Wingate slowing down downloads and videos, Extremly

[Rebk360]

Okay, so my dad uses wingate for a proxy to monitor everything and prevent viruses from breaching us, blah blah blah, you know.

wingate seems to have a weird mind of its own with downloads and videos(like youtube) 3 days ago everything was working fine, but now...theres problems
When you want ot download anything it basicly scans the whole download(i think) in the slowest fashion ever, and if its higher than 70mb download? forget it, the download will time out and wont work. same thing with videos, 2min video takes 2mins to even start loading it.

the onlything that has worked was turning off the firewall, but my dad doesnt want to have it resolved that way, and wont leave the firewall off.

This problem is reoccuring, for a month the internet will be fine, and then the internet just stops working for months
Any help on this?

[logan]

When you want ot download anything it basicly scans the whole download(i think)

You're spot on there. The data scanning plugins require a whole file before they are able to scan the file and make a decision on whether the file is safe to be passed on to the client. So WinGate downloads the file in it's entirety and scans it before any of the file is passed on. To the client, this will seem like a long delay before the download starts (stalled at 0%) and then a very rapid (practically instant) download from 0% to 100%. The time it takes to finish the downloads is actually no longer than if the download was performed directly, but this method of holding back the file does in nature break streaming of any sort.

However, all is not lost. There is a feature in WinGate called drip-feeding that solves this problem. Drip-feeding passes the first 75% of the file to the client as it is downloaded from the internet, but holds the last 25% back to give the data scanning plugins a chance to scan the entire file before completing the download. It still has the option to halt the download making the file on the client incomplete and (hopefully) corrupted as a result.

As the first 75% of the file is passed on as it is downloaded from the internet, this allows streaming to occur normally. You may notice a short pause at 75% of the file download while WinGate finishes getting the file and scanning it.

To enable drip-feeding:
1. Open GateKeeper and navigate to Services -> WWW Proxy Server -> Plugins
2. Enable "Drip-feed data to client if file bigger than X kB" (where X is customiseable)
3. Click OK to finalise the change.