If you are using broadband you can increase its speed just by some tweaks. Its not guaranteed that the speed will increase but there are chances that it might increase for some people. By default, Windows XP reserves up to 20 percent of your connections bandwidth. So you need to tweak some of the settings of your windows. This guide is for Windows Xp and i didn’t tried this on Vista but i will try this on Vista as well to see if it works with it or not. But for XP it do for some users and it did for me. Still in many places there are people who got internet but its not very fast even in my country the net is not that fast and maximum u get is 2 mb here.

So to increase your speed, Follow the steps :

• Start-> Run-> type gpedit.msc and it will open the Group Policy Window.
• Once the window opens, you will find Local Computer Policy there and just expand Administrative Templates under Computer Configuration as shown below :

• The Open the Network Folder and there you will see a folder QoS Packet Scheduler.
• Double-click Limit Reservable Bandwidth and Enable it and then change the Bandwidth limit % to 0 and Click Ok.

This is one way of increasing your speed but there is another way as well to increase your broadband speed, actually it improves your browsing speed but i have not tested it uptil now.

• Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining

network.http.proxy.pipelining

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

• Once you find this entry do this

1. Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”

2.Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”

3.Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

• Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0″. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

Hope that helped… i tried the first method and i think 2nd one is for slower connections as far as i think. So let me know whether it increases your speed or not.