'm working for an ISP company and I'm using squid as a cache engine for the first time. when a dial-up user downloads a cached file originally form a local server, the download rate is 10 kbps, but if the origin server is anywhere else on the Internet the download rate of a previously cached file will be reduced to 5 kbps or even less. (in both cases squid indicates a successful TCP_HIT). I've tested that several times on different files from different sites. and I'm getting always the same results. I've tried to test it in both online and offline modes. and nothing has changed (except that squid logs the hits as TCP_OFFLINE_HIT/200 instead of TCP_HIT/200) Why the two files are not downloaded with the same rate, keeping in mind that they are both cached and served from the same proxy/cache server (squid)? Can anyone help me to solve it?
