Proxy
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- This page is about Carleton's Internet proxy. A proxy is also someone who acts on your behalf, as in Room Draw.
Carleton College uses a proxy that can increase Internet speed for those connecting on ResNet (that is, residential access for students).
What is the proxy?
A proxy is a computer that speeds up internet access for other computers by caching popular requests. For example, nearly every student visits Google many times per day. It would be horribly inefficient for every student's computer to fetch the Google webpage from their off-campus server every time they want to search for something. The proxy alleviates this problem by storing a copy of Google's website and serving it up to students when they request it. This is much faster than accessing it from Google's own servers every time, and it saves bandwith for other traffic.
How to use the proxy
- Open up your browser.
- Now, it's time to set your browser to use proxy.carleton.edu on port 3128 as an HTTP and FTP proxy
- If you use Firefox, select the Tools menu, then Options. Click the "Connection Settings" button and enter proxy.carleton.edu and port 3128 for both the HTTP and FTP proxy.
- If you use Internet Explorer, you should probably use Firefox anyhow, but to set up the proxy in IE, select the Tools menu, then Internet Options. Select the Connections tab and then Lan Settings. Check the Use a proxy... box and then click the Advanced button. Enter proxy.carleton.edu on port 3128 for both HTTP and FTP.
- For any browser (Firefox, IE, Safari, etc.) you should make sure to enter carleton.edu as an exception to the proxy.
External links
- How to use the proxy on a Mac - A friendly page provided by CarlMug
