While LTT Adsl and Wimax is slow because if maintenance and even when the fibers was down I noticed that Torrent downloading is still fast, the only logical reason is PIPELINING, when you download using torrent client you are virtually connected to lot of peers and each provides you with data chunks, so even when the network between us and top data centers is slow and not up to our limit peers will fill in the gape.
so how to do this with Firefox, well this is different from Torrents because it makes your Firefox act like more then one peer so it sucks all the speed out there and it really improved streaming media as well like Youtube.
here is how:
- Go to your Firefox address bar and write “about:config” without the quotes.
- In the filter input “pipe”.
- now change “network.http.pipelining” into true by double clicking it.
- Change “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” into 6 if your using “LTT Adsl” or around 15 for “Libyamax”.
That’s it, you don’t even need to restart Firefox or anything, just close the tab and enjoy faster surfing, websites like Rapidshare.com will still count you as 1 because the don’t allow multiple requests from the same client.
Regards TechnoLibyans.
October 6th, 2009 at 10:04 AM
There is also another way of speeding up things. I'm not sure if many of you know about Google Chrome, it's an internet browser just like Explorer or Firefox, from my experience it is much better. Way faster browsing than Firefox but audio/video streaming is generally the same speed as Firefox after enabling Pipelining (from what I have experienced on LTT ADSL connection). I have been using it for over a year and it's great.
Google Chrome:
"Speed: Fast to launch, fast to load web pages
- Quick to start up from your desktop
- Loads web pages in a snap
- Runs web applications faster than ever
Simplicity: Designed for efficiency and ease of use
- Search and navigate to web pages from the same box
- Arrange and organize tabs however you wish — quickly and easily
- Get to your favorite websites with just a click, from the thumbnails of your most visited sites in the New Tab page"
CNET News: "Speed test: Google Chrome beats Firefox, IE, Safari"
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10030888-92.html
Test it out yourself and let us know about your experience.
http://www.google.com/chrome?hl=en
October 6th, 2009 at 2:57 PM
It really works, not fast as the original speed but much faster than the way it is now… thanks alot wissam.
and about google chrome, i think everybody know that its faster than any other browser, but the reason why im sticking with the firefox is simply the add-ons, i just cant live without them, thats it. lol
October 6th, 2009 at 3:02 PM
ummm another thing, should i keep the same setting even after the internet is back to normal?
October 6th, 2009 at 6:31 PM
Yes it will give you even better speed on slow websites, so in a 15kps webserver you get 25kps and that’s better as we all know speed doesn’t depend on you only it’s also about the speed that a website divide and gives to each visitor.