Hi all, I am working on a redesigning my home network, and hoping to drop some of my bandwidth by adding a cache server.<div><br></div><div>so what I would like to do is setup a container with squid to cache and reduce bandwidth. I thought I would ask and see if anyone on the list had done anything like this and if so what upsides/downsides there will be? also </div>
<div><br></div><div>current network configuration </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>                        (modem) -surfboard </div><div>                                |</div><div>                           {router} -wrt54gs running tomato 1.27</div>
<div>                            /  |  |  \-------/wire to workshop/------{switch-wifi} -befsr41</div><div>  [openvz server]   |  |                                                  /  |  |  \   </div><div>                              /   |                                                 /   |  |    \  </div>
<div>      [my main pc]       |                                           [pc]   /     \    [Media Player] </div><div>                                  |                                                [pc]  [Media player]</div>
<div>                         {16 port switch}</div><div>                             ||||||||||||||||</div><div>[Media server]-----/||||||||||||||\---[pc]</div><div> [accesspoint]------/||||||||||||\-----[Media Player]</div>
<div>       [wifes pc]-------/||||||||||\------[Media Player]</div><div>                                 |||||||||</div><div>        (all other ports are wired but not active)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>thanks for any help and thoughts in advance!!</div>
<div>Peter.</div><div><br></div>