Proxy Internet Access With Squid
In addition to controlling access to the Internet at the application level, Squid can also "speed up" Internet access by caching pages you have already visited so they can be retrieved from your proxy server, rather than an Internet server. This provides a speed increase for two reasons:
1. It is very likely that you have a faster connection (Ethernet) to your proxy server than you do to the Internet (T1/DSL/Modem).
2. There is less traffic between you and your proxy server than there is on the Internet. This is especially true for Web pages on different continents.
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