Please don't post your question to the list multiple times. BusyBoy wrote: > I have implemented Squid using WPAD and it's working nicely as far as > the Users are concenered. I have observed that when we use squid in > our browser , the download speed goes tremendously slow,, How slow is "tremendously slow"? Does explicitly configuring the client to use the proxy (instead of using WPAD) make a difference? > while without proxy configuration ,, the speed goes upto 40 Kbps. > also ,, I have not applied any delay_pools. Check to see if your system is having a memory or disk I/O bottleneck. Also, post your hardware configuration, squid.conf (without comments or blank lines), as well as the average and peak requests per second Adam.