[squid-users] Are downloads realy faster by using squid?

2013-12-19 Thread Dirk Lehmann
Hello everybody, the second download of a file ist not faster than the first download of the same file. My Squid 3.4 is running on localhost. My browser is configured to use localhost http-proxy port 3128 and ftp-proxy port 3128. Why are downloads not faster even squid is running between

Re: [squid-users] Are downloads realy faster by using squid?

2013-12-19 Thread Leonardo Rodrigues
squid is not magic, it will NEVER guarantee that downloads will be faster. maybe the downloaded file asks to not be cached, its webserver can do that maybe your squid configurations are not allowing files that big (as you mentioned download, i'm assuming it's a quite larger

Re: [squid-users] Are downloads realy faster by using squid?

2013-12-19 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
Hey Dirk,(Is this the first name?) The basic question about a *fast* cache is if you need it or not. If you have two computers which are connected using a direct cable from one to the other, would you need a cache? The issue is what will this cache do.. Let say for example you have a 1Gb line