Make your Internet Browser Much Faster.

[johnrrogers]

I have posted this in the General section too but I figured it would be seen here too. When you connect to a web site such as this one all internet browsers only use one connection which is a standard. This can be overridden and if you use 16 or 32 or even 64 as a setting then web pages, especially those with lots of graphics and picts will be much faster. I haves tested it for a while and it works great. Here are the instructions, but if you do not feel comfortable editing the registry then don't try it. Note, this is for Windows XP and IE 6 or later only.


Select "start" -> "Run"->type in "regedit" and press enter

Find the following keys

[HKEY_USERS.DEFAULT, Software, Microsoft, Windows, CurrentVersion, Internet Settings]

Hight light Internet Settings then Right-Click then New "dword value" name it "MaxConnectionsPerServer"
double-click the new entry and enter a value 16 or 32 then save


[HKEY_CURRENT_USER, Software, Microsoft, Windows, CurrentVersion, Internet Settings]

Hight light Internet Settings then Right-Click then New "dword value " name it "MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server"
double-click the new entry and enter a value 16 or 32

exit regedit

restart the IE browser, should be much faster

 

[Scooter]

Hey, it works!!! Thanks.

 

[Scarlet_Nape]

Very cool tweak, John!
I'm a Firefox user, so it doesn't apply for me. But, I will share with others still using IE.

 

[bushpilot]

its not an IE specific setting...the MaxConnectionsPerServer will
be used w/ any http (browser) connection...so it will indeed
provide some POTENTIAL increase in "browser performance"

 

[RoyBoy]

Very cool tweak, John!
I'm a Firefox user, so it doesn't apply for me. But, I will share with others still using IE.

There is a similar one for Firefox. Or just get the Fasterfox plugin

 

[johnrrogers]

I think FireFox actually have a pull down menu setting that can do the same thing.

 

[bushpilot]

this is not a BRAND specific enhancment it will work for ANY browser
its HTTP specific not IE or FIREFOX specific

 

[JimmyDee]

I just did this modification and already had the 2 new dwords named "MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server" and "MaxConnectionsPerServer" They already had a value of 4. I am using Firefox 2 and added the FasterFox add on some time ago. I wonder if that add on gave me these settings. I changed them to 32 and gained a small improvement but I think if I were going from default of 1, there would be a much greater gain.
Its worth doing and is a great suggestion.
Jim

 

[BamaSixGun]

WOW, what a diff.

 

[mp18d]

Sweeet!!!!!