Re: Speed up dialin connection via proxy?
> Timothy Luoma wrote: >> >> I cannot get high speed internet access at home. In fact, I can't get >> more than about 26400 on my dialup. > > That sux Yup, especially after several years of having cable access @ our previous house/apartment. >> Anything else I could do to speed things up? > > ISDN? Direct TV? Cable? DSL? DSL = too far from the local hub ISDN = doubtful Cable = possibly this fall. Our cable company was bought by a new company which says that it is dedicated to expanding rural coverage (it ends about a mile from our house, I think). DirecTV = Had DirecWay installed for less than a month. They wanted $60/month, a Windows OS, no wireless (I understand that they have since come out with a way to overcome those two limitations).. but the bottom line is that it was really not much faster than dialup for regular browsing. For downloading a file, yes; but when you went somewhere like Amazon.com with a lot of images and other external files, it really slowed down (this was 2 way satellite, no phone line. We had it uninstalled before 30 days so we could get our money back ... except the $180 installation fee :-/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Speed up dialin connection via proxy?
[two replies in one] On Jan 14, 2005, at 11:05 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: A local proxy won't help you any more than simply cranking up your browser cache. rats. I was thinking that if it was coming from one traceroute hop away would be faster than from however many hops the other sites would be. Cache is fully tweaked (I use Opera on the Mac, which has really good cache settings). Anything else I could do to speed things up? If you have access to a faster machine at the other end of your dialup link, you can run something like Rabbit ( http:/rabbit-proxy.sourceforge.net ), which will compress your images and web pages before sending them to you and your slow link. Ah, now that's a thought. (My old ISP wanted $5/month for that :-) Unfortunately I don't see a port and 'make' failed rather unspectacularly $ make Error expanding embedded variable. and Google was no help :-/ On Jan 14, 2005, at 11:27 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: It might also help somewhat to run a caching-only nameserver on your host and forward all queries to your ISP's nameservers. That's an idea, although it's thinking above my pay scale at this point. Disable image autoload in your browser, and/or block .swf. Done and done (also easy with Opera). Thanks TjL ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Speed up dialin connection via proxy?
Timothy Luoma wrote: [ ... ] I am wondering if I setup a proxy on the FreeBSD machine, if it would speed downloads up any. If so, what would be a good proxy to use? Anything else I could do to speed things up? Squid is a good proxy, and it can be smarter about caching and using If-Modified-Since refresh queries to check data, but it is not going to give a magical improvement over a browser's cache. It might also help somewhat to run a caching-only nameserver on your host and forward all queries to your ISP's nameservers. Disable image autoload in your browser, and/or block .swf. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Speed up dialin connection via proxy?
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 10:54:23PM -0500, Timothy Luoma wrote: > > I cannot get high speed internet access at home. In fact, I can't get > more than about 26400 on my dialup. > > My dialup is my FreeBSD machine (5.3). > > I am wondering if I setup a proxy on the FreeBSD machine, if it would > speed downloads up any. If so, what would be a good proxy to use? A proxy can help only if you have a situation where you expect local machines to each load the same pages - then the proxy can cache and serve them on your local network rather than going back across your outside link. It won't do anything to help the original fetch of the information, unfortunately. > Anything else I could do to speed things up? Modern modems are already doing some pretty sophisticated compression techniques. They do all sorts of things to try to get as much across the line as possible. They actually transfer data in synchronous blocks to "skip over" the start and stop bits and then reconstitute the asynchronous stream on the serial port side. About all you can do is to find anything within your control that is reducing the quality of the signal your modem can see (make sure that all your wiring from the point of demarcation is new, solid, and away from noise sources - like, not wrapped around flourescent light fixture and things). Other than that, I can't think of anything... > TjL -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Speed up dialin connection via proxy?
In the last episode (Jan 14), Timothy Luoma said: > I cannot get high speed internet access at home. In fact, I can't > get more than about 26400 on my dialup. > > My dialup is my FreeBSD machine (5.3). > > I am wondering if I setup a proxy on the FreeBSD machine, if it would > speed downloads up any. If so, what would be a good proxy to use? A local proxy won't help you any more than simply cranking up your browser cache. > Anything else I could do to speed things up? If you have access to a faster machine at the other end of your dialup link, you can run something like Rabbit ( http:/rabbit-proxy.sourceforge.net ), which will compress your images and web pages before sending them to you and your slow link. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Speed up dialin connection via proxy?
Timothy Luoma wrote: I cannot get high speed internet access at home. In fact, I can't get more than about 26400 on my dialup. That sux My dialup is my FreeBSD machine (5.3). I am wondering if I setup a proxy on the FreeBSD machine, if it would speed downloads up any. If so, what would be a good proxy to use? No - you are at the mercy of the modem. Anything else I could do to speed things up? ISDN? Direct TV? Cable? DSL? -- Best regards, Chris Envelopes and stamps which don't stick when you lick them will stick to other things when you don't want them to. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
