Simple tcpip.sys Question

[DiZzyBonne]

I have the following dwords added into my registry:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]
"MaxConnectionsPerServer"=dword:00000090
"MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server"=dword:00000090

Is that the same as patching tcpip.sys? Also, what if I never had any of these dwords in my registry and I didn't patch my tcpip.sys, how would if affect me? Last question, if that's set to 90, and I have net.max_halfopen set to 75, how am I connected to 90(267) seeds and 10(51) peers?

[DreadWingKnight]

No it's not the same as patching the tcpip.sys

Having an increased halfopen limit is useless beyond the first 90 seconds of a given torrent's life.

Connecting to everyone on the swarm won't speed you up unless the swarm is under about 75 members (the swarm you described is over 310 members)

[TheBear]

I run a default tcpip.sys without any problem on a 2.2M/600k connection.

The MaxConnectionsPerServer setting relates web browsing and is normally set at 2. A slightly higher setting (say 4) is helpful for loading pages with lots of "eye candy". Unless I fell asleep during one of my classes, a settting of 90 is extreme overkill and a lot of web servers are config'ed to only allow two connections anyway.

You're connected to 90 seeds and 10 peers because those connections aren't "halfopen", they're connected.

[DiZzyBonne]

#3

I thought 90+10=100 and I have my settings set to 90, so I thought, what's going on? Anyway, what exactly is a "halfopen" connection? Sorry for not Googling lol.

[EDIT]

http://torrentfreak.com/optimize-your-bittorrent-download-speed

On that site it says (it's talking about the 4226 warning in Event Viewer:)

If there are a lot of daily occurences it's likely that the max amount of half-open tcp connections was set back to 10. Or you're infected with some nasty spyware…

If I patched my patched tcpip.sys, then it got changed back to 10, why would I supposedly be getting that error? Why would Windows tell me I'm going over my limit? Is it because my net.max_halfopen is set to 75 thus it tries to go over the limit but it doesn't let me, resulting in the warning? Sorry if that's a little hard to understand, I didn't know how to best phrase my question lol.

[µtorrent-Guest]

half open connections have nothing(!) to do with how many connections you can have.

Its just how to many people you can shout hello at the same second. not with how many you can actually keep a conversation (exchange data) at the same second.