Re: Speed up dialin connection via proxy?
From: Dan Nelson (dnelson_at_allantgroup.com)
Date: 01/15/05
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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 22:05:03 -0600 To: Timothy Luoma <lists@tntluoma.com>
In the last episode (Jan 14), Timothy Luoma said:
> I cannot get high speed internet access at home. In fact, I can't
> get more than about 26400 on my dialup.
>
> My dialup is my FreeBSD machine (5.3).
>
> I am wondering if I setup a proxy on the FreeBSD machine, if it would
> speed downloads up any. If so, what would be a good proxy to use?
A local proxy won't help you any more than simply cranking up your
browser cache.
> Anything else I could do to speed things up?
If you have access to a faster machine at the other end of your dialup
link, you can run something like Rabbit (
http:/rabbit-proxy.sourceforge.net ), which will compress your images
and web pages before sending them to you and your slow link.
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