cant have more then 60 connections in azureus
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merkk




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PostPosted: Sat, 8th Oct 2005 10:37    Post subject: cant have more then 60 connections in azureus
if i set the max global connections in azureus much past 60 my whole internet connection tendz to die.

I thought maybe it was my router so i removed the router and connected directly to the cable modem (motorola sb4200) but that didnt change anything.

So then i download a tcpip.sys patch which a few people suggested. that didnt seem to make a difference either.

I saw someone post this in one of the other threads in the forums here:
http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/4755/uploading3gr.jpg

It clearly shows someone with a lot more then 60 connections ... more like 400. Anyone have any clues why mine craps out at around 60? I was going to ask the person who posted that image, only i cant find that post any more ;p

thanks
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SycoShaman
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PostPosted: Sat, 8th Oct 2005 11:45    Post subject:
If ur talking about a p2p client, dont bother looking here for any solutions...


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merkk




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PostPosted: Sat, 8th Oct 2005 11:48    Post subject:
SycoShaman wrote:
If ur talking about a p2p client, dont bother looking here for any solutions...


Umm, why? is this the wrong forum to ask? i'm not asking for any links or anything like that. Just some tech help trying to figure out why i cant get more then 60 connections. I thought stuff like that was ok to ask about.
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SycoShaman
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PostPosted: Sat, 8th Oct 2005 11:52    Post subject:
Hmm, I dunno to be honest, u may be right and if so man, i apologize for real Smile

Either way, I cant help ya cuz I dont use the client. But from the sounds of it maybe their is a memory leak in the program (like kazaa had/has) that locks u computer after so many connections/data....? If so, maybe u need to update the client or try using a different p2p network. Check their forums id say for tech help, but u never know, someone may be able to help ya out


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merkk




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PostPosted: Sat, 8th Oct 2005 12:09    Post subject:
think i found the cause. In the system event viewer, when i bump up the connections and everything dies, i see this entry:

event ID 4226 TCP/IP has reached the security limit imposed on the number of concurrent TCP connect attempts.

So it looks like its a windows 'feature' Wink I suppose its actually good ... but would be nice if we could control it somehow.

Anyone know of a way around this?
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Jenni
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PostPosted: Sat, 8th Oct 2005 14:18    Post subject:
merkk you're fine to ask that question here.


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Basil-Brush




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PostPosted: Sat, 8th Oct 2005 18:56    Post subject:
I think this limit on tcpip connections is a 'feature' of a windows service pack
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/sp2netwk.mspx#EIAA
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ms_bug




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PostPosted: Sat, 8th Oct 2005 20:17    Post subject:
You're right Basil-Brush.. It's the limit MS put on with SP2.. There are some solutions, there is a registry patch that doesn't always work and you can patch the file that couses problems and allow more simultaneous connection attempts.. You can find the patch in link below even tho I recommend using BitComet over Azareus (it automatically disables connection limit 'feature') and I like it more Wink

http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=1497
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merkk




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PostPosted: Sat, 8th Oct 2005 21:17    Post subject:
hmm, i tried the patch that article links to already and it doesnt seem to help.

I dont see an entry in the event log anymore, but my connection still dies.

The other odd thing is it sounds like this limitation is only supposed to delay making new connections. Its not supposed to affect already established connections, correct? If so then how come my download speed drops to zero when i hit this error?

The article does mention that you need to be safe mode to run the patch and i wasnt in safe mode. But the patch site itself doesnt mention that AND windows pops up a warning telling me the tcpip.sys file has been changed so i assume it works. Plus if i run the patch a 2nd time it also indicates things have been patched.

I'll give bitcomet a try if you think that'll work around this issue. I assume i can transfer one torrent into another client by just downloading the .torrent file and pointing it to the same directory that the other program was downloading to? and obviously not having them both running at the same time Wink

thaks for the help
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merkk




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PostPosted: Sat, 8th Oct 2005 23:55    Post subject:
well i have bitcommet running on that torrent now. as far as i can tell it doesnt choke up the system going past 60. says its connected to 100 peers now.

however, its also only saying there arre 2700 peers total, when according to azureus and the website i download the torrent from, there should be more like 1500 seeds and 20,000 peers. Any idea why thats happening? The numbers are going up though.

Hmm, even though bitcomet is saying i'm connected to 250 peers and downloading from 52 of them, my download speeds are pretty much the same i was getting in azureus. That doesnt really make any sense. Even if i didnt get huge jumps in speed, i should still some some increase downloading from that many more peers i would think. And I did cap the max upload speed so thats not an issue.


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weird0
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PostPosted: Sun, 9th Oct 2005 00:08    Post subject:
leave the connection setting of bc on auto, or else it's spending more bandwitdh with looking for connections than with transfers.
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SycoShaman
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PostPosted: Sun, 9th Oct 2005 02:10    Post subject:
Why would Mircoshit limit the max sim connections u can have? that doesnt make sense....


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merkk




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PostPosted: Sun, 9th Oct 2005 02:18    Post subject:
they might have done it for the same reason ... thinking the only time someone is going to have that many open connections is if they are infected with a worm. For most people its probably true ... most people probably never have more then 2 or 3 connections open at once. At least not until bittorrents become a LOT more main stream Wink
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SycoShaman
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PostPosted: Sun, 9th Oct 2005 02:20    Post subject:
merkk wrote:
they might have done it for the same reason ... thinking the only time someone is going to have that many open connections is if they are infected with a worm. For most people its probably true ... most people probably never have more then 2 or 3 connections open at once. At least not until bittorrents become a LOT more main stream Wink


BT is way to insecure, so ive read, to become mainstream and not very consistent or reliable.


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Basil-Brush




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PostPosted: Sun, 9th Oct 2005 11:40    Post subject:
SycoShaman wrote:
Why would Mircoshit limit the max sim connections u can have? that doesnt make sense....

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/sp2netwk.mspx#EIAA
Microsoft wrote:

This change limits the ability of malicious code to create distributed denial-of-service attacks and limits the ability to send spoofed packets, which are TCP/IP packets with a forged source IP address.

Slightly less chance of windows boxes being auto virus/worm spreaders.But p2p apps suffer as a result.
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SycoShaman
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PostPosted: Sun, 9th Oct 2005 13:31    Post subject:
Meh, i dont have any p2p apps on my cpu so its all good Smile


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