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for which you want to speed up internet connection, you can follow the trick below...
to the experts this may not be useful, yaaa...i just one of newbie...

in Internet Explorer
Select the menu Tools - Options
click the Connections tab,
click the LAN Settings button,
enable "use a proxy server", then click Advanced,
sock in the fields and fill in localhost port 9999 with the contents
on the exceptions (Do not use proxy server for addresses beginning with:)
fill with 127.0.0.1; 192.168.1.1/16
then click ok

in Firefox
Select the menu Edit - Preferences,
click the Advanced icon,
click the Network tab,
click the Settings button,
click on manual proxy configuration
Sock in the fields fill in host localhost and port 9999 with the contents
in the no proxy for the content of the localhost, 127.0.0.1; 192.168.1.1/16
then click ok

next...
Mozilla Firefox for the user you can type "about: config" in the address bar, then change "network.http.pipelining" and "network.http.proxy pipelining" to "true", and the contents "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” between 30-100 (gede better). The last right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer, enter "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" then fill in with 0.
For Internet Explorer users, you can select the Tools menu, then click Internet Options. then select the General tab and on the "Temporary Internet files" click on Settings and move the slider to its position in the Temporary Internet files folder. This will increase the cache or the location of storage sites that you have open. Instead fill in with a value of at least 5 person capacity of your hard disk.

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