Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I/net server throttling
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2012 03:30:30
Message-Id: CAC=wYCEnRWvgYn-dnHh6g+D76bx5Hf2ZqjcO47gW47gPxgOBeA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] I/net server throttling by Michael Mol
1 > One thing you might be able to do is pay $5/mo or so for a Linux VM at
2 > some VPS provider, install and configure Squid, and bounce your own
3 > traffic off of it. Squid will pull down the file faster than you, and
4 > won't impose a connection time limit on you. (Unless you configure it
5 > to do so...)
6
7 And you could connect to that squid using an ssh tunnel with
8 compression enabled at its maximum level. Otherwise the gzip ecap
9 module https://code.google.com/p/squid-ecap-gzip/ may help a little
10 but IIRC it only compresses text eg plain, html etc.