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Make IE and FireFox go faster than ever
FireFox is cool – but it’s *very* slow. So is IE.
There are ways to make both of them run faster, fortunately.
If you want to make IE go faster – Go here.
If you want to make FireFox go faster, follow these steps:
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
Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time.
When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.
Alter the entries as follows:
Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 30.

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Building a reliable, full-featured broadband router can be very easy and cost-efficient. This article is about building one for routing a LAN to the Internet with NAT (Network Address Translation — Linux users also call it as IP Masquerading) using an old computer and a Linux micro-distribution designed to have very low hardware requirements. We’ll end up having a very simple and stable system, yet featuring e.g. iptables based stateful firewalling and remote administration.

My brother had this old IBM Aptiva (which he had found from a trash can nearby his home) which happened to be just a suitable piece of hardware for the purpose:
Pentium 150 Mhz

14 Megs of RAM

1,6 GB Harddrive

Disk Drive

CD-ROM

10 Mbps Network Interface Controller

Soundcard

Keyboard

Mouse

Video Card with 2 MB Memory, integrated to motherboard

IBM G50 14″ Monitor

Choosing a suitable Linux Distribution

The basic idea was to build a router which would also provide firewall services to protect the internal network, and which could be administrated remotely. After doing a quick search, I found Coyote Linux which turned out to be just the perfect solution.

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