proxy server with compression.

[Thenior]

I live in a rural location, using high-latency wireless off a local ISP's tower. My speed tests vary day to day, but I can get around 1Mb up/down. The problem is, I work with large files, uploading and downloading (HD videos, development software, etc.). It can be painful to wait sometimes. Plus I do some side contract game development, and it can be very difficult to playtest with other developers (200ms ping is a good day for me).

Now, obviously it's not going to be easy to solve the latency problem without different wireless hardware. But speedwise, I am wondering if I can use some kind of compression technology on a proxy.

For instance, my work computer has full access to a 26Mb down, 10Mb up connection, that is totally unused at night and the weekends. If I could run some kind of compression technology on our server, and use it as a proxy to route to my home computer, I could stand to gain some major speed. I realize that by bogging down a system with compression, I could potentially lose whatever speed gain I had. But the proxy server is a quad core xeon, and the receiving computer is a pretty decent i7 computer, so that shouldn't be a concern.

I found http://toonel.net/ but it seems more geared toward very slow narrowband users, like dial-up. Plus, I would prefer to just be able to point my browser to a proxy server, rather then install software on my client machine.

[Thenior]

So after looking into it some, it looks like it is pretty easy to setup a PPTP VPN server via Windows 7. However, I wondering if they provides significant compression?

[Krom]

HD video and audio are not going to compress at all by nature, attempting to use a proxy for it will make no difference for that. Typically all these narrow band boosters do is recompress jpeg images to lower quality and run on the fly gzip compression on text, they don't do anything for stuff beyond standard web browsing and even that is pretty limited.