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want to setup a caching proxy, what should i be looking at?

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Rifter

Lifer
So as many of you probably noticed from the hughe thread in OT Canada is getting screwed with internet caps. My current ISP is unlimited but i will be out of contract in a year and want to plan for when i need to limit my useage. I already talked with my current ISP and they have switched all there plans already to plans with caps so after my year im screwed. I current use 100-300GB a month which is 4-12 times what the caps on the lower end/price plans are(which is what im paying now, second lowest plan but with no limit). Im not going to switch to a high price plan unless i HAVE to as this is BS.


Im already running a home server with ubuntu server to handle all my file/print sharing as well as traffic shaping(QOS) and firewall/security. I will add a caching proxy to this machine as its installed as a transparent firewall so it is in the ideal location on my network to be a proxy server.


So im looking for suggestions on caching proxy programs, must run on ubuntu. Thanks for any input.
 
Squid is what you'd typically use.

However, a caching proxy probably won't help you that much. They don't typically cache dynamic pages or streaming media. You might save some on image downloads, but that's pretty low in the scope of things. If you're using 100-300gb per month, you're probably downloading a lot of binary files, most of which you're not going to need more than once.

But, squid is a free program, so all it'll cost you is time.
 
yeah i know its not going to make a huge differnce but every bit helps and ive got the hardware to make it happen so cost is zero.

Im also going to start downloading steam games only onto 1 comp then transferring via external drive to my laptop and HTPC, and the gf's comp. That will save me a TON of bandwidth, i mean 1 8GB steam game would currently take me 32GB to download to all 4 comps, that would put me over the 25GB cap by itself 🙁
 
Who is forcing caps on internet users in Canada? The gov't? Or the ISPs? Comcast, a cable ISP here in the US, already has a cap of 250GB/mo. Verizon, on the other hand, has no caps.
 
Arrgg.. this blows.... Been nice to not have any download cap here in eastern canada for bell aliant, no notice on there website yet, hopefully they wont add it.
 
I would not move to anyplace that had caps on internet, in fact i would move away from a place that had them. Thank you Charter for not doing that 😀
 
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