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1 Jun 27, 2006 at 02:42 by Oisin G

re: point #1 — it says “half-open” connections — this does not mean you can only have 10 connections at a time: it means you can only have ten connection _attempts in progress_ at any one time. You can still have hundreds of peers connected, but the rate at which you may connect is slowed down. It does not cripple torrents, it merely slows down the spin up time, albeit marginally.

2 Jun 27, 2006 at 02:48 by TheShark

why are you d/l a patch with a backdoor virus

3 Jun 27, 2006 at 02:56 by ags

a virus? Are you sure? That would be awesome. Just what I’d need.

4 Jun 27, 2006 at 03:02 by ikon

Great article dude. I will be sure to pass this on to others.

5 Jun 27, 2006 at 03:17 by Nick

Great article. Little bit of a typo though.
If you still want to be able to browse properly, set your maximum download speed to:

95% of your maximum upload speed

so if your maximum download speed is 400 kB/s, the optimal download speed is 380kB/s

Should say 95% of your maximum download speed.

6 Jun 27, 2006 at 03:35 by Slickick

Thanks for the torrent tips, Cool Page!

7 Jun 27, 2006 at 03:36 by Slickick

digg ROCKS!

8 Jun 27, 2006 at 03:53 by merfe

Backdoor program BDS/Virkel.A.7 was detected by my AntiVir.

9 Jun 27, 2006 at 04:56 by adaw

It’s best to find a tutorial which shows you how to do it without downloading some random patch being hotlinked anyway. Just seeing the link sitting there made me feel uneasy about it.

10 Jun 27, 2006 at 05:12 by jeffk

My AV didn’t find a virus, but I foolishly ran the evid4266 patch *before* I read all the comments. I think/hope I undid all the changes correctly.

Anybody wanna do some research and confirm the virus issue one way or the other?

11 Jun 27, 2006 at 05:15 by Austin

great article one question. Does Vista also limit the connections to 10? I’m using the public beta and that tool doesn’t work(obviously).

12 Jun 27, 2006 at 05:24 by Sachin

Nice article ..except for this slight mistake “kb/s = kB/s divided by 8″ … It should have been :
“kb/s = kB/s multiplied by 8″ or
“kB/s = kb/s divided by 8″

13 Jun 27, 2006 at 05:56 by blah

Those previous comments involving antivir were most likely false positives on the virus scan. I as well as several others have scanned with our respective programs and found nothing strange, plus we’ve been using it for ages.

14 Jun 27, 2006 at 07:12 by Zero

…um…ok, I used that patch, but I don’t know how to undo it. Help please?

15 Jun 27, 2006 at 07:19 by Ernesto

Nick and Sachin, thanks for pointing out the inconsistencies: corrected!

Zero, the patch is perfectly safe and you can undo it by running the patch again and changing to max connections to 10.

About the patch being a virus, this is not the case:

Some AntiVir Software vendors added the patcher into their virus-definitions. The patcher is often detected as ‘Tool/EvID’. But as a first info: The patcher ist NO VIRUS. Some virus and trojanwriter uses the same technique to increase the limit. After that its easier for them to spread to other computers in the internet. This runs without knowledge of the user. So he is not informed about what’s going on. With the patcher here, every user can decide on his own if he wants to change the file and if yes how high the limit should be. Also the user will be warned if he chooses to high limits, as already infected machines will spread existent viruses and trojans easier to the net. So everybody can choose on its own and is not forced to. The patcher itself does not contain malware.The virus-notification therefore should be seen as an information that this program contains the functionality to increase the limit. If that program is not known or has not been installed you can delete it.
I hope I have answered some questions.

16 Jun 27, 2006 at 09:08 by I

“So 50 seeds and 50 peers is better than 500 seeds and 1000 peers”

500 seeds and 1000 peers would almost always be the faster download – remember all those peers are seeders too

UPnP for port forwarding? NO

17 Jun 27, 2006 at 09:38 by Ernesto

[quote]500 seeds and 1000 peers would almost always be the faster download – remember all those peers are seeders too[/quote]

A peer is not a seeder. And torrents with a higher “seed / peer ratio” tend to be healthier.

sure it depends on the % of the complete file the leechers (peers) have on average. The download will probably be faster if all peers are on 95%, but it will be slower if the peers are on 5%. The example is just to sress that it is important to take a look at the the seed / peer ratio.

