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Windows 98 - Multiple connections to one server

November 25, 2013
Updated: December 6, 2021
Quick overview:

If you access a page with several windows, you will notice that Internet Explorer accesses the individual pages more slowly. The reason for this is the connection restriction to a server: Internet Exlorer is only allowed to hang on the server with a maximum of 2 connections. To increase this number (which is sufficient), proceed as follows:

1. Click on Start/Execute and type in the command line regedit on. The Windows Registry Editor.

2. Navigate through the keys one after the other HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings and right-click in the right-hand pane. Now select New/DWORD Value.

3. You now name this value MaxConnectionsPerServer and double-click on it. Now, after you have entered Decimal have marked a 8 inside.

4. After confirmation with OK As described above, create another DWORD value, which this time you enter as MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server name.

5. Here too, double-click on it and select Decimal before you enter the number 8 type in.

After a restart, you will notice a significant increase in performance with several connections.

NOTE FOR NEW PUBLICATION: This article was produced by Sandro Villinger and comes from the Windows Tweaks archive, which has been built up since the late 1990s.

Founded Windows Tweaks as a teenager in the 90s. His helpful PC tricks made it Germany's most visited Windows site (at the time Sandro looked like this). He then went on to write elsewhere, for example for PC-Praxis, Computer Bild and PCWorld in the USA. Microsoft also poached him from us. Now Sandro is back, finally sharing his tweaks here again. For a stress-free digital everyday life. You can reach Sandro via e-mail.

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