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. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"