I do apologise for the lack of information. I did a tracert on both the squid and on a client and the results are as follows: Squid: Squidoz:/home/netsnap # traceroute 8.8.8.8 traceroute to 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets using UDP 1 172.16.11.1 (172.16.11.1) 0.092 ms 0.062 ms 0.058 ms 2 41.77.173.25 (41.77.173.25) 8.744 ms 10.225 ms 10.454 ms 3 10.80.80.1 (10.80.80.1) 10.201 ms 9.865 ms 8.879 ms 4 41.77.168.5 (41.77.168.5) 9.202 ms 9.340 ms 7.091 ms 5 41.75.82.21 (41.75.82.21) 15.290 ms 16.742 ms 16.180 ms 6 41.75.80.57 (41.75.80.57) 16.379 ms 17.789 ms 17.623 ms 7 if-01.NG-IXP-PR-01.ngn.mainonecable.com (41.75.80.58) 17.201 ms 15.317 ms 14.900 ms 8 google-lagos.ixp.net.ng (196.216.148.25) 108.288 ms 118.450 ms 118.093 ms 9 72.14.234.18 (72.14.234.18) 117.981 ms 116.966 ms 116.130 ms 10 72.14.234.16 (72.14.234.16) 114.544 ms 109.718 ms 113.539 ms 11 209.85.245.2 (209.85.245.2) 107.325 ms 106.911 ms 107.526 ms 12 66.249.95.173 (66.249.95.173) 113.046 ms 112.618 ms 72.14.242.166 (72.14.242.166) 116.820 ms 13 google-public-dns-a.google.com (8.8.8.8) 116.412 ms 209.85.250.165 (209.85.250.165) 116.356 ms google-public-dns-a.google.com (8.8.8.8) 122.358 ms Client: C:\Users\Gu8y>tracert 8.8.8.8 Tracing route to google-public-dns-a.google.com [8.8.8.8] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 10.5.50.1 2 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.50.1 3 2 ms 2 ms 1 ms 172.16.11.1 4 10 ms 9 ms 7 ms 41.77.173.25 5 9 ms 13 ms 10 ms 10.80.80.1 6 18 ms 19 ms 9 ms 41.77.168.5 7 14 ms 12 ms 8 ms 41.75.82.21 8 12 ms 13 ms 8 ms 41.75.80.57 9 10 ms 8 ms 19 ms if-01.ng-ixp-pr-01.ngn.mainonecable.com [41.75. 0.58] 10 102 ms 105 ms 116 ms google-lagos.ixp.net.ng [196.216.148.25] 11 108 ms 118 ms 103 ms 72.14.234.18 12 103 ms 104 ms 115 ms 72.14.234.16 13 114 ms 106 ms 103 ms 209.85.253.94 14 111 ms 114 ms 115 ms 72.14.242.166 15 113 ms 116 ms 109 ms 209.85.250.165 16 * * * Request timed out. 17 109 ms 110 ms 109 ms google-public-dns-a.google.com [8.8.8.8] Trace complete. I hope this is better? From: Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz Date: 2014-05-25 01:37 To: seyiakinboboye CC: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Squid not working Information is almost useless do a tcptraceroute from users pc to squid and to any website, you will find where it is the delay 2014-05-24 20:01 GMT-04:00 Oluseyi Akinboboye <seyiakinboboye@xxxxxxxxx>: > Hi, > > I would like to ask for help here as i am totally lost! > > I have what i consider a simple network, it is as follows; > > Internet source>>Gateway>>Squid>>Mikrotik>>Netequalizer>>Switch>>Users > The issue i have is as follows: > > 1. If i browse on the squid machine itself it is very fast and i have alot of activity on the tail when i monitor it. But when i try browsing from the clients its much slower and there is no activity on the tail whatsoever! > 2. Gmail almost never opens on the network as a result of this. > > I would appreciate all the help i can get here. > > Thank you.