18 Jun 27, 2006 at 09:58 by web design uk

Im gona totally try these methods! Thanks for the great post

19 Jun 27, 2006 at 15:55 by I

“A peer is not a seeder”

if a peer is not seeding it obviously isn’t taxing your download either…so it wouldn’t be much of a peer.

“And torrents with a higher “seed / peer ratio” tend to be healthier.”

but torrents with a higher number of connections (from EITHER seeds or peers) will generally be faster (assuming one good seed).

now, small files WILL benefit from a high-seed-ratio….but small files should be fast anyway

20 Jun 27, 2006 at 17:35 by Ernesto

“but torrents with a higher number of connections (from EITHER seeds or peers) will generally be faster (assuming one good seed).”

that’s true if the seed has unlimited upload bandwith available, but on average it isn’t.

compare these 2 cases, lets assume all seeds and peers have 100up and 200down:

1. 10 seeds and 10 peers
2. 100 seeds and 200 peers

In the most ideal situation the peers in case 1 will download at full speed and max out their connection (200). However, in case 2 the peers will only get 150 in the most ideal setting.

This is oversimplified, but it’s just the way it is

21 Jun 28, 2006 at 04:41 by Iceman

I have a problem with utorrent 1.5.1 lots of hash fails are happening at my place if somebody can help me how to reduce it thier help is welcome

22 Jun 28, 2006 at 07:22 by Ernesto

Iceman: It’s good to hear something from you other that bashing… ;)

1. Does it happen with all torrents? Even with linux distro’s? It could be a corrupt torrent

2. What router do you have? D-link?

3. Have you tried to upgrade to the latest RC?

23 Jun 30, 2006 at 09:20 by Stefano

I use utorrent and for me is the best torrent software!! Only 155Kb of software and 3,9Mb in RAM… WOW!!!

24 Jul 05, 2006 at 19:05 by CorrND

Is the max half-open TCP connections issue exclusively on SP2? Are there any SP1 patches that do the same thing?

25 Jul 05, 2006 at 20:51 by huh?

dis is a repeat blog of one posted ages ago…

26 Jul 07, 2006 at 19:24 by Yatti420

Good Job.. The Patch is not a virus? Who posted that 1? lol

27 Jul 08, 2006 at 08:49 by BinaryBrother

If any of you knew ANYTHING about TCP/IP settings… and how programs communicate with the internet, you would know your virus scanner is going to freak out on ANY program that tampers with such delecate settings… The patch is NOT a virus, nore a backdoor trojen. Nice tutorial. Actually increased Torrent speed slightly with a 1.2MB/s connection.

28 Jul 09, 2006 at 17:23 by arny

how do u change the half open option on azureus?or can yer?cheers

29 Jul 11, 2006 at 12:03 by Jeke

I use bitcomet, but I don’t know what is “Maximum connected peers” in Bitcommet, someone help me pls!.
what is “Max sessions per IP downloading(uploading) task”? it had already set 3 and 1

30 Jul 12, 2006 at 21:13 by random guy

[half-open tcp conenctions]
1) dis dont work on vista and prob. never will.
2) dis dont increase torrent download speed. it decreases time 2 start downloading cos wen u r downloading, u have completed connections, dey r not 1/2 open anymore.

31 Jul 18, 2006 at 19:56 by Ben

Reguardless of what people have posted about the virus I went ahead and installed the patch. and all I have to say is

Thnak You My torrents unfroze and are working the way they should.

32 Jul 19, 2006 at 17:10 by deepak kumar

great help but problem in port forwarding , as iam using emule and it also needs port forwarded so how can i map 2 port nos(1 for emule tcp and 1 for torrent)in tcp as it can forward 1 port.

33 Jul 22, 2006 at 23:04 by ?

???
1 byte = 8 bits! Look anywhere on the internet for that…
So kb/s = kB/s divided by 8, that is obvious and correct, ‘kB/s = kb/s multiplied by 8′ is also correct, not the reverse…

34 Jul 25, 2006 at 10:14 by anup

123

35 Jul 25, 2006 at 16:26 by ryba

máš to zavirovaný buzíku

36 Jul 26, 2006 at 10:41 by ???

1 feet = 12 inch
36 inch = 36/12 = 3 feet

concept obviously same as bytes and bits
therefore kB/s = kb/s divided by 8

37 Jul 27, 2006 at 14:44 by sam

i did all that and it did not help my speeds at all!!!

