[squid-users] Squid 2/3 slower than direct access

[Greg Wilson]

I've installed Squid on a HP DL380 server with dual cpus, 2 Gb RAM and SCSI 
raid 5. It's running on Debian Sarge with little extra load. I am using this 
for our staff of around 100 and though this would do the job easily. It's 
running with all default Squid settings except Cache RAM which I've increased 
to 96Mb. There are no peer caches. I have checked that there are no speed and 
duplex setting mismatches between the proxy and firewall.
 
The squid proxy returns web pages approx. 2/3 slower than a direct connection 
using the same link.
 
Can some-one please give me some simple steps to increase the speed of the 
cache?
 
Thanks for any advice.