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[Bill Kenworthy]

According to calamaris, I have a ~27% hit rate on the cache (almost 40MB
saved over the report period, and I also run a redirector - not to be
sneezed at for a modem!)  Thats with me, and two teenagers with wildly
differing habits.  The main reason I run squid is the considerable
subjective speed up it gives.  Its those graphics that make the
difference!  Its not only the downloaded bits that are saved, but the
bandwidth on the link (modem in my case) is available for whats not in
the cache.

I also run it on a laptop for its own use - again makes quite a
difference to the user in speed, but I have no idea of the actual stats
on that one.  I mainly use galeon and netscape to browse, with the
others using IE - my "opinion" is that most browser caches suck big
time.

Also, if on a lan, make sure you use squid in transparent proxy mode so
the little "<DELETED>" dont bypass it and screw up your nice network
design! 

BillK

On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 14:24, Craig Ringer wrote:
> > Hi all I have been trying to speed up my internet
> There is rarely much you can do for linux boxes. The MRW tweaking etc
> that windows responds to isn't needed as linux has a sensible default
> (as do newer versions of windows I think). Other than (for ppp) making
> sure compression is negotiated correctly, there is not much to be done.
> I've found squid to be ineffective for a LAN of 4 people (mine) with
> different browsing habits and browsers that have working caching.