Is "their" proxy pre-fetching pages?

[Headend]

I've noticed something strange today. When I first go to an international site it loads really slowly. However after a while the pages on the site seem to load quickly (even pages with lots of graphics - the type 'noone' likes[] ). First I thought I must have pre-fetching turned on (Mozilla has this feature), but I don't.

Could this be where all our international bandwidth is going? Anyone know how to test for this sort of thing?

Headend
Tower: Mintek (82) - Signal: 19% - Firmware: 5.0.1.60/A1 - 256k - Smoothwall and PPPoE

 

[arf9999]

Seems like a stupid thing for them to do. It has no advantage to them, only to their users, and we know their attitude to users. Pre-fetching always wastes bandwidth, as not every link from a page is used, and thus it is impossible to identify the next links that will be chosen - I can't see Sentech doing this.

IMO you're just browsing the same sites as noone, and you're seeing the pages that he has cached in the proxy []

 

[Headend]

Damn, noone must also have good taste...

On topic, I wouldn't put something like configuring pre-fetching past them. Afterall, we all know their other proxy configuration skills...

 

[loosecannon]

well we know for sure they are transparently proxing all http traffic and cewrtainaly the proxing/caching server (netcache) will try and cache all requests but i do not belive it pre loads any site you go to as this is detrimental to overall performance ...

if however this capability is now available in netcache the twits at sentech may have activated it ...