Enabling More Simultaneous Connections Win7
Excerpts from: Windows 7 Your Way
Acknowledgements to: Michael Miller
By default, Internet Explorer 8 is configured to enable six simultaneous connections to a server. The problem comes when you visit a web page that contains lots of images and JavaScript content, all of which have to download to your browser. With just a half-dozen simultaneous connections enabled, it can take awhile to download multiple images and such.
Here are the facts. Your browser has to make more than 40 requests to the server before it can assemble a typical web page. Requesting all those files a half-dozen at a time is going to take longer than requesting ten (or more) files at a time. If you can download more connections, you can significantly speed up the display of all web pages.
To enable more simultaneous connections from a single web server, you have to edit the Windows Registry, using the Registry Editor.
Here’s how to enable more simultaneous connections to a server:
caution:
Take care when editing the Registry. All changes you make are immediately enabled; any mistakes you make can affect the running of your system.
1. Open the Start menu, enter regedit into the search box, and then
press Enter.
2. When the Registry Editor, opens, navigate to the HKEY_CURRENT_
USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Int ernet
Settings key.
3. Select Edit, New, DWORD (32-bit) Value.
4. Name this new item MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server.
5. Right-click this new item and select Modify.
6. In the Value Data dialog box, change the value to 10. ( You can try more than 10 once you have tested this. I set mine to 40 )
7. Click OK.
8. Select Edit, New, DWORD (32-bit) Value.
9. Name this new item MaxConnectionsPerServer.
10. Right-click this new item and select Modify.
11. In the Value Data dialog box, change the value to 10.
12. Click OK.
13. Close the Registry Editor.
I have used these settings on both Win7 and Vista.
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