clamsrus

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Found a hint to speed up downloads...
Evidently XP will by default only download 2 files at a time....but with broadband you can force IE to do better with a reg tweak.


Open Start>Run>type 'regedit' and Enter........
drill down to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Internet Settings


Click the Edit menu,click New, click DWORD Value, and add a registry value called....

MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server enter ....highlight the new value and click Edit, Modify....Decimal base, with a value of 10


Add another DWORD value called
MaxConnectionsPerServer and similarly edit modify base Decimal value of 10
Close regedit

It has sped up load times dramatically....and I know lots of folks have grumbled that the WR pages are slow to load
Now mine goes like a streak of weasels pee
As a precaution backup your reg first of course.

VIVIX

I've seen that before somewhere...probably techtv, but what about Mozilla??? Huh??? Whatcha gonna doo about the thrilla zilla???? That's right, you got nottin on the zilla manilla thrilla. UMPH UMPH UMPH CHA CHA CHA UMPH UMPH CHA UMPH

You're like martha stuart in prison just full of suggestion and "good things"

Wilken

HAHHAAA...gotta love the Zilla.

3nigm4tic

Yeah is there a similar trick for Mozilla? I assume there's a way to access the registry for Mozilla too..?

wolf68k

Yes there is

In Firefox or Mozilla type about:config in the address bar
Basic Settings for ALL users
* Set the value of network.http.pipelining to "true".
* Set the value of network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to "8".
* Set the value of network.http.proxy.pipelining to "true"


Fast Broadband (Cable/DSL/LAN)
* Set the value of network.http.max-connections to "48".
* Set the value of network.http.max-connections-per-server to "16".
* Set the value of network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy to "16"
* Set the value of network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server to "8"


Slow Narrowband (Dialup)
* Set the value of network.http.max-connections-per-server to "8".
* Set the value of network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy to "8".
* Set the value of network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server to "4".
* Set the value of dom.disable_window_status_change to "true".



Source: http://forums.extremeoverclocking.c...ad.php?t=135522
I don't suggest the tweak they do of; Set the value of browser.xul.error_pages.enabled to "true" for me this was more annoying than helpful

3nigm4tic

anndddd there was this gem in the mozilla website explanation of pipelining


haha... only requests like GET HEAD can be pipelined

oh by the way... thanks a LOT for this, hopefully it'll speed things up

clamsrus

So I gather only ludites and N00Bs use XP....just like real men don't eat quiche....
I haven't been game to use differnt browsers or operating systems on my work machine!

Jabooty_3

just tried it, will spend some time looking around to see if it works

ButterMup

This is alarming news, as I use XP and I eat quiche.

Anyway, Mozilla makes me uncomfortable (while I have FireFox installed, I have used it all of once, and wasn't really impressed with it enough to bother tweaking it to my tastes), so I'm very much in the camp with the other folks who still use IE for the vast majority of their browsing.
While I already knew about this registry edit, and had changed my own connection limit ages ago, it's still extremely handy information.

If only XP SP2 didn't hard-code in a limit on the number of simultaneously open FTP ports, which was their ham-fisted way of crippling the peer-to-peer pandemic, I'd be all set.
Alas, this is far from a perfect world.

wolf68k

@Buttermup and anyone else still using IE
I felt the same way when it came to use FF. It took me some time to work my way toward it. But now it's all I use and I like it so much more.
I will admit there are some websites that don't look right, but that's because the creators are stupid and only formatted the site to work for IE and to hell with everyone else. This is also because they are sucked into the belief that there is no other browser out there other than IE.

If you are going to keep using IE, then yourself a HUGE favor and get Ad-Aware, Spybot and just as importantly SpywareBlaster.
Ad-Aware and Spybot we all know will scan your system and remove ad&spyware from your system, however this is also of course after the fact they have already been installed.
SpywareBlaster however will help to keep out most what gets installed while your surfing that you didn't know was being installed. Plus it'll add a list of cookies to IE (and FF/Mozilla/Netscape) to be blocked which is also helpful.

I surf a lot, even going to shady porn and crack/warez type sites where a lot of that dialers, toolbars and other nastys come from, not that they don't come from other "safer" sites, and with SpywareBlaster I could see a noticable difference.
Before I would normally end up with something after scanning with Ad-Aware and Spybot, even if it was just CometCursor or something else minor like that.
With SpywareBlaster it was just a few cookies.

Since switching to FF, no nasty cookies let alone any spyware. Although Ad-Aware and Spybot can't scan FF's cookie file for nasty cookies, but then since I use an extension called CookieCuller which will only keep the cookies I set to protect and remove all of the other each time FF opens, whatever bad cookies do get it don't last all that long.

HIJACKER

The only things I do on the web is surf for a few tidbits on the web through yahoo, check my work email, and get on Webrats.

If I'm ever out hunting down passwords or cracks or anything else like that, I'll use Firefox.

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clamsrus

Thanks Guys....appreciate your input

ButterMup

Good call. I recommend AdAware and SpyBot to everyone I possibly can, for exactly those reasons. IE isn't exactly the most secure browser out there, and being the most popular choice by far also makes it the most commonly exploited.
I've never used SpywareBlaster, but I might look into it - having three different anti-spyware programs installed smacks a bit of borderline paranioa to me, but I know some people who have installed, literally, a dozen...all of which are set to run on startup and then allocate themselves as TSRs (and they wonder why it takes 5 minutes to boot their computers and why everything runs so goddamned slow), so 3 probably isn't all that excessive.

Nevertheless, I agree that the above-mentioned programs are definitely good programs for everyone to install, "just in case".