The most important factor in surfing speed?...
I remember years ago when I got my super modem of 110Kb /s with my older PII 350 Mhz and 128 Mb SDRAM, with my new Windows 98..., my surfing speed was deplorable, and then there arenīt this type of actual web pages that say "loading... wait a minute"...
But, I studied a little about protocols and net connectivity, and a good USA friend told me about the MTU,s (the sizes of the packets in a TCP/IP connection).
I surfed over the Windows registry and found it, and change it to a minor size (512 Kb)... and (like said Harry Potter), "wergardium leviossa..." from that day my surfing speed was my neighbourgsī envy...
I know the new Windows XP (Home edition and Proffesional Edition), work with big MTU, but I have a 56Mb /s wi-fi conection, for that cause I have not touched the MTU size in my OS registry.
Advice: If you donīt know how to manage the OS registry, donīt try it. Your OS can crash.
There are a lot of important factors in web surfing speed, and no one is more important than others.
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