The tweaks found below will increase the maximum simultaneous connections per page for faster browsing. I made this modification over a week ago in Firefox, and I have noticed increased performance.
Firefox Instructions
- Open Firefox
- Type about:config in the address bar
- Filter for ‘network‘
- Scroll to find network.http.pipelining - double click to set it to TRUE
- Double click pipelining.maxrequests and set value from ‘4′ to a higher value, like ‘10′ (I didn’t dare go any higher)
- Browse faster
Internet Explorer Instructions
- Go to START > RUN and type ‘regedit‘
- Select HKEY_CURRENT_USER
- Go to Software > Microsoft > Windows > Current Version > Internet Settings
- Locate MaxConnectionsPer1_OServer & MaxConnectionsPerServer
- Increase the values from default to a higher value, like 10 for both
- Close RegEdit (settings automatically saved)
- Browse Faster!
Obviously you can’t make up for slow servers or an overloaded internet connection, but this will certainly help out a lot of people! My pages are whizzing by after these mods. Good luck with your fast browsing!
I wanted to thank you for this upgrade. I don’t really understand how this contraption works, but I love when people can find out how to tweak things to make them work perfectly. I am flying through the internet ever since I upgraded my settings, and sites that I normally goto are loading up much faster than I can remember.
Yeah, isn’t that great? Some people will disagree with the change and some will even get upset claiming it hits the servers too hard and that its just not fair. The process alters the way that a client responds to a server by changing the pipelining configuration. HTTP pipelining is a technique in which multiple HTTP requests are written out to a single socket without waiting for the corresponding responses.
The pipelining of requests results in a dramatic improvement in page loading times, especially over high latency connections (such as satellite Internet connections).
Since it is usually possible to fit several HTTP requests in the same TCP packet, HTTP pipelining allows fewer TCP packets to be sent over the network, reducing network load. Your browser was set to pipeline 4 requests at once, we just upped that a little to improve your perceived performance. Make sense? Pretty cool huh?