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« Reply #15 on: April 29, 2009, 09:45:35 AM »
Quote from: instabin on April 29, 2009, 09:12:09 AM
Ya I dont see anything wrong with the proxy....
I just dont understand why I can download from MS at 2.3 meg/sec but not get the speed test to run at that. (with the proxy enabled)
For one thing, they (MS) has the chit on servers as you could imagine, and I would dare to bet, that in the configuration files of  "allowed " or something like that, IP's that MS is in there, so there unrestricted. Maybe not. I need to look closer at ipcop, to have a clue as to what I'm talkn about, I gotta run out , but when i get back I'll do that.
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« Reply #16 on: April 30, 2009, 05:17:02 AM »
I have a site list that is not cached ms is not in the list neither is testmy.net I added them and it did not make a difference.
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« Reply #17 on: April 30, 2009, 08:31:02 AM »
Here is 2 screens of me downloading vista sp1 showing 2.3mb/s
I still cannot figure out how to get the speed test to run at the same with the proxy enabled.
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« Reply #18 on: April 30, 2009, 08:53:08 AM »
 Do a trace route to the proxy website, find out where it is.
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« Reply #19 on: April 30, 2009, 09:01:21 AM »
Its not a proxy web site. Its a proxy server running on my ipcop locally.

The proxy is a squid proxy server....

I use it for web content filtering and web caching... so we use less bandwidth...
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« Reply #20 on: April 30, 2009, 09:11:05 AM »
Quote from: instabin on April 30, 2009, 09:01:21 AM
Its not a proxy web site. Its a proxy server running on my ipcop locally.

The proxy is a squid proxy server....

I use it for web content filtering and web caching... so we use less bandwidth...
I would have known that if i would have informed myself about it like I had intentions of it.  I have very little experience with squid, but some.

 Well it's obvious that this is much more then a caching issue, I have to ask though, if your goal is to use less bandwidth, my question would be is this located on your machine, or do you have it set up on a separate machine that is used as a router / firewall and such.  I have a machine that (is not in use right now ) that runs specifically as a router / firewall.  The more security I set, the slower it became. Cache or not.

 
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« Reply #21 on: April 30, 2009, 09:26:54 AM »
Setup as stated before
SMC Cable modem from Comcast ---->
IPcop with web proxy, urlfiltering, and block out traffic (P4 3.0GHz w/ 1GB RAM) Yes this is a seperate machine) ---->
Internal network

The only thing i see bandwidth droped or limited on is the testmy.net speed test....

Here is the cpu and memory usage graphs. The large spike in the cpu with the large drop in mem usage are b/c of scheduled reboots.
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« Reply #22 on: April 30, 2009, 09:39:19 AM »
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Microsoft use the Microsoft web server (IIS) as a basis for their proxy server component, and Microsoft proxy thus only accepts incoming proxy request on port 80. If you are installing a Squid system to replace either CERN, Apache or IIS running in both web-server and cache-server modes on the same port, you will have to set http_port to 80. Squid is written only as a high-performance proxy server, so there is no way for it to function as a web server, since Squid has no support for reading files from a local disk, running CGI scripts and so forth. There is, however, a workaround.
If you have both services running on the same port, and you cannot change your client PCs, do not despair. Squid can accept requests in web-server format and forward them to another server. If you have only one machine, and you can get your web server software to accept incoming requests on a non-default port (for example 81), Squid can be configured to forward incoming web requests to that port. This is called accelerator mode (since its initial purpose was to speed up very slow web servers). Squid effectively does some translation on the original request, and then simply acts as if the request were a proxy request and connects to the host: the fact that it's not a remote host is irrelevant. Accelerator mode is discussed in more detail in chapter 9. Until then, get Squid installed and running on another port, and work your way through the first couple of chapters of this book, until you have a working pilot-phase system. Once Squid is stable and tested you can move on to changing web server settings.