38 Jul 28, 2006 at 09:34 by al

Amazing article. Cleared out some of the questions i had in mind. Thank you very much.

39 Jul 31, 2006 at 18:53 by gioannou

Same as sam…
Anything else we could take into consideration?Like keeping the least open tasks at any time?

40 Aug 05, 2006 at 16:17 by Falken

[quote comment="7455"][half-open tcp conenctions]
1) dis dont work on vista and prob. never will.
2) dis dont increase torrent download speed. it decreases time 2 start downloading cos wen u r downloading, u have completed connections, dey r not 1/2 open anymore.[/quote]

I’d take you seriously if you didn’t type like you had a mental disease.

41 Aug 06, 2006 at 04:21 by farea

how do you change the settings changed by the patch manually!

42 Aug 08, 2006 at 16:47 by Jake

the patch is a real virus!!!. I ran that patch and I relize this patch automatic copy itself to Temp folder and other folder in my computer, I can’t delete them, some of them visible while some invisible, I only see them by seach tools. Be careful guys! good luck!!!

43 Aug 09, 2006 at 13:31 by Paul

Wow man thank you so much, after encryption my dl speed instantly tripled, F my ISP for capping my BT without telling me.

44 Aug 10, 2006 at 22:53 by sedrfgt

This is a really great site. Thanks! I ll be back soon!

45 Aug 27, 2006 at 02:49 by mike

“how do you change the settings changed by the patch manually!”

That is exactly what I was wondering. I bet it can’t be too complicated to manually do, so lets see it! Forget this file that might be a vivrus, how about sharing the source or how it can be done manually!

46 Aug 27, 2006 at 04:59 by Ultravires

Hey can someone explain what is the purpose of changing the net.max_halfopen from default 8 to 80? i have tried downloading with both configurations and haven’t really noticed a big speed increase from the default 8 to the change of 80, sometimes it seemed even faster at the default setting, so if anyone knows about this net.max_halfopen, please explain in the simplest terms possible. Thx. I have already changed the TCP part of winxp sp2 and i notice the speed increase from that change.

47 Aug 27, 2006 at 14:01 by steve

BEWARE! CRASHED WINDOWS,needed to reinstall windows after following above info.

48 Aug 27, 2006 at 15:07 by Ernesto

[quote comment="10693"]Hey can someone explain what is the purpose of changing the net.max_halfopen from default 8 to 80? i have tried downloading with both configurations and haven’t really noticed a big speed increase from the default 8 to the change of 80, sometimes it seemed even faster at the default setting, so if anyone knows about this net.max_halfopen, please explain in the simplest terms possible. Thx. I have already changed the TCP part of winxp sp2 and i notice the speed increase from that change.[/quote]

allows you to connect to more ip’s at the same time

49 Aug 27, 2006 at 18:51 by Alfredo

Can this also be done with Windows 2000? How?

50 Aug 28, 2006 at 14:05 by nathan

hi i have bitcomet 0.70t and have downloaded some tv series. i can get them to preview in bitcomet but cant get them to play when opening on my computer. WHY

51 Aug 28, 2006 at 15:01 by Ernesto

[quote comment="10822"]hi i have bitcomet 0.70t and have downloaded some tv series. i can get them to preview in bitcomet but cant get them to play when opening on my computer. WHY[/quote]

Try it with VLC media player

52 Aug 29, 2006 at 23:53 by madarch

hai.. i’ve tried the download/upload test and it says that my download speed is lower than my upload speed. I wondered why cos my DSL line speed should be around 100.0 Mbps..Any help pls..thks!

53 Sep 02, 2006 at 18:48 by jason

i followed this guide precisely and although it did improve my speed the diffence between before and after is not much. So could it be that i might of done something wrong or is there something else please help!

