Need the best squid caching policy for a slow connection
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I've recently been placed in a situation where my internet connection has gone from ~50Mb/s to ~5Mb/s and will stay this way for a while. I'm looking for the best policies and settings to cache content to mitigate most of the loss of bandwidth. My pfsense router is somewhat beefy - it has 8gigs of ram right now and I can go at least as high as 16gigs. Given that there is plenty of cache to work with but a slow connection what would you all recommend?
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To be honest, caching is only worthwhile when you have loads of clients. You're unlikely to see any benefit on a small network -at all-. And add to that lots are sites are moving to ssl reduces even further the potential benefit.
Disabling scripts/ads/ images would probably give you a better browsing experience. -
What counts as a lot? I have 30 workstation and about 10 servers behind my pfsense. The https part does make me wonder if youtube videos can be cached since we use an https connection to youtube though…
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I had a similar network in size, and the cache hit ratio was around 15-20%. YMMV. That would likely increase if SSL interception was enabled but that bring it's own set of problems.
Try it, it isn't too difficult to setup, especially if you use the pfsense package.