[squid-users] Question on throughput

[Jacques Kruger]

Hi,

I've implemented my fair share of squid proxies over the past couple of years and I've always been able to find a solution in the mail archive, but this time around I'm stumped. This is the first time I've used squid with a fast (in our context) internet connection, specifically a 4G connection that the provider claims can run up to 100Mbps. Claims aside, my real-world testing is not what I'm expecting. I've used two squid instances, one on PFsence (2.7.9) and one on Windows (2.7Stable8) and compared the throughput to a connection without squid and what I've found is, when testing with www.speedtest.net<http://www.speedtest.net> the throughput is roughly half with squid compared to a direct connection. I've left to configuration pretty much default and have tried to tweak, both without success.

What are the directives that have the most effect on throughput?

Regards,

Jacques Kruger
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