There is a service here in Brazil that uses the Skymaster 630e (http://www.gilat.com/Products_Skystar360e_OverView.asp) "modem". It communicates via satellite and it have a huge delay in the requests... so browsing the Internet isn't possible, to solve that they provide a "Internet Page Accelerator", unfortunately just for M$ Windows.
The software runs with Wine, but requires a local windows installation :(
The basic operation of that software is: it's a proxy that reduces ACK requests "packaging" requests like this: Each page is downloaded in 2 requests: 1 for HTML and 1 for Images and likes
So I wonder if that is possible with Squid or other GPL software? If it's not possible with Squid right now, how difficult would be to implement that?
I've already deployed a network using this so called "satellite modem". I haven't found a replacement for the Internet Page Accelerator so my solution was using Squid as it's "child cache". Please refer "cache_host" directive.
bests regards
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