WinXP Pro Service Pack 2 TCPIP patch question.

[SanDiegoKid]

Thanks to a sudden unexpected and complete hard drive meltdown I'm on a bran-spanking new OS installation.

Before I start the party that is reinstalling every tiny tweak and application I've accumulated over the last several months, I thought I'd start with the basics.

For the first time, I've installed SP2. I have the LvlLord TCPIP patch, but before I install it I want to ask the connection limit I should set. The default is 50, but some torrents have hundreds and hundreds of peers. What's a good limit some of you have set with success?

Also, I lost all of my totally sweet bookmarks, so can someone post the link to one of those pages with links to the latest and greatest BT resources? I had a huge list before the crash, but now I'm back to the few I have memorized.

Crap.

[zaphodiv]

50 is probably fine. It's a limit on the number of connections that are in the process of being opened to a prticular port number not total connections.

[ducttapeBigSexy]

Well, if you're using Bittorrent, depending on your settings in your client, you might want to open more. Especially if you use popular torrents - some can easily have 100 peers connected on it (and, I know a client like Azureus connects over only one port).

I usually set mine to like 500 - the only reason the TCP/IP limit was made was to limit the spreading of worms to other computers. I keep my antivirus software up to date, and lately I haven't even been in Windows lately (go Linux :) ), so I'm not too concerned.

[phalkon30]

I put mine at the max of 16 million, like ducttapebigsexy said, its so microsoft won't look bad when the next blaster worm hits. There are really no negative side effects to an extremely high number, prior to SP2 it was unlimited anyway.

[cpugeniusmv]

I put mine at the max of 16 million, like ducttapebigsexy said, its so microsoft won't look bad when the next blaster worm hits. There are really no negative side effects to an extremely high number, prior to SP2 it was unlimited anyway.

no, prior to sp2 it was about 16 million :-D

i set mine to 50, and i haven't encountered any more errors...and i'm pretty hard on the internet :)

(keep in mind that the limit is for "half open", or connections in the making, if you like. the total number of simultaneous connections is not effected by this value.)

[crackerjacker]

no, prior to sp2 it was about 16 million :-D

i set mine to 50, and i haven't encountered any more errors...and i'm pretty hard on the internet :)

(keep in mind that the limit is for "half open", or connections in the making, if you like. the total number of simultaneous connections is not effected by this value.)

got links for the patch cpu?
post here

[shawners]

I posted a thread and patch earlier today. Pls see above in bit torrent forums on zp.

[SanDiegoKid]

http://www.lvllord.de/

Here you go, cJ.

[shawners]

http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=25969

[infringer]

gameglitch
toreents.info or something like that
among many otheres listed in the forums

Check them all out by using the keyword ".torrent" in the google search engine.

Kleenr that sux man hard drive meltdown seems to be a pretty popular happening amongst P2P'rs I was once told that the RIAA/MPAA has a program which can set some flag in your bios killing your data on your hard drive and making the drive not recoverable I dunno how true this is but I found it funny that right before I got my DMCA ban as well as a friend of mine who had a similar happening had a hard drive go to chit as well... So just take the necassary precautions reflash your bios and update all your chit. As I had a 250GB go to chit lost loads and loads of movies I think like 170 home movies of my family *cough* but at any rate man it oddly happend to I and a friend of mine at the same time coiencidence but we both got the ban relitively within the same time our hard drives went to shit...

I dunno possible I really cant say for sure just take precautions as you deem nessacary I dont wish to start widespread panic over something that is not true so take this with a grain of salt.

-infringer-

[SanDiegoKid]

My downloads all go to external drives, so the only hassle really is digging through my mountain of CD/DVDs to reinstall all of my apps.
I should really put together a master set of the important stuff on DVD-RW and keep updating them with the latest versions, etc.

[shawners]

You buy a cd holder book.. mark the front of the book with dates.. and do a file list txt on your pc.. and label your disc 1-100. and you always know whats on there. Sometimes you update to a bad program and cant find the one you liked before.. Kinda like switching p2p apps to a new one, and none to go back to.

[Malicious Intent]

Well a tracker reports 20 new IP adresses at a time.

20*the number of torrents you are running is theoritically the absolute most you would need.

But then CPU knows more about these things than me.

[cpugeniusmv]

i've had 10-20 torrents open at one time before uploading 1-2 mB/sec, and still not received any error. 50 will be fine :)