[PLUG] Simple & Inexpensive Proxy Server

2018-06-11 Thread Mike C.
that concerned about a non-updated version of Google Earth, which I only use occasionally. Thanks to all for the various pointers, which when combined, solved my problem. -- Regards, Dick Steffens -- Message: 5 Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2018 08:20:00 -0700 From: "Mike C

Re: [PLUG] Simple & inexpensive proxy server for community PCs?

2018-06-10 Thread Ben Koenig
Free Geek often has some of the older dual-band netgear routers for cheap. Do some research on the model number, since most of them are very compatible with openwrt. Once you flash the router with openwrt, you can enable the features that stock firmware doesn't provide. Several years ago I bought

Re: [PLUG] Simple & inexpensive proxy server for community PCs?

2018-06-10 Thread Russell Senior
It used to be a real problem on public networks, because the bit torrent clients were pretty aggressive about congesting upstream links. There's a name for the phenomenon: buffer bloat: basically, filling too-large queues at a bandwidth choke point resulting in ugly latencies. For a number of

Re: [PLUG] Simple & inexpensive proxy server for community PCs?

2018-06-10 Thread wes
Not one someone else's network, they don't :) -wes On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 9:15 AM, Thomas Groman wrote: > On Sat, 9 Jun 2018 23:10:04 -0700 > Russell Senior wrote: > > > Our Personal Telco firmware (based on OpenWrt/LEDE) has a dumb > > bittorrent blocker, and we include iftop and tcpdump as

Re: [PLUG] Simple & inexpensive proxy server for community PCs?

2018-06-10 Thread Thomas Groman
On Sat, 9 Jun 2018 23:10:04 -0700 Russell Senior wrote: > Our Personal Telco firmware (based on OpenWrt/LEDE) has a dumb > bittorrent blocker, and we include iftop and tcpdump as management > tools. If you know someone is doing something they shouldn't be, it > isn't very difficult to figure

Re: [PLUG] Simple & inexpensive proxy server for community PCs?

2018-06-10 Thread Russell Senior
Our Personal Telco firmware (based on OpenWrt/LEDE) has a dumb bittorrent blocker, and we include iftop and tcpdump as management tools. If you know someone is doing something they shouldn't be, it isn't very difficult to figure out which client is responsible, and then you can black-hole them

Re: [PLUG] Simple & inexpensive proxy server for community PCs?

2018-06-09 Thread Bill Barry
On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 3:20 PM Mike C. wrote: > I'm doing some volunteer IT work for a small, local non-profit that has a > few Free Geek Linux Mint computers connected to a Zyxel modem w. 10 mb/s > CenturyLink internet connection. > > In the past they've had the typical problems of

[PLUG] Simple & inexpensive proxy server for community PCs?

2018-06-09 Thread Mike C.
I'm doing some volunteer IT work for a small, local non-profit that has a few Free Geek Linux Mint computers connected to a Zyxel modem w. 10 mb/s CenturyLink internet connection. In the past they've had the typical problems of inappropriate content and piracy and have received the cease & desist