54 Sep 03, 2006 at 17:50 by my

@Sachin:
Sorry to say but:

“kb/s = kB/s multiplied by 8″ or
“kB/s = kb/s divided by 8″

is also wrong!!!
Because 1024 Byte=1 KB and 1000 bit=1 kb so everything with 8 is wrong
right is 8*1024/1000=8,192 bzw. bei Mb und MB 8*1024^2/1000^2=8,388608
so right is:

kb/s = kB/s * 8,192
kB/s = kb/s / 8,192

55 Sep 08, 2006 at 18:08 by mainhy

Can we get a definitve answer as to which one of these is correct?

kb/s = kB/s multiplied by 8″
kB/s = kb/s divided by 8″

or

kb/s = kB/s * 8,192
kB/s = kb/s / 8,192

56 Sep 17, 2006 at 03:12 by John Harper Jr

I really appreciated this advice. At first I was concerned by all of the virus reports, but I ran a scan. The scan came back negative so I took a chance. The patch and tweaks worked great and now my normal download speed of around 100kbs is up to around 180kbs.

57 Sep 19, 2006 at 14:12 by Eddie

Good article, d\l link is missing www.
http://lvllord.de/?lang=en&url=downloads
should be: http://www.lvllord.de/?lang=en&url=downloads

Thanks.
Eddie.

58 Sep 22, 2006 at 01:10 by HelloKiddies

Does anyone know what is the best download speed inorder to get highest upload speed? (i’m trying to increase my ratio w/ a website and i’m not having much luck.)

59 Sep 26, 2006 at 15:55 by Nike

I have 200 in max half open on my computer buth on torrent is 43 i have there :D

60 Sep 26, 2006 at 20:30 by Neo

F..k, that was a backdoor hacking tool virus, i scanned it with f-secure 2006!
Don’t install guys…
and remember… Don’t fuck with the WINDOWS folder!

61 Sep 26, 2006 at 23:36 by Elistas

For crying out loud, here are the FACTS:

The lvllord.de patch IS NOT A VIRUS. There is nothing malicious about it whatsoever. Anti-virus programs don’t like it because once your system is patched, worms can spread much faster than with only 10 max half-open connections.

Windows XP and SP1 are not limited to 10 half-open connections. This was introduced with SP2.

Only download the patch from http://www.lvllord.de because there are altered versions out there that DO include viruses and/or malware.

Elistas

62 Sep 27, 2006 at 08:20 by John Paul

I am so confussed on how to set my upload and download speed on bittorrent!

First off how do i calculate my speed…. i mean is there a site that does this for you, is it in a manual i dont own?

Q.. How do you find out your maxium upload and download speed????

63 Sep 28, 2006 at 19:48 by Elistas

[quote comment="13381"]I am so confussed on how to set my upload and download speed on bittorrent!

First off how do i calculate my speed…. i mean is there a site that does this for you, is it in a manual i dont own?

Q.. How do you find out your maxium upload and download speed????[/quote]

The website of your Internet provider should list your connection speed. For example, I use Shaw High-Speed Internet and at their site (http://www.shaw.ca/en-ca/ProductsServices/Internet/) it shows that my max download speed is 5Mb/s and my max upload speed is 512Kb/s.

If their website doesn’t show your speeds, you can call them to find out. But it’s not really that important to have the correct settings in your BitTorrent client. Just set it to the closest of what you think it might be.

Elistas

64 Oct 09, 2006 at 03:37 by The Kast One

I just got Bit Tornado and im wondering why my torrents download so slow..they download like at 0kb-1kb-2kb a second. 2kb if im lucky..whats tha deal? I have cablespeed internet too. Can someone help me out here. The seeds and leechers are both pretty high..

65 Oct 12, 2006 at 10:17 by Charlie

Hi this may be a stupid question but I need help!!
On my first torrent download I was getting a 64kb/s download but I went to make another download the day after and only got 2-3kb/s WHY??
Please help!!

66 Oct 15, 2006 at 20:44 by Mark

You probably already mentioned how to to do this, but how would you encrypt the files on just the regular Bittorrent Client?

67 Oct 17, 2006 at 09:51 by qwer

Best site in bleep! My thnx to webmasters.
Thanks for nice and actual info’ Be the Best!

68 Oct 22, 2006 at 15:12 by auto

Appreciate it men!

