need to get downloaded actually > do. There's no sense downloading a 120kb header.png every time you > visit a site ;)
Caching is something that you should seriously consider. There is a lot of bandwidth wasted with DNS queries, background images, etc as some have already pointed out. If it's a family your doing this for, I'd consider talking about blocking P2P, streaming and such. I'm not a big supporter of censorship, but it could help save alot of bandwidth. -jon --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
