Changes between Version 6 and Version 7 of UserGuide/BandwidthTweaking
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- 02/28/2010 10:24:59 PM (14 years ago)
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v6 v7 36 36 || Maximum Download Speed || '''80 - 95%''' of tested download speed || (Be careful of setting this too high--it can strangle your browsing, media streaming, etc. and other people who use your connection.) 37 37 || Maximum Upload Speed || '''80%''' of tested upload speed || (Upload speed is the limiter for most p2p applications.) || 38 || 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.) ||38 || Maximum Half-Open Connections: || '''10 - 50''' || (Unless you've got a Windows install with limited half-open connections. Then this should be 80% of that limit.) || 39 39 40 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. Suddenly it became ''de riguer'' to advise Windows users to hack the TCP/IP driver and set their half-open connections to something huge, like 200.40 Everyone got all excited when it was noticed that Microsoft had initially 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. Suddenly it became ''de riguer'' to advise Windows users to hack the TCP/IP driver and set their half-open connections to something huge, like 200. 41 41 42 Most users have no need for a setting that high, and Microsoft has removed the original limit in later releases/patches --or at least made it user-adjustable. Half-open connections should--rapidly--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.42 Most users have no need for a setting that high, and Microsoft has removed the original limit in later releases/patches, and made it user-adjustable. (Do not patch your tcpip.sys or whatever--just update to the current official release.) The reality is that half-open connections should--rapidly--resolve to fully-opened connections or be timed-out, so you really don't need that many of them hanging around, anyway. 43 43 44 || Maximum Connection Attempts per Second || '''20''' || (When you set your per-torrent connections and such to a reasonable number, you will fairly quicklyestablish reliable connections with plenty of peers. You shouldn't need to be banging around for thousands of new connections every minute.) ||44 || Maximum Connection Attempts per Second || '''20''' || (When you set your per-torrent connections and such to a reasonable number, you will establish reliable connections with plenty of peers. You shouldn't need to be banging around for thousands of new connections every minute.) || 45 45 46 46