Speeding up your internet connection

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Please note, this should only be done for high speed Internet users, not dial-up Internet users. (Why? Dial-up is so slow that there is nothing to gained by increasing the number of connections to a website. For high speed Internet users, the reason increasing the number of connections to a website is helpful is due to "capping". Websites are "capped". This means that a website, actually its server, will only give you information so fast, no matter how fast your connection is. If you can download 600k/s, like I could when I was on cable Internet, but a website's server is capped at 20k/s, then you can only receive websites found on that server at 20k/s if you only have one connection to it. Theoretically speaking, if you have eight connections to it, you could then receive the websites at 160k/s. This is theoretical, of course. There's more detail, but I will not get into at this time.)
Start", "Run..."
Type "regedit"
Navigate to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\InternetSettings"
If these values already exist, skip the next steps
"Edit", "New", "DWORD Value"
Rename "New Value #1" to "MaxConnectionsPerServer"
Select "MaxConnectionsPerServer"
"Edit", "Modify"
Set to 8
"Edit", "New", "DWORD Value"
Rename "New Value #1" to "MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server" (not MaxConnectionsPerI_OServer; 1_0 are numbers, not letters)
Select "MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server"
"Edit", "Modify"
Set to 8
Reboot
This does not take effect immediately. The effect is most notible when you are trying to download more than 2 items at once with Internet Explorer. This maximum amount proves that the default setting is 2. I am not sure whether it is the "...PerServer" or "...Per1_0Server" that effects this maximum download amount, but after you have set these values to 8, you can download 8 items at a time. You can increaes this value further, but I would suggest more research on what values are helpful or not before pushing it past 8. A download accelerated will take care of your efforts to download more than 2 or 8 or however many items at a time. If anyone has a deeper understanding of this, or has performed conclusive benchmarks

i found this and some other tips here http://www.sawtoothdistortion.com/Ar...weaksTips.html and i gotta say my damn IE never been faster.