Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of UserGuide/BandwidthTweaking

Timestamp:

02/19/2010 03:00:59 AM (14 years ago)

Author:

pi3832

Comment:

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UserGuide/BandwidthTweaking

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 The settings below are suggestions.  They are intended to give users more guidance than the settings recommended in the FAQ, but are by no means definitive.
 
-'''Don't be greedy.'''  There's more content out there than you can ever consume.  You don't need to download it all '''''right now!!'''''  By allocating your bandwidth properly you can maintain a solid, thick stream of data that fills up your hard-drive 10-times faster than you'd expect.
+'''Don't be greedy.'''  There's more content out there than you can ever consume.  You don't need to download it all ''right now! ''  By allocating your bandwidth properly you can maintain a solid, thick stream of data that fills up your hard-drive 10-times faster than you'd expect.
 
 Maximizing your peak download rates can be fun and all, but it doesn't necessarily get you the best over-all performance.
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 || Maximum Half-Open Connections: || 50 - 100 || (Unless you've got a Windows install with limited half-open connections.  Then this should be 50 - 80% of that limit.) ||
 
- Everyone got all excited when it was discovered that Microsoft had, at one point, limited half-open connections in XP and Vista to small numbers.  As a plethora of hacks came out to remove this limit, somehow "half-open connections" became the scape-goat for slow download speeds.  As people hacked around the limit, and as Microsoft removed it in later release, it seemed that, if limited half-open connections is bad, then lots and lots of them must be good.  Not really, though.  
+Everyone got all excited when it was discovered that Microsoft had, at one point, limited half-open connections in XP and Vista to small numbers.  As a plethora of hacks came out to remove this limit, somehow "half-open connections" became the scape-goat for slow download speeds.  As people hacked around the limit, and as Microsoft removed it in later release, it seemed that, if limited half-open connections is bad, then lots and lots of them must be good.  Not really, though.  
 
- Half-open connections should either resolve to fully-opened connections or be timed-out.  So, you really don't need to allow that many of them to be hanging around.
+Half-open connections should either resolve to fully-opened connections or be timed-out.  So, you really don't need to allow that many of them to be hanging around.
 
 || Maximum Connection Attempts per Second || 20 || (You don't need to fill all your allowed connections in the first second, do you?) ||