Quote: Originally Posted by
soylomass 
I think you never used p2p programs..., when you are downloading things, with for example limewire, ares, torrents, you notice that you cant even surf the web.
So, dont talk about things you dont know.
I used the TCP patch before formating the pc, with a soft that selected the option "Disable Driver Enforcement etc." in boot options, but know the patch gives a blue screen, dunno why.
heh, It bsod because the patch is a nothing but lies
Soylomass..Shao128 is right
I use Shareaza, UTorrent, Limewire, Azureus (even though some use the same networks) and others depending on my needs...The Half-Open connection limit is aimed at developers not end-users of these applications like yourself...These clients and others (Utorrent being an expception) dont need extra configuration because they have been updated for the half-open limit changes (only utorrent actually uses half-open connections and even then its one or two connections used for compatibility with older clients, it uses a setting of max_Halfopen 8 instead of 4 so you need to adjust that manually under advanced config yourself)
If you cant browse the internet while using these applications then you either configured the app wrong or your router/modem cant handle the amount of connections p2p applications create...
This limit has been around 4 or 5 years now and developers have adjusted their applications accordingly, I also haven't seen a single kb drop in the speed of my downloads else I would be using the patch...Some people just misunderstand the Microsoft KB article and decided they should blame that limit for their slow downloads or other problems
BTW Its also not a good idea to patch the core of windows networking (like that patch does) because you never know what security problems or code they might place there
Steven