The Great Internet Crusade

[Red October1984]

Originally Posted by ExFishermanBob

Once you get your satellite connection, slap an IPCOP box in front of it, which has SQUID on-board and will give you caching (you'll need an old PC with two network cards).

We used to put those on for Hughes customers and it would save about 30% of the bandwidth (you can also use it to block advertising before it gets downloaded which will also save a lot of bandwidth).

I'll have to go down to Radioshack and ask them about that.

Anyway, I'm running SpeedTest.net right now. I notice a difference in accessing Subsim...but I haven't tried it out yet.

Ooooooh. As I'm typing, it just finished.

4.95 Mbps DL
2.15 Mbps UL

A LOT better than what I had.

EDIT: WAIT HOLD UP...

I switched to a closer server and peaked at 19.83 on DL