slackr Posted March 14, 2006 Report Share Posted March 14, 2006 Ever since I patched tcpip.sys to allow 50 half-open connections, µtorrent (1.5) can't connect to the tracker (mostly demonoid). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fecklessness Posted March 14, 2006 Report Share Posted March 14, 2006 slackr, i can't shed light on the problem, but i am curious what prompted you to patch the tcpip.sys to allow 50 connections? were you freezing? internet dying or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted March 14, 2006 Report Share Posted March 14, 2006 Demonoid's really unreliable. Worse than TPB, imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted March 14, 2006 Report Share Posted March 14, 2006 The TCPIP.sys patch shouldn't have negatively affected any tracker, so I'm not sure why you think the patch is the culprit. :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slackr Posted March 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2006 You were right Firon, it is demonoid that was the problem, the OO.o torrent downloads at full speed.Well, I patched tcpip.sys because I my webbrowser would grind to a halt when using µtorrent. At first I thought it was because my downstream connection was "full", but when I was only seeding I still couldn't really browse the web. Then I thought that maybe µtorrent was using up a lot of sockets in little time, so FF wouldn't have enough left (don't know if the use of a lot of tabs made it worse). The way I read it, the patcher changes the number of half-open tcp connections to a higher number. Since my router blocks syn-floods, I thought it wouldn't be a problem to patch. Does this explanation makes sence to any of you, I'm kinda a noob when it comes to tcp/ip (I'm trying to learn network socket programming in C under linux)Otherwise µtorrent is a great client, I can see somewhere that Ludde doesn't want to release the sourcecode (he is afterall the only major developer (correct me if I'm wrong)). Too bad that this also limits the chances of a port of µtorrent to other OS's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted March 15, 2006 Report Share Posted March 15, 2006 The way I read it, the patcher changes the number of half-open tcp connections to a higher number. Since my router blocks syn-floods, I thought it wouldn't be a problem to patch.That sounds about right.Even still, smart users who are careful (and quick to remove viruses when they DO get infected) don't get ANY benefit from the halfopen connection limit imposed by microsoft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BritBrat Posted March 15, 2006 Report Share Posted March 15, 2006 Demonoid's really unreliable. Worse than TPB, imo.It hardly ever records the stats correctly, maybe thats why they dont ban anyone for a poor ratio but they don't tell you that.If you have one torrent seeding and thats with Demoniod it will record the data, have more than one and most time it will not record anything. I tried every way I could to work out what was going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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