On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 01:23:43PM -0500, Andrew Farnsworth wrote: > > This is probably what I will do. I have already put a nail in the p2p > coffin as their upload cap is even more restrictive than the download > limit. Being satellite, they pay for every bit sent or received (ok, > not on a per bit basis but if they go over either the up or down limit > they are shut down... hard) > > Andy > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Jonathan Moore <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > 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 > >
Oh hey, forgot to mention another awesome thing you may want to add. I know this sounds nuts, but you could probably get a reasonable VPS for around $10 a month. Set up Ziproxy (a caching, compressing proxy) on it, to compress images.. then point the squid proxy to the Ziproxy vps.. _then_ point the in-house network computers to the squid proxy/router. That will drastically cut down on bandwidth, and they probably wouldn't notice anything was different. Also, there are various ad-blocking proxies, that you may want to consider (I believe Ziproxy actually does it). So they won't be downloading 1.5mb flash ads, nor will they be downloading 800kb animated gifs for ONLINE GAMBLING!!!). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
