Open more ports in IE...

[crptcblade]

Someone at work told me that IE is optimized (his words ) for 56k downloads, and only opens say 4 ports to download the images & stuff. He said there was a registry entry you can change to allow for more ports to be used for downloading. Is this true? And if so, does anybody know which reg entry to change?

[nabeels786]

huh?

isn't everything done through port 80?

first text is downloaded..then images, etc

[Rick Bull]

You can change the amount of connections IE has open, as I seem to remember that it's illegal or something to use more than four. But you can change it in the registry. There's something on it in the MS Knowledge base somewhere. Do a search.

[numtel]

how would it be illegal to open more? that makes no sense...

[chrisjk]

this may (and I use the term losely) be what you be wanting, but it reckons there are only 2

http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q282402

[Rick Bull]

Originally posted by numtel
how would it be illegal to open more? that makes no sense...

I seem to remember reading something about not overloading the server just to get a faster connection for yourself - it's not fair on others. Don't know whether it's really illegal, or just some spec they have to stick to. I don't know I can't remember

[JoshT]

On a Windows box each TCP connections consumes a minimum of 32K of memory, IIRC, - not too bad by itself, but on a server with thousands of open connections...

Also, remember that to create a new connection, processing overhead is needed to establish a connection.