I don't know if it's better now, but when I tried to use MT as a cache it REALLY slowed things down. Speeds were higher, but the time from click to page start went up a LOT. So the internet FELT much slower.
I loved my old Cobalt CacheRAQ. Wish I could find something like that again. It worked very well and was really easy to configure, adjust. marlon ----- Original Message ----- From: "David E. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 11:07 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Any thoughts on a decent cache server > Patrick Nix Jr. wrote: >> In another attempt to light the bandwidth load we are going to setup a >> cache server. Any thoughts or suggestions on which one to use? > > I know this is the popular answer to everything on this list, but > Mikrotik RouterOS has a decent, and dead-simple to use, proxy/cache > package. The tricky part is probably finding the "right" place in your > network to put it, and configuring firewall rules (so that Web traffic > gets sent to the proxy/cache server), and even those aren't too difficult. > > At least the "old" one was pretty good - my experience with it was > probably four years ago, but at the time it worked well. Between then > and now, I believe Mikrotik has written their own (previously it was > just the Squid open-source package, with their pretty interface on top). > > If you're comfortable with Linux, you can do it yourself, but the time > you'll save is easily worth the low one-time cost of a RouterOS software > license. > > Whatever you use, make sure you know how to handle "exceptions." Some > Web sites just don't play well with being proxied. (One of our customers > is a dealer for a major auto maker, and the proxy/cache system basically > killed their whole business, as the stuff in Detroit just flat refused > to function.) You'll want an easy way to test this sort of thing at your > desktop, to try to reproduce weird customer calls - and there will be > some doozies. > > David Smith > MVN.net > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
