Re: [squid-users] Question about bandwith

fre 2007-03-16 klockan 11:58 +0100 skrev Egoitz Aurrekoetxea:
> Hi mates,
>
> Well let's see if I have and squid proxy that is connected to Internet with
> 4 MB cable modem... and have in the other way retrieving objects from cache
> a 56 kbps connection... will squid bring for example from Internet an iso of
> a dvd at 4 mb speed and buffer it for passing to 56kbps connection or

Squid buffers only a small part of the object. About 16KB internally
plus the buffering done by TCP. So for large objects it will fetch at
56kbps due to being throttled by the client speed.

Regards
Henrik