Saturday, May 28, 2011

Speeding web browsing with Squid

Squid is a caching proxy server.I live in the place where a high speed internet connection is just a fake dream.So using Squid really helped me a lot.


Requirements:
Squid-Available from your repo.
Yast2-Squid-If you use openSUSE, this is the graphical method of configuring Squid.If you have other Linux variant,you could try ostatic.com/squid-config as an alternative.


Head over to Yast and launch Squid configuration.Check 'Start Squid at boot time' and on cache directory option, increase the value of cache size to optimum size.Open your browser, go to Preferences ------>Network and change proxy to
Address:127.0.0.1
Port:3128
Restart the computer and check the differences after some days.

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