<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/62fcf817-f48d-45a5-a812-0afae6ce1391/5B7D2681-641F-4909-90E2-29E07B8C17F2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Optimize_Your_Web_Connection" href="http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Optimize_Your_Web_Connection" style="font-size: 11px;">howto.wired.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Optimize_Your_Web_Connection"><DIV><A title="Unfortunately, WD-40 won't help you here. Ethernet cable picture courtesy of Saschaaa via Flickr" href="http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Image:Ethernet_saschaaa_flickr.jpg"><IMG height="225" alt="Unfortunately, WD-40 won't help you here. Ethernet cable picture courtesy of Saschaaa via Flickr" hspace="0" src="http://howto.wired.com/mediawiki/images/thumb/Ethernet_saschaaa_flickr.jpg/300px-Ethernet_saschaaa_flickr.jpg" width="300" vspace="0" border="0" /></A> <DIV><DIV><A title="Enlarge" href="http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Image:Ethernet_saschaaa_flickr.jpg"><IMG height="11" hspace="0" src="http://howto.wired.com/mediawiki/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" vspace="0" /></A></DIV>Unfortunately, WD-40 won't help you here.<BR /><I>Ethernet cable picture courtesy of <A title="http://www.flickr.com/photos/saschaaa/152502539/" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/saschaaa/152502539/">Saschaaa via Flickr</A></I></DIV></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Optimize_Your_Web_Connection"> <P>Your broadband connection screams compared with the dial-up days of yore, but it could be faster. These days, your internet connection can't be fast enough. That is why we're here — to show you the way to a faster internet connection by tweaking the hardware and software you're using. </p> <P>There are a potentially infinite number of switches and gateways between you and the web. The trick to speeding up your connection is finding the shortcuts and only downloading the data you want, leaving behind the tacked-on cruft that's gumming up your web experience. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Optimize_Your_Web_Connection">Most ISPs are overburdened and dealing with traffic headaches on a scale that would make your brain sputter, and your internet crawl. Our tips will show you how you can manually offload your connection to a less-burdened server. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Optimize_Your_Web_Connection"><I>This article is a <B>wiki</B>. Scratch that mental itch by logging in and <A title="http://howto.wired.com/" href="http://howto.wired.com/">adding your tips</A> for a faster internet.</I></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5B7D2681-641F-4909-90E2-29E07B8C17F2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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