486 Proxy Server?

I've got a cable modem, but started thinking that... I have multiple computers I use for surfing the web. Especially for larger files, it sometimes seems like I could benefit a lot from having a proxy server.

So I'm downloading squid onto a 486. But it's just now occuring to me as I try to download/install stuff... That this machine is SLOW. Even when you login, you can hear the disk spin up. (My desktop machine has a gig of RAM and caches a lot of files in unused RAM. The 486 has 32 MB.) So at what point does it become quicker to download at 3 Mbps again, as opposed to 100 Mbps, but limited by a slow hard drive on an ancient box?

Does anyone have experience running squid on a 486? Is it worthwhile?

 

 

 

 

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