Web Proxy stuff!
Poorboy8
When you send out a request for information, web page etc etc etc you send
packets of information to a source that goes out to the internet to find it.
Your proxy settings determine weither or not you hit the proxy or an inet
gateway. If you have your web proxy setting up and running and you visit
popular pages (yahoo, exite, cnn, msn) a lot then you should see very good
performance, and this is why................The web proxy generally stores
sites that are hit the most, it will automatically keep a queue of the most
popular pages being hit over a certain period of time and automatically go
out and get them when an update occurs. This means when you ask for that
page it elimates unecessary hops over the internet to obtain it therefore
decreaseing download time. One way you can tell your web proxy settings are
working is if weither or not the page is painted in your web browser or if
it gets there all in one shot. In general though if you keep your web proxy
settings almost all pages that you request will hit your screen in one
shot, the reason being is that your request is retrieved by the web proxy
then sent back to you in one big file so to say. If you dont use your web
proxy settings then all your pages will either be grabbed from cached data
on your hd or gotten file by file directly from the internet, which can
either be slow or fast depending on what your going after. If there are any
other questions dont hesitate to ask, I will try to answer as best as
possible.
DPCNOC
