[isp-caching] Re: Compressing Caching server - Propel / Sliptstream

["Support\(at\)inet2000.com" <support@...>]

Yes, thank you.  We downloaded and played with Rabbit and it's pretty much
the kind of thing we are looking for.  We had pretty wonky results, with
some graphics being chopped in half and some page layout's changed, but
perhaps that was a setting that we had wrong.  We're continuing to look at
it, along with 50 other things at the same time.  :-)

- Todd

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Blaine Fleming" <groups@...>
To: <isp-caching@isp-caching.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 8:29 PM
Subject: [isp-caching] Re: Compressing Caching server - Propel / Sliptstream


> I haven't seen any mention of free, open-source software yet so I thought
I
> would mention RabbIT Web Proxy.  It was created in Java and I have run it
> as a production server on *NIX and Windows boxen.  Free, open-source,
cross
> platform and overall pretty clean.  The link for it is:
>
> http://www.khelekore.org/rabbit/
>
> I decided early in the process that the headaches of caching were not
worth
> it.  Since there was more than enough available upstream bandwidth, I
> turned off the caching engine and just used the compression engine.  Grabs
> a new copy of a site with every query and sends back a compressed version
> to the client.  Beautiful.
>
> --Blaine
>
>
> At 12:02 PM 3/30/2004, you wrote:
> >Hello.  I know many of you guys are still Dial-up providers,
> >and you are the most knowledgeable (and handsome!)
> >group of guys I know, so I thought I'd ask my question
> >here.  :-)  I hope no one from the WISP-Equipment list
> >reads this, because I used pretty much the same line
> >to suck up to those guys a second ago!  :-)
> >
> >I'm looking for dial-up acceleration software, something
> >like Propel or Slipstream.  We've used a trial of Miliki
> >iNET accelerator from Quikcat.com, and are very pleased
> >with the difference it makes.  It basically takes graphics
> >that are in web pages, and re-compresses them in a lossy
> >way to reduce their size greatly.  This makes them a but
> >poorer quality, but also makes them 1/4 the size and 4 times
> >faster in some cases. Of course it does not speed up MP3
> >download or anything else, but it does dramatically speed
> >up browsing.  The issue is these are all server / client based
> >and the servers in these cases are theirs - and our clients
> >would have to pay monthly subscriptions to Propel or Miliki.
> >I'm looking for a server that I can download and run here,
> >something Open Source or something we can purchase
> >for a reasonable amount of money for a small dialup ISP.
> >
> >I would have thought that there would be a Squid component
> >that would do this, or some other caching proxy server that
> >would compress the data before it handed it back out, but
> >nothing I can find seems to do it.
> >
> >So, any help would be appreciated.  From the results we've
> >seen with miliki, it's well worth doing this for both dialup and
> >for our wireless customers.  Even the less aggressive speed
> >settings are very noticeable and would save lots of bandwidth,
> >yet have very little loss in visual quality.  Any help or comments
> >would be appreciated.
> >
> >- Todd Chamberlain
> >
> >
> >




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