Speed up dialin connection via proxy?

[Timothy Luoma]

[two replies in one]

On Jan 14, 2005, at 11:05 PM, Dan Nelson wrote:

> A local proxy won't help you any more than simply cranking up your
> browser cache.

rats.  I was thinking that if it was coming from one traceroute hop 
away would be faster than from however many hops the other sites would 
be.

Cache is fully tweaked (I use Opera on the Mac, which has really good 
cache settings).

>> 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.

Ah, now that's a thought.  (My old ISP wanted $5/month for that :-)

Unfortunately  I don't see a port and 'make' failed rather 
unspectacularly

$ make
Error expanding embedded variable.

and Google was no help :-/


On Jan 14, 2005, at 11:27 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote:

> It might also help somewhat to run a caching-only nameserver on your 
> host and forward all queries to your ISP's nameservers.

That's an idea, although it's thinking above my pay scale at this point.

> Disable image autoload in your browser, and/or block .swf.

Done and done (also easy with Opera).

Thanks

TjL