Now that our once good rural adsl connection is effectively broken because of too many users connected with no hope of any upgraded service forthcoming, I am looking at moving to some kind of wireless internet solution. As data is typically more expensive and with smaller caps, I am thinking it would be sensible to install a caching proxy into my home network as a means of reducing download data, especially considering the various updates consumed by 3 or 4 pc's. We no longer have any kids at home, so parental control is not a requirement, just the data caching. What recomendations/opinions/suggestions are out there for what I have in mind? Minimum machine specs, software, etc. Pros and cons for transparent proxy? I have one machine that is always on. I use it for network storage, print server, also web and ftp serving. Would I be able to run a proxy server on this machine as well? All comments and suggestions welcome. Cheers, Colin
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