Lando Posted January 26, 2007 Report Share Posted January 26, 2007 (edited) Someone has the minimal settings to use Squid accelerator + Firefox ? Thanks a lot. Edited January 26, 2007 by Lando Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted January 26, 2007 Report Share Posted January 26, 2007 If squid has been set up, then squid is listening on port 3128. Therefore, you need to manually configure Firefox with the IP address of your squid system, and port 3128 for all protocols (just tick the box for all). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lando Posted January 26, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2007 If squid has been set up, then squid is listening on port 3128. Therefore, you need to manually configure Firefox with the IP address of your squid system, and port 3128 for all protocols (just tick the box for all). It's not enough .... with squid the download speed is 1.4 KB/sec and without it is 250 KB/sec ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted January 26, 2007 Report Share Posted January 26, 2007 Then there is something wrong with your proxy configuration on the squid server. Maybe the hardware isn't good enough, or the settings are not good. Squid is a proxy cache, and is fast for pages that are already downloaded. It won't improve your internet download speed! So, if the speed is not the same, then there is a problem with the configuration of your squid proxy server itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lando Posted January 26, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2007 ....... So, if the speed is not the same, then there is a problem with the configuration of your squid proxy server itself. ....yes, I'm looking for a good squid.config file.... Anyway if squid doesn't speed up the line....I'm no more interested.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted January 26, 2007 Report Share Posted January 26, 2007 It can't speed up your internet connection. Squid doesn't work like that. Squid is a proxy cache, that is all. It doesn't make your connection faster. What squid does is when you visit a website, it caches the pages you view. Then, if you come back and view that website again, it's quicker to load because it pulls the pages from the squid server, and not from the internet. Unless of course, some changes have occurred on that page, then it will load just that content. This is similar to your browser cache, except that the squid cache is available for all users. Therefore, if a lot of users hit the same website often, it's much quicker. And, it uses less of your bandwidth downloading the same files over and over again - which is an advantage, if you have capped download rates set by your ISP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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