Bob Goodwin: +AD4 So it looks like my ISP is what it is and I probably can't change +AD4 things without degrading the service I have now which is quite good +AD4 then it works. Their are minor glitches that I have not been able to +AD4 assign the blame for, it occasionally requires re-booting either the +AD4 Viasat +ACI-modem+ACI or my router, or both amidst a lot of confusion with +AD4 my daughter trying to do something important to her on her Mac +AD4 downstairs. Proxying, of one kind or another, seems to be a common approach for dealing with an inadequate network (network bandwidth, latency, et cetera), rather than improving the actual problem. In your ISP's case, it sounds like having to go through satellites is the main reason - they have a significant propagation delay. I've use an ISP that went through one, before, and it was quite awful. Using my own DNS helped, because their DNS serving was even slower than the rest of their traffic. Proxying can only speed things up, for you, if you access something that someone else has already accessed before you. +ACo-And+ACo if that data is cacheable. If it's not cacheable, or you're always getting new data, then it can't speed things up. In fact, you get an even slower response, as the proxy has to fetch it, first, then you get it next. I've been on ISPs that have introduced transparent proxies, and my experience is that it doesn't improve things. Much of the web isn't cacheable. On the other hand, they can be useful in a LAN. Windows updates, for instance, were a hell of a lot quicker on the second PC to do its updates. The first one dragged them into the proxy's cache, the second PC got them from the cache. And when you're in an office where someone passes around a link for others to look at, they get the same speed benefit. Your LAN is generally much faster than your connection to your ISP, so that bottleneck is avoided with your own caching proxy, but not with an external one. Even more so if the external one is badly implemented, or overloaded with too many clients. Chances are that if your ISP is proxying DNS, then they may be proxying HTTP traffic. So, if you were to bypass their DNS proxy, you might also have to bypass their HTTP one. That'd require an external, better, proxy. The technique being how dissidents bypass government filtering. If it's just one or two specific sites that are continual problems with the proxying, you might try mentioning them to your ISP. Dynamic sites, ones where the content of the pages are continually changing, like those doing sales and auctions, shouldn't be cached. Your ISP may be able to change parameters for how they handle such things. They've probably, already, had to treat sites like ebay differently than other static sites. But they won't know about other more obscure sites. If you're resigned to having to reset every now and then, why not schedule it regularly? e.g. Unplug your modem and/or router for a few minutes while your making breakfast, each morning. Or some other time that you're highly unlikely to be using the internet. See if that makes any difference to network reliability over a few weeks. -- +AFs-tim+AEA-localhost +AH4AXQAk uname -rsvp Linux 3.6.2-4.fc17.x86+AF8-64 +ACM-1 SMP Wed Oct 17 02:43:21 UTC 2012 x86+AF8-64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists.
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