Posted by : Unknown Sunday, 2 June 2013

Speed up your

internet using SQUID

proxy on WINDOWS

So what is squid or a caching
proxy in general? The squid
website says
Squid is a caching proxy for the
Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS,
FTP, and more. Itreduces
bandwidth and improves
response times by caching and
reusing frequently-requested
web pages.
So why would you want to use
it? From my experience, if you
are in any ofthe following
situations:
* You want your browsing to be
snappy in general (helps on
cable/ADSL too!)
* You are shaped and want
better performance when
browsing your frequently-
visited sites
* You are about to get shaped
and want to reduce your quota
consumption
* You are on a flaky, high-
latency or slow connection (e.g.
laptop Wi-Fi, wireless
broadband, dial-up)
While it is true that your web-
browser most definitely has an
internal cache, you'll likely get
a noticeable improvement in
perceived latency due to
squid's DNS caching. On top of
that, I find squid picks up 25%
of traffic that my install of
Firefox doesn't cache, misses or
expires.
:: Downloading squid for
Windows:: http://zyan.me/CjxnJ
Now its time to preparing
squid...
First extract squid on c:/ so that
so that all of the files appear
under c:\squid (and not c:\squid
\squid)
.
otherwise it will not
work...anymore...
then open the cmd from the
start menu..and if u r using win
7 then..u have to run the cmd in
administrator..
after that navigate to c:\squid
\sbin
in cmd ..that means u hav to
wright as following in cmd..
cd /d c:\squid\sbin
then Run: squid -z
then configure the firefox...or ur
default browser to
127.0.0.1:3128
Now try to view a website. It
should fail.
That's good, it just means
there's nothing already running
on squid's port, which is what
we want. We can now get the
proxy up and running in the
next section
now its time to run the proxy....
With the prompt still open, run:
squid -X
u hav now the fastest browsing
with dns cache...
if u will wish to run the squid on
windows start ...
Type again with the prompt still
open, run: squid -i -n squid -O -D
Enjoy!!!