I get 12M at home. I can't figure out why a school can't come up with $100/mo and a cable line. <br><br>Oh. school. $$ <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 4:08 PM, david w. millians <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:millia@panix.com">millia@panix.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On 9/29/2010 3:18 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> schools really need a proxy like squid. One person hits a site and then<br>
> 30 others hit the same site. Squid will (in this example) cut the used<br>
> bandwidth to about 1/30 as the first hit is cached. Saw this in action<br>
> during the APS Linux thin client project. bandwidth is scarce in schools<br>
> and not having a caching proxy is just a bad idea.<br>
<br>
</div>I don't have any in my service area that don't have a proxy. Before the<br>
majority of mine all had fiber between the bulk of their schools-<br>
there's a couple that have wireless links because of multiple carriers<br>
and that mess, and a few that have no choice but phone-line based<br>
solutions- I had a few that used dual-level proxies, too. Since they<br>
had, say, 768k/sec back to the board office, we put proxies in local to<br>
save both internal and external slowness. This was when a district would<br>
have 1 T1 line.<br>
<br>
Of course, back then, squid was VERY scary to configure. Not so much<br>
anymore. I suspect some of the boxes they've paid for are indeed squid.<br>
<br>
The last time I saw some stats, schools average about 40% cache hits. It<br>
helps, of course, but 3megs is still not that much for a whole school.<br>
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