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    Squid crippled Steam Download speed

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      solo16
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      Hi,

      Is there any way to block Steam going through my proxy (Transparent Proxy enabled)? I tried to add a user agent in the ACL however it results in Steam not able to download anything at all.

      The reasons I want it to bypass the proxy server are

      1. The max speed it can achieve is 15MB/s (Where previously can max out to 62MB/s)
        ** I have Fibre to Home @536/524 (speedtest speed)**

      2. The CPU load is way too high it constanly staying at ~90 - 99%

      3. It eats up a lot of memory and when it stops it doesn't release them

      I don't have such problem with bt and other internet usage, even on speedtest the cpu rarely go beyond 65% and the memory won't exponentially increase.

      Thx!

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        Abhishek
        last edited by

        do  packet capture to find out destination IP address of stream and add it to proxy bypass list

        2.3-RC (amd64)
        built on Mon Apr 04 17:09:32 CDT 2016
        FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE
        Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4500 @ 2.20GHz

        darkstat 3.1.2_1
        Lightsquid 3.0.3_1
        mailreport 3.0_1
        pfBlockerNG 2.0.9_1  
        RRD_Summary 1.3.1_2
        snort 3.2.9.1_9  
        squid 0.4.16_1  
        squidGuard 1.14_1
        syslog-ng 1.1.2_2

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          solo16
          last edited by

          will do thx!

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            solo16
            last edited by

            Solved!

            Instead of blacklist it I bypass it, I create an Aliases, and monitor the ips going thru my proxy under Real Time tab, then I added those ips.

            Cheers!

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