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By default, Internet Explorer allows only two simultaneous server connections, which is fine for normal use, but can bog down when you are connecting to web pages with lots of graphical content. By increasing the number of possible connections, you can use your Internet bandwidth more efficiently, and load complex web pages faster.

To increase IE maximum connections:

Start REGEDIT.

Navigate to 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings'

Add the following two DWORD entries:

'MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server' value equals '0000000a'
'MaxConnectionsPerServer' value equals '0000000a'

Exit and reboot.
 
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Since it's in the current user hive instead of the local machine, a logoff should be sufficient.
 
Does this also work in Windows Vista ?
As this is a feature of IE and not the underlying O/S, it should work there too (if it isn't already set up that way).

Rumor has it that Internet Exploder 8 will default to six connections.

There is a tweaking extension to Firefox that allows editing the connections and pipelining parameters.
 

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