Squid Speeds

I have a strange situation.. ( I am in New Zealand)
We have a squid proxy and we try and got most users onto it..
If users use our proxy server they can get 3-4K/sec peak time (and from the
office I can get 20K/sec)
But if we point our proxy to use a parent one (xtra's proxy in New Zealand)
I can get 4-5K/sec from a dialup and 30-40K/sec from the office here)
Any if they don't use the proxy server they get 1-2K/sec and from the office
about 10K/sec
Anyone have any idea why is we point our proxy server towards another we get
much faster rates (on the same bandwidth to the provider)

Copy of relivant config (removed other stuff) (this machine has 2 ip
addresses (202.49.244.8/210.55.192.29)
It is set always to use the xtra proxy server (a squid proxy server) except
for local addresses(xtra wont' allow icp yet)

http_port 3128
icp_port 3130
tcp_outgoing_address 210.55.192.29
udp_outgoing_address 210.55.192.29
cache_peer proxy.xtra.co.nz parent 8080 8081 no-query default
cache_mem 8 MB
acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
memory_pools off
acl 244net src 202.49.244.0/255.255.255.0
http_access allow 244net
acl local-servers dstdomain igrin.co.nz
acl local-servers-244 dst 202.49.244.0/255.255.255.0
acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
never_direct deny local-servers
never_direct deny local-servers-244
never_direct allow all

Thanks
Craig Whitmore
iGRIN Internet
Received on Mon Jan 10 2000 - 20:12:35 MST