Speed up the internet on your mac

I am always surprised that more people do not make themeselves aware of caching proxys.

Some like Dansguardian - http://www.macorchard.com/server/DansGuardian.php

use both squid and an internet filter that is ideal for homes and networks where you want to restrict internet use

Then there is Squidman, a brilliant and simple Mac Gui for the laest stable version of Squid cache proxy.
http://homepage.mac.com/adg/SquidMan/index.html

And finally there is Polipo, for macs this comes in the Polipostatusbar package:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/27613/polipostatusbar

OK you say but what on earth is a cache proxy

Its a facility in a proxy server that caches incoming Web pages on the hard disk. If the next page requested by a browser is already in the proxy cache, the page is retrieved locally instead of from the Internet. When proxy servers are used, the users' browsers must be configured to use the proxy server.

according to the cache now campaign - http://vancouver-webpages.com/CacheNow/

The concept is simple - when a Web page is requested, it is saved to disk. If it is required again, the disk copy is used. This technique is used in all modern browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer.

In a proxy cache, users request pages from a local server instead of direct from the source. The local server gets the page, saves it on disk and forwards it to the user. Subsequent requests from other users of the cache get the saved copy, which is much faster and does not consume Internet bandwidth.

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