Re: [squid-users] Skymaster 630e "Internet Page Accelerator" replacement?

Hi Gustavo:

> There is a service here in Brazil that uses the Skymaster 630e
> (http://www.gilat.com/Products_Skystar360e_OverView.asp) "modem". It
> communicates via satellite and it have a huge delay in the requests...
> so browsing the Internet isn't possible, to solve that they provide a
> "Internet Page Accelerator", unfortunately just for M$ Windows.
>
> The software runs with Wine, but requires a local windows installation :(
>
> The basic operation of that software is: it's a proxy that reduces ACK
> requests "packaging" requests like this: Each page is downloaded in 2
> requests: 1 for HTML and 1 for Images and likes
>
> So I wonder if that is possible with Squid or other GPL software? If
> it's not possible with Squid right now, how difficult would be to
> implement that?
>

        I've already deployed a network using this so called
"satellite modem". I haven't found a replacement for the
Internet Page Accelerator so my solution was using Squid
as it's "child cache".
        Please refer "cache_host" directive.

bests regards

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