Google Labs has announced the launch of a program that should speed up browsing. Basicaly the tool is delivering cached content, auto-zipping stuff you are downloading and tweaking your connection a bit.
The Google Web Accelerator will also learn your surf-patterns and get you those dirty pages before you even think about going there :-)
UPDATE:
How to blog Google Web Accelerator from including your pages in the indexing server via .htaccess.
Then again you would have to run some dirty operating system.
Firefox users should checkout about:config and set network.http.pipelining to true and network.http.pipelining.maxrequest to e.g. 8 (max value).