Pipelining

[MRZ]

Do you pipeline your browser (allow it to connect to the same source multiple times to drastically increase transfer speeds)? Firefox can do it, i'm not sure about the others. I didn't like it that much, it seemed to confuse my wireless connection, but I can see how more grounded users can make good use out of it.

[supernerden]

I've done it. Don't remember how though.

[Afterburner]

I do it. For FireFox:

Enable Pipelining

Pipelining is an experimental feature, designed to improve page-load performance, that is unfortunately not well supported by some web servers and proxies. To try it out, add the following code to your user.js file:

// Enable pipelining:
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 100);

OR

1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

[crusty]

I have a thread about this in Irrelevance.

http://forums.xgenstudios.com/viewtopic.php?t=18300

[ehntoo]

ALSO, there's something that will help even more than the pipelining. I use it.

Make a new key in "about:config" called "nglayout.initialpaint.delay", make it an integer, and set the value to 0

This will make your pages render a whole lot faster.

[Leperkawn]

Sweet.

*does*



Edit: Jesus, I don't know if it was AB, noclue, or both of their ideas but I now surf/dl a helluva lot faster.

[The Brown Cow]

That IS speedy. Thanks for the tips.

[Leperkawn]

But whois.net just disallowed me from using their services for a day. Probably because I just used it 50 times in under a second.