Thanks Tubby for the reply.
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/04/11/407189.aspx has some good information on HTTP pipelining for IE (FF is similar in nature, only opera has 4 connections).
I have done some experiments with
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3371 on, there is certainly a big improvement.
Looking forward for more replies.
AjiNIMC