[Sussex] Proxy servers

[Andrew Guard]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Fautley [mailto:jon at geekpeople.net]
> Sent: 27 February 2003 11:22
> To: sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Sussex] Proxy servers

> If it's bandwidth limitation, theres all sorts of funky stuff that can
> be done with traffic shaping under the 2.4 kernel. If you're running a
> linux firewall...

An Cisco is doing all that work (This was brought before I joined here).  

The real issue is we are using an Satellite connection (uplink/downlink).
And trying to make it seem to everyone it working faster ;).  The lag which
this create is massive i.e. at least 750ms.