Tips and Tweaks to Speed up your Internet Connection
How can you speed up your Internet Connection,this are the tweaks you can do to your windows to speed-up your Internet Connection.I've used all these tweaks and utilities,but for a precaution though,make a System Restore checkpoint just in case something messes up and you wanted to revert back to your current settings.
Browser Tweaks
For Firefox:
If you use FireFox, there's some tweaks you can do to help make webpages load a bit faster:
FireFox Browser Tricks will only work if you have a high-speed / broadband internet connection.
FireFox browser is already a fairly fast browser, but here we will offer some "tricks" that you can do to help speed it up a notch.
Type in: "about:config" (without the quotes) in the Address bar and press Enter. You may get a warning message, so if you wish to continue, click on the "I'll be careful, I promise" button on the warning page.
On the "about:config" screen, scroll down to the "network.http.pipelining" options.
Firefox normally processes all HTTP requests sequentially. Once it sends one out, it waits for a response before sending the next request to a server.
Set the "network.http.pipelining" and "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to a value of "true".
Now set the "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" option to 30 and Firefox will now send up to 30 HTTP requests at once, theoretically, although not always, making your browser that little bit faster.
Before you close the window, right-click anywhere on the "about:config" page and select "New->Integer". Then type in "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" (without the quotes) and enter 0 as its numerical value. Firefox will now render pages immediately instead of waiting its default 250 ms, a slight but noticeable difference when you're surfing the Web.
Reduce the amount of Ram Firefox uses for its cache:
1. Find “browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewer”
2. Set it’s numerical value to “0“ (Zero without the quotes)
Reduce Ram usage to 10MB when Firefox is minimized:
This tweak will drop Firefox’s RAM usage down to 10 Mb when minimized:
1. Right Click in the page and select New -> Boolean.
2. In the box that pops up enter “config.trim_on_minimize” (without the quotes). Press Enter.
3. Now select True and then press Enter.
4. Restart Firefox Browser for the new changes to take effect.
For Internet Explorer
Some ISPs use Web Proxies to increase the security of your Internet connection. Unfortunately in some cases, it seems like the Web proxy slows you down.
One thing you can do that might significantly increase your Web performance and allow the pictures to be downloaded normally is to configure the Internet Explorer to use HTTP 1.1 through proxy connections. The default for this setting is disabled.
To Enable it:
Click Tools in the menu bar, and then click Internet Options.
In the Internet Options dialog box, click the Advanced tab.
Scroll down until you see the list of options for HTTP 1.1 settings and put a checkmark in the checkbox for Use HTTP 1.1 through proxy connections
Click OK.
Close all of your browser windows and reopen Internet Explorer. You may find your connections are a lot faster now.
Allow Internet Explorer 10 Downloads Simultaneously
You can configure Internet Explorer browser to allow 10 simultaneous downloads (the normal maximum is 2). Copy and paste the code below into Notepad and save it as 'Downloads.reg' (remember where you saved it to)
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]
"MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server"=dword:0000000a
"MaxConnectionsPerServer"=dword:0000000a
Make sure all Internet Explorer windows are closed, then double-click on the 'Download.reg' file and click Yes to enter it into the Registry.
That's it! enjoy surfing :)
