The problem before has as i said before, been that it didnt even connected to the tracker, time out and so on. Maybe it would work better with lower settings, but it works perfectly smooth at my end now. I have no problems at all that i have noticed so far Oh, bad english of me, it wasnt my max global connection i was talking about, it was my internet speed. earlier it had to wait to connect to all peers, making it take (sometimes minutes) to connect to the amount of peers that i would be able to reach my maximum download speed. Now it connects very fast. I dont say this is the best setting, it problably aint. But it works perfectly fine and no time outs. and web surfing works as fast as before, so no bottleneck there either. I will stick to this setting. reducing half open to 3 as you always have been suggesting to people is no choice for me, it only makes everything worse for me. I guess this is because most people dont have hundreds of active torrents, and everyone with maybe around 50 torrents it works perfectly fine with 3.