Let me explain our network situation...
We are using Hughes Satellite Internet and we pay like $129.00 per month for it and only have 500MB per day of download bandwidth. If we go over, we get SLOW internet for at least a day. And sometimes the internet is slow even when we do not go over. Although we have a 2MB/sec signal, its been slower than that at times.
So, I want to set up a squid system and I'm hoping that it will help speed things up and make it not as easy to go over the limit.
If at all possible, I would like to be able to run 3.1. If that is not stable enough, then I would do 3.0. I was initially running into some problems and then I realized that I was using 2.7 and some older configuration guides which did not help. I was able to get it to work running it non transparent but I noticed no speed improvement from pulling files off the internet or pulling them off my server.
At any rate, the computer I have has a 40GB hard drive (IDE), 2GB of ram, Pentium 4 processor (I forget the speed... I think its 2Ghz or something like that), and two ethernet cards.
I would like it to be able to run as fast as it can without me having to invest too much money into it.
My thoughts are to make it a transparent server and use COSS with diskd. My problem is I can find hardly anything on setting up either of those on Squid 3.0.
Is there anything I can do at all to improve speeds without me having to spend too much $$?
Or maybe squid is not my answer? I don't know. Anything that will help us improve our speed and avoid Satellite Internet's FAP thing, would be helpful.
Oh yeah and in case anyone asks, the reason we have Hughes is because we cannot get any other internet where we are at. Even cell phones do not work.
Thanks,
~Shawn
We are using Hughes Satellite Internet and we pay like $129.00 per month for it and only have 500MB per day of download bandwidth. If we go over, we get SLOW internet for at least a day. And sometimes the internet is slow even when we do not go over. Although we have a 2MB/sec signal, its been slower than that at times.
So, I want to set up a squid system and I'm hoping that it will help speed things up and make it not as easy to go over the limit.
If at all possible, I would like to be able to run 3.1. If that is not stable enough, then I would do 3.0. I was initially running into some problems and then I realized that I was using 2.7 and some older configuration guides which did not help. I was able to get it to work running it non transparent but I noticed no speed improvement from pulling files off the internet or pulling them off my server.
At any rate, the computer I have has a 40GB hard drive (IDE), 2GB of ram, Pentium 4 processor (I forget the speed... I think its 2Ghz or something like that), and two ethernet cards.
I would like it to be able to run as fast as it can without me having to invest too much money into it.
My thoughts are to make it a transparent server and use COSS with diskd. My problem is I can find hardly anything on setting up either of those on Squid 3.0.
Is there anything I can do at all to improve speeds without me having to spend too much $$?
Or maybe squid is not my answer? I don't know. Anything that will help us improve our speed and avoid Satellite Internet's FAP thing, would be helpful.
Oh yeah and in case anyone asks, the reason we have Hughes is because we cannot get any other internet where we are at. Even cell phones do not work.
Thanks,
~Shawn