uTorrent stopped working properly

[DreadWingKnight]

Why are you thread hijacking?

[cnico88]

I found out that on heavily seeded torrents a large net.max_halfopen starts it very fast but on torrents with very few seeders I have to lower the net.max_halfopen to something like 4 or 5 to make it connect at all. I am not sure if this is the only problem or if there is something else, but for now it fixes my torrenting to what is used to be.

I have no idea why because before I just set the net.max_halfopen to 80 and left it there and it used to download constantly

[DreadWingKnight]

Increased net.max_halfopen settings only creates problems and doesn't actually generate any real speed increases.

[Firon]

If you don't patch tcpip.sys, it causes problems when you raise it. Even if you do patch, MS often resets it with Windows Update, so it's not really a good idea to raise half-open in general.

[alostsoul34]

Have recent XP updates made any problems with utorrent? I too have used utorrent to down thousands of gigs. My computer's up to date. My ISP has no download limit. I did add firefox browser but I don't think that has anything to do with the fact that I cannot connect to any seeds or peers now at all. On anything I try to download. Only thing new on the computer is a new Belkin wireless adapter. I does show peers that could be connected to, but won't connect. It does not show any seeds that could be connected to at all.