firefox tweaking

[persianpower]

Hey,

I have XP PRO SP2

with BC-based (that's Canada) TELUS VELOCITY ADSL (that's the name of my ISP (always connected)

Download cap = 150kBytes/s

Upload cap = 64kBytes/s

I usually hover around 40-100KB/sec (usually closer to 40)

Ive gone through all kinds of recommandations (i.e, uninstalled zone alarm, ran spy/virus checks, checked network and browser settings, added registry tweaks, unplugged modem, went inside lan properties, applied fixes, etc etc etc...

But still i experience a lag when surfing. Im forced to refresh pages to a ratio of 1:10 (meaning for every 10 pages i visit im forced to hit the refresh button at least once and sometimes even twice).

My downloads peak at 150KB/sec which is good but i experience constant surf lag.

Is anyone able to help me modify my already tweaked firefox or cabelnut settings?

Thanks

user_pref("accessibility.browsewithcaret", true);

user_pref("accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar", 0);

user_pref("app.update.lastUpdateDate", 1107649969);

user_pref("browser.anchor_color", "#0000FF");

user_pref("browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl", true);

user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", "65536");

user_pref("browser.display.background_color", "#C0C0C0");

user_pref("browser.display.screen_resolution", 96);

user_pref("browser.display.show_image_placeholders", false);

user_pref("browser.display.use_system_colors", true);

user_pref("browser.download.lastDir", "C:\\new hub files");

user_pref("browser.download.manager.closeWhenDone", true);

user_pref("browser.download.manager.showAlertOnComplete", false);

user_pref("browser.download.useDownloadDir", false);

user_pref("browser.history_expire_days", 0);

user_pref("browser.preferences.lastpanel", 0);

user_pref("browser.related.enabled", false);

user_pref("browser.search.selectedEngine", "Google");

user_pref("browser.sessionhistory.max_entries", 100);

user_pref("browser.shell.checkDefaultBrowser", false);

user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://www.google.ca/");

user_pref("browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone", "rv:1.7.5");

user_pref("browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInBackground", true);

user_pref("browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground", true);

user_pref("browser.tabs.warnOnClose", false);

user_pref("browser.urlbar.autoFill", true);

user_pref("browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll", true);

user_pref("browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled", true);

user_pref("browser.visited_color", "#800080");

user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", "2250000");

user_pref("content.interrupt.parsing", true);

user_pref("content.maxtextrun", 8191);

user_pref("content.notify.backoffcount", 5);

user_pref("content.notify.interval", 750000);

user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);

user_pref("content.switch.threshold", 750000);

user_pref("disabletarget.dumpToConsole", false);

user_pref("disabletarget.extensions", "zip rar exe tar jar xpi gzip gz ace bin");

user_pref("extensions.disabledObsolete", true);

user_pref("extensions.dta.context.alert", false);

user_pref("extensions.dta.context.directory", "C:\\NEW HUB FILES");

user_pref("extensions.dta.context.filter", "");

user_pref("extensions.dta.context.filter0.caption", "Archives (zip, rar..)");

user_pref("extensions.dta.context.filter0.checked", false);

user_pref("extensions.dta.context.filter0.filter", ".zip,.rar,.jar,.bz2,.gz,.tar,.rpm");

user_pref("extensions.dta.context.filter1.caption", "Videos (mpeg, avi, wmv..)");

user_pref("extensions.dta.context.filter1.checked", false);

user_pref("extensions.dta.context.filter1.filter", ".mpeg,.mpg,.mpe,.avi,.mov,.wmv,.mov,.asf,.qt");

user_pref("extensions.dta.context.filter2.caption", "Images (gif, jpg, png..)");

user_pref("extensions.dta.context.filter2.checked", false);

user_pref("extensions.dta.context.filter2.filter", ".jpg,.gif,.png,.jpeg,.jpe,.tif,.tiff");

user_pref("extensions.dta.context.filter3.caption", "Audio (mp3, wma..)");

user_pref("extensions.dta.context.filter3.checked", true);

user_pref("extensions.dta.context.filter3.filter", ".mp3,.wma");

user_pref("extensions.dta.context.ntask", 1);

user_pref("extensions.dta.context.numfilters", 4);

user_pref("extensions.dta.context.seltab", 0);

user_pref("extensions.dta.context.tdta", true);

user_pref("extensions.lastAppVersion", "1.0");

user_pref("extensions.tabprefs.reverseTab", true);

user_pref("extensions.update.lastUpdateDate", 1107559085);

user_pref("intl.charsetmenu.browser.cache", "EUC-KR, Shift_JIS, UTF-8, windows-1251, ISO-8859-15");

