Reply #9: Pipelining ... [View All]

Everyone who has commented seems not to have experienced any problems, so I don't know if this is worth mentioning, but I will just in case.

Pipelining can cause problems, particularly for those who use very high speed connections. The pure concept of pipelining and the practical application of it are often at odds since the servers it affects sometimes are configured so that they can't deal well with it. The slower your connection, the better a performance increase you will see. Eventually, though, you'll reach a point where performance starts to reverse itself.

I have a 5mbps connection, and I simply can't use pipelining. In fact most websites I hit can't give me the speed my connection is willing to take, so pipelining would just be overkill even if it didn't cause an issue. But, it does cause a loading time problem, mostly on pages with a number of graphic files.

On the other hand, I turned on pipelining in FF on my mother's computer, and she has had a significant performance increase. Her DSL connection is much slower than mine, however.

So, anyway, just thought I'd mention it.