[squid-users] what to block from the proxy to speed up?

2008-04-03 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
Hi, I want to speedup the websurfing of my LAN. I have a squid running on the gateway, not transparent (people choose to use the proxy or not. I would like to know if there is a list of url patterns to "block" in order to have a more fluent surfing. For example, I already "blocked" - googlesyn

Re: [squid-users] what to block from the proxy to speed up?

2008-04-04 Thread Barry Irwin
I'm a little unclear on your goals - you wish to speed up your net access by blocking things? A couple of things to think about: * is your line congested ? * are DNS lookups working correctly? * have you looked at things like ACK prioritisation on your router/firewall ? IF you want to cont

Re: [squid-users] what to block from the proxy to speed up?

2008-04-06 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
Barry Irwin wrote: I'm a little unclear on your goals - you wish to speed up your net access by blocking things? Yes. Waiting for the wanted website is long enough here. If it has ads (google ad,...) or traffic analyzer (Xiti,...), I would like to flush/zap them. A couple of things to thin

Re: [squid-users] what to block from the proxy to speed up?

2008-04-08 Thread Ben Hollingsworth
Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: Hi, I want to speedup the websurfing of my LAN. I have a squid running on the gateway, not transparent (people choose to use the proxy or not. I would like to know if there is a list of url patterns to "block" in order to have a more fluent surfing. For example,