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From: "Butch Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 8:47 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] bits per mbps
On Tue, 26 Dec 2006, Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 wrote:
Yeah, I know you took it off for me. As I recall the conversation you
said that we could do some testing that would show that it really did
speed things up. But it also caused a delay when the page was starting to
load and that made it feel slower.
Did I get this wrong?
I think you have it right. Using a cache (even on Mikrotik) really does
speed up browsing for end users. Using a cache, also, makes browsing
"feel" slower, because of the lag between the click and the first part of
the page being displayed. This part is true with any type of cache server
(proxy).
FYI, that is NOT how things worked with my Cobalt CacheRAQ. It was amazing
how quickly things snapped up on the page with it vs. without it. Too bad
it was an older unit and I could only use it by changing the gateway
addresses. And it had heat related lockup issues in the summer.
I'd love to put another one in. It was money very well spent.
Oh yeah, the reports that it generated every day were very useful.
What I was referring to, is the fact that running the proxy server on a
Mikrotik is (and always has been) problematic for various reasons. Having
said that, Mikrotik is in the process of testing a new caching proxy
server (my understanding is that they are coding this one from the ground
up). I don't know how that one will work out. But, either way, I
generally recommend against building a proxy server of any kind. YMMV.
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Butch Evans
Network Engineering and Security Consulting
573-276-2879
http://www.butchevans.com/
Mikrotik Certified Consultant
(http://www.mikrotik.com/consultants.html)
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