How to optimize internet settings?

[jsmith773]

How can internet settings be optimized to get a faster speed. Is there software or things built within windows to get a faster speed.

[focuz]

Not sure if it really boasts speed or not but supposibly using firefox with the fasterfox addon is told to increase browser performance.

[gunslinger]

You cannot change your internet speed unless you have cable and you "uncap" it and thats illegal.
There are some changes in firefox that you can do to make it a lot faster: go to the address bar and type "about:config" without quotes. then change these settings.

network.http.max-connections: 48

network.http.max-connections-per-server: 24

network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy: 12

network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server: 6

network.http.pipelining: true

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests: 8

network.http.proxy.pipelining: true

exit firefox and restart it, you will see a real increase in speed.

[geekhelp4u]

You cannot change your internet speed unless you have cable and you "uncap" it and thats illegal.
There are some changes in firefox that you can do to make it a lot faster: go to the address bar and type "about:config" without quotes. then change these settings.

network.http.max-connections: 48

network.http.max-connections-per-server: 24

network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy: 12

network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server: 6

network.http.pipelining: true

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests: 8

network.http.proxy.pipelining: true

exit firefox and restart it, you will see a real increase in speed.

hmm... i did this on two computers and did not do it on two computers... had three other people type in the same url and did a count down and hit enter... all 4 computers loaded every site at the same speed!

[gunslinger]

worked for me