On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Richard Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Bucky 'Igneous' Wolfe wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:59:16PM -0500, Andrew Farnsworth wrote: >> > [snip] >>> Andy >>> >> >> 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 ;) >> > > I'll just point out that it's quite likely, since they're on satellite, > that they are already running caching/compression software. I know that > that was provided when I had Starband, along with special drivers than > monkeyed with the TCP protocol (waiting for ACKs is problematic with > satellite stuff). > > I still have my old Starband equipment if anyone is interested in > monkeying with it.
The satellite company does provide an "optimizer", however, according to their FAQ, this just changes settings in your browser to use their proxy server (which probably compresses everything) and to use http 1.1 through the proxy. Andy --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
