[GLLUG] question/suggestion for adding a proxy/cache.

Richard Houser rick at divinesymphony.net
Sat Apr 9 19:27:42 EDT 2011


Caching is great, but the gs is too slow for that.  Trying will
actually slow you down unlesd your connect is near dialup speed.

On 4/9/11, Peter Christenson <pac1.mi at gmail.com> wrote:
> well yes I'm hopping to cut down on incoming bandwidth.  I've also read that
> squid can sorta cache youtube and other video files. (kids keep watching the
> same stupid videos)  although I haven't hit the bandwidth cap I see no
> reason to clog the tubes more then needed, and this also leaves more room
> for my netflix. :)
>
> also my mother inlaw has found out the "joys" of wildblue and facebook. so
> if I can reduce bandwidth on my network I would like to see what I can do
> for her.
>
> Peter
>
> On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 5:53 PM, David Singer <david at ramaboo.com> wrote:
>
>> What do you want to cache? Since internal bandwidth is free and
>> plentiful I assume you are caching items coming into your network.
>> Browsers already do a pretty good job at this and you can turn up the
>> cache significantly on most of them.
>>
>> David
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 14:51, Peter Christenson
>> <simple.solutions at comcast.net> wrote:
>> >  Hi all, I am working on a redesigning my home network, and hoping to
>> drop
>> > some of my bandwidth by adding a cache server.
>> > 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
>> > current network configuration
>> >
>> >                         (modem) -surfboard
>> >                                 |
>> >                            {router} -wrt54gs running tomato 1.27
>> >                             /  |  |  \-------/wire to
>> > workshop/------{switch-wifi} -befsr41
>> >   [openvz server]   |  |
>>  /
>> >  |  |  \
>> >                               /   |
>> >         /   |  |    \
>> >       [my main pc]       |
>> > [pc]
>> > /     \    [Media Player]
>> >                                   |
>> >        [pc]  [Media player]
>> >                          {16 port switch}
>> >                              ||||||||||||||||
>> > [Media server]-----/||||||||||||||\---[pc]
>> >  [accesspoint]------/||||||||||||\-----[Media Player]
>> >        [wifes pc]-------/||||||||||\------[Media Player]
>> >                                  |||||||||
>> >         (all other ports are wired but not active)
>> >
>> > thanks for any help and thoughts in advance!!
>> > Peter.
>> >
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