user_pref("layout.word_select.eat_space_to_next_word", false);

user_pref("layout.word_select.stop_at_punctuation", true);

user_pref("middlemouse.contentLoadURL", true);

user_pref("middlemouse.openNewWindow", false);

user_pref("middlemouse.paste", true);

user_pref("network.cookie.prefsMigrated", true);

user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 96);

user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 48);

user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 16);

user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 8);

user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);

user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 96);

user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);

user_pref("network.http.proxy.version", "1.0");

user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0);

user_pref("opendownload.adddownload", "C:\\DOCUME~1\\KAVEH~2.KAV\\LOCALS~1\\TEMP\\mozOpenDownload\\quicktimealt140.exe??1107731771186");

user_pref("plugin.expose_full_path", true);

user_pref("security.OCSP.URL", "");

user_pref("security.OCSP.signingCA", "Builtin Object Token:IPS CLASE1 root");

user_pref("security.enable_tls", false);

user_pref("security.warn_entering_secure", false);

user_pref("security.warn_leaving_secure", false);

user_pref("security.warn_submit_insecure", false);

user_pref("security.warn_submit_insecure.show_once", false);

user_pref("security.warn_viewing_mixed", false);

user_pref("signed.applets.codebase_principal_support", true);

user_pref("translate.displayContextMenu", true);

user_pref("translate.displayToolMenu", false);

user_pref("translate.userlanguage", 0);

user_pref("ui.submenuDelay", 600);

user_pref("xpinstall.whitelist.add", "");

MY CURRENT CABLENUT SETTINGS (tcp/ip info to follow)

DefaultReceiveWindow =192000

DefaultSendWindow = 65536

DisableAddressSharing = 1

InitialLargeBufferCount = 200

InitialMediumBufferCount = 480

InitialSmallBufferCount = 640

LargeBufferSize = 819200

MaxFastTransmit = 64000

MediumBufferSize = 150400

PriorityBoost = 0

SmallBufferSize = 12800

TransmitWorker = 32

FastSendDatagramThreshold = empty

EnableFastRouteLookup = empty

EnablePMTUDiscovery = 1

IgnorePushBitOnReceives = 0

GlobalMaxTcpWindowSize = 37960

MaxFreeTcbs = empty

MaxHashTableSize = empty

MaxNormLookupMemory = empty

SackOpts = 1

SynAttackProtect = 1

Tcp1323Opts = 0

TcpLogLevel = 1

TcpMaxDupAcks = 3

TcpMaxHalfOpen = 100

TcpMaxHalfOpenRetried = 80

TcpRecvSegmentSize = 1460

TcpSendSegmentSize = 1460

TcpTimedWaitDelay = empty

TcpUseRFC1122UrgentPointer = 0

TcpWindowSize = 37960

MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server = 20

MaxConnectionsPerServer = 10

DefaultTTL = 128

DisableUserTOSSetting = 0

TcpMaxDataRetransmissions = 3

DefaultTOSValue = 240

HERE IS MY TCP/IP info

(Note this is not a speed test):

MTU = 1500

MSS = 1460

Default Receive Window (RWIN) = 37960

RWIN Scaling (RFC1323) = 0 bits

Unscaled Receive Window = 37960

Time to live left = 117 hops

Timestamps (RFC1323) = OFF

Selective Acknowledgements (RFC2018) = ON

MTU Discovery = on

MY SYSTEM DETAILS.......

always connected ADSL

Windows XP PRO

ACPI Multiprocessor PC

Motherboard - Intel D865GBF

Intel dual P4 2.8Ghz MMX processor (w/ hyperthreading) around 40C temperature

Bus clock 200Mhz

System Bus speed - 800Mhz

System Memory speed - 400Mhz

MEMORY

512 RAM (496 physical)

L1 cache - 8kb

L2 cache - 512kb

VIDEO

Intel 82865G Graphics Controller

OEC 15.7" PnP Monitor

CD/DVD

Lite-On DVDRW SOHW-812S

SAMSUNG CDROM SC-148

HDD

75GB Maxtor 6Y080L0 Primary HDD - uncached speed ~ 30MB/s - 4kb cluster size

15GB Maxtor 9153IU3 Secondary HDD - uncached speed ` 15Mb/s - 1kb cluster size

Both are S.M.A.R.T enabled and aruond 30C(temp)

[scuzzman]

1) you need to lower this to about 6 because you're putting a terrible load on servers and wasting bandwidth people pay money for:

user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 96);

Also, call your ISP - DSL connections should never, repeat never, fluxuate. Your modem is losing sync.