Streaming video performance kinda sucks with Squid…

[Pistolero]

Hi all,

I have a pretty phat pipe to teh Intertubes, still I find myself waiting a long time for YouTube or other videos to buffer. It wasn't like this before pfSense (1.2.3 release). Is there any way I can tweak Squid (or whatever in the firewall) to make videos load faster?

Thanks!

EDIT: I run Squid, SquidGuard, and HAVP (HAVP not set up to scan either images or streams).

[jimp]

You can try the suggestions here:

http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Squid_Package_Tuning#Performance_Tweaks

Someone else said they also had success by using 'ufs' for the cache filesystem instead of aufs or any of the other choices.

[Pistolero]

Sir, you are a scholar and a gentleman. Thanks for the tip!