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On 18/01/2012 10:20 p.m., Rajeev Bansal wrote:
Hi All,

  I need some information, actually I am tying to use squid on my
gateway computer, so that it can help me in HTTP/FTP traffic
acceleration. I am not looking for HTTP pipelining acceleration,as in
my scenario I will be downloading the huge amount of data over the
HTTP/FTP instead of simple webpage browsing. So I thought, to enhance
the Squid, in such a way that at WAN side, squid can open the multiple
TCP connections and download the requested data faster and can pass it
to the client who initiated the download request. Theoretically it
feels like opening multiple connections at the WAN side to web server,
should help in HTTP download acceleration, but I am not sure if
practically it will really help. If someone has, some idea please
throw some light on it.


Thanks,
Rajeev

Um. Squid is not advertised as an accelerator and there is no speed acceleration as such in Squid. Quite the opposite at times.

What Squid does is HTTP *optimization* as it proxies. Any speed increase is only a side effect of de-duplicating or caching requests from multiple users down into fewer unique requests to the backend. Or making use of HTTP features to avoid TCP delays.

That can reduce the total bandwidth used and make it *seem* faster to the repeat visitors who get a local response based on some earlier cached request. But with a proxy dedicated to one suer there is often very little acceleration to be found. The modern browsers can do as much or more than Squid for one user.

Lookup how your browser configures its "connections to server" setting. That will do what you want regardless of whether you use Squid or not.

Amos


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