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« Reply #23 on: April 30, 2009, 10:19:00 AM »
That has nothing to do with my setup

Your quoted text looks like its concerning Microsoft's internet gateway solution witch I do not have.

Since my proxy server is also my gateway here is how it works.

Request going out of my network on port 80 are rerouted to the proxy server on port 8080
The proxy server request the page from the internet then filters any "bad" address and send it on the the requesting computer

Also the block out traffic add-on lets me block all outgoing traffic (except ports that I allow) so that ppl cannot use torrents or limewire.

Anyway Im still trying to figure out why I only have problems with testmy.net when the proxy is enable and not having issues with any other sites.
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« Reply #24 on: May 01, 2009, 09:20:50 AM »
Quote from: instabin on April 30, 2009, 10:19:00 AM
That has nothing to do with my setup

Your quoted text looks like its concerning Microsoft's internet gateway solution witch I do not have.

Since my proxy server is also my gateway here is how it works.

Request going out of my network on port 80 are rerouted to the proxy server on port 8080
The proxy server request the page from the internet then filters any "bad" address and send it on the the requesting computer

Also the block out traffic add-on lets me block all outgoing traffic (except ports that I allow) so that ppl cannot use torrents or limewire.

Anyway Im still trying to figure out why I only have problems with testmy.net when the proxy is enable and not having issues with any other sites.
The link is actually from the "squid" configuration help page.  I was under the influence that was your issue.

 Well if testmy.net is the site your having an issue with,try logging out, and testing, let me know what the results are.
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« Reply #25 on: May 04, 2009, 06:00:40 AM »
I get the same results when either way.

The only way I get different results is if I turn off the proxy service on my ipcop
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« Reply #26 on: May 04, 2009, 09:52:39 PM »
 Just thinking earlier, I know it's a simplistic and possibly not relevant, but make sure there's no auto negotiations between your NIC's, set them to full 100,  sometimes (as I remember ) will "sometimes" auto config them to 100 half duplex, I remember this happened only on occasion when set to auto negotiation.

Might want to check that you don't have a subpar card in there that just happens to get the route !? The other ones might be ok.

 Are your clients, and squid using the same port ?

 I'm also wondering if the test here cannot be cached, so as normal squid caches on the first load, so each time , is like the first time......hmmmm

 I'm just throwing things out there, havent really had time to do much anything other then thinking about it. 
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« Reply #27 on: May 14, 2009, 12:20:45 AM »
hi,, here is my two cents,, by using the proxy, your going thru the server on which it is held and not directly to the internet backbone on your business account.  so the proxy is NOT EXCLUSIVE to you, so this will slow speeds down because it is a shared server. you should get better speeds late at night then during the day..
also i see little point in using the proxy as you have the employees access to certain items already blocked.
how many computers share the internet access route? if 4 then you need to divide 16 by 4 which is 4 and deduct 20% of that for what microsoft keeps open for its updates and file server access.. so 3megs is about right,,
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« Reply #28 on: June 09, 2009, 11:41:05 AM »
The proxy is exclusive to me because it runs local on my network.
Im not accessing a anno proxy some where on the internet.
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« Reply #29 on: June 09, 2009, 01:08:44 PM »
***Update***
The situation has changed.
Comcast came out today to b/c we were getting disconnected yesterday.
signal to the modem was 14.x and upstream signal was 58.x

The fist Comcast guy had to call in a second. When the second came he said he had to reconfigure every node from the fiber to our door.
Now signal to the modem is 4.x and 48.x

Now the problem I have is that I cant get faster than 8.x Mbits/s on the download speed test from testmy.net
I can how ever download a file from microsoft at 2.3MBytes/s witch translates into 16Mbits/s
If I do a speed test at speakeasy.net it shows 16Mbits/s Its only test.net that shows 8.
Also the proxy server does not affect the speed test right now. I can hook straight to the modem and get the same results.
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