Firefox speed up plug-in

bum · Post by **bum** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 5:58 am

http://www.luketrewin.com/ . I recomend you read this first though http://bot2k3.net/forum/?showtopic=2840

How many connections exactly does this make? It could be violating the HTTP protocol because basically you get the speed boost by flooding the server with multiple connections for every item on the page. This can get your IP blacklisted, and is a pain in the arse to server admins.

Would that be a problem here?

Brsrk · Post by **Brsrk** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 7:35 am

Yes, it just uses up more bandwidth in the end trying to connect multiple connections and all that, but all you need is one to get the vid and not 50 to download it only 5 kbps faster...

bum · Post by **bum** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 7:43 am

From what I read (on that message board link) it only works for web browsing, not downloading. It would be a help for thoughs of us unfortunate enough to be on 56k.

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 11:06 am

bum wrote:From what I read (on that message board link) it only works for web browsing, not downloading. It would be a help for thoughs of us unfortunate enough to be on 56k.

If you're limited to that, this plugin won't do you much good.

This plugin simply parallelizes requests, which takes advantage of unused bandwidth. It doesn't perform black voodoo magic to give you more speed.

Also, Firefox already has this built-in. Go to about:config and filter by "pipelining". Change these settings:

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network.http.proxy.pipelining: true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests: 16
network.http.pipeling: true

You can change maxrequests to whatever, but note that if you go too high, you're still limited by your bandwidth and (sometimes) server bandwidth.

And yes, this can really piss off server admins.