69 Oct 26, 2006 at 10:35 by alan3dintel

Hey Ernesto or others: I am experiencing drastic flucuating Byte rates within Azureus. I can not hold a steady rate, it constantly flucuates from ~120kB/s down to 0 kB/s. Typically, it will stay at 0 kB/s for 10-20 secs. then start to climb, hold for about 5 secs at 50 – 100 kB/s then gradually shoot back to 0, then repeat the cycle. Is this normal? If not, any suggestions? It is consistant with every download, regardless of seeds vs. leeches (although this matters!). I am using Azureus with a speakeasy.net tested Download speed of 8600 kbite = 1075 kByte/sec and an Upload speed of 529 kbite/sec = 66k Bytes/sec. I am on port 1720, and have followed all your recommended ratios. I have windows set to handle 100 connections. Thanks in advance and great work!

70 Nov 06, 2006 at 08:17 by kenny

what if my univrsity dont allow bittorent (or any P2P prog) to be run? coz its like the p2p app has been blocked and the download will not start even when the seeders are plenty.. can any1 help me?

71 Nov 18, 2006 at 16:44 by tolga7t

wow this certainly helped alot. very much appreciated

72 Nov 24, 2006 at 11:54 by victor

Great guide! But I got one question.
What about the “Global maximum number of connections:” setting in uTorrent?

73 Nov 27, 2006 at 21:48 by mis

nice artical. My download speed went from 5kbs to 150kbs after I did all of these settings. lmfao thanks

74 Nov 29, 2006 at 04:24 by rgie

ey mates i tried all of the above steps to make my dl’s faster but it made it slower?!? did i do anything wrong? i used to be able to dl at around 50kB now im down to 1 please help

75 Dec 02, 2006 at 04:35 by Little

[quote comment="11775"]Can we get a definitve answer as to which one of these is correct?

kb/s = kB/s multiplied by 8″
kB/s = kb/s divided by 8″

or

kb/s = kB/s * 8,192
kB/s = kb/s / 8,192[/quote]

Officially, 1 kB/s = 8 kb/s. Therefore:

kb/s = kB/s multiplied by 8″
kB/s = kb/s divided by 8″

If you still don’t believe me check the google converter, type this in: 1 kB to kb

76 Dec 10, 2006 at 09:05 by Van

Wow the speeds do increase, but not very much. Thank you for the tip!

77 Dec 14, 2006 at 21:27 by granit

i am using bitcomet 0.79 but when i download games my download speed go just to 9 kb\s

78 Dec 22, 2006 at 19:03 by ActionJaxon

Ain’t it great the number of posts on here commenting about the ‘virus’ in the patch, clearly didn’t read the article…

79 Jan 06, 2007 at 05:53 by evan

Scan taken on 06 Jan 2007 04:49:55 (GMT)
AntiVir Found nothing
ArcaVir Found nothing
Avast Found nothing
AVG Antivirus Found HackTool.AB (because it IS hacking your maxhalfopen tcp connections)
BitDefender Found nothing
ClamAV Found nothing
Dr.Web Found nothing
F-Prot Antivirus Found nothing
F-Secure Anti-Virus Found nothing
Fortinet Found Evid (evid is not a virus, just a potential threat *cuz its a hack*)
Kaspersky Anti-Virus Found nothing
NOD32 Found Win32/Tool.EvID4226 application (The patch modifies files in win32)
Norman Virus Control Found nothing
VirusBuster Found nothing
VBA32 Found nothing

Cleared, not a virus.

80 Jan 06, 2007 at 22:19 by Jayyed

ok i need help. i think i set something wrong. my utorrent download speed is very sluggish. someone help.

my connection speed is 4000.
and my download rate is 420.
im not sure about how many peers i allow…

can someone help me figure out what im doing wrong?

81 Jan 11, 2007 at 16:49 by Helkar

every _bit_ is a value of 1 or 0.
every _byte_ is made of 8 bits, and thus can be 2^8=256 different numbers from 0 to 255.
learn programming :)

82 Jan 13, 2007 at 14:40 by ExXxtreme

I’m using BitTorrent as client but I want to change to uTorrent. Do I have to wait untill all files in BitTorrent are downloaded before I can uninstall BitTorent and install uTorrent or will uTorrent keep downloading the files from BitTorent when I don’t have them for 100%?

83 Jan 15, 2007 at 06:02 by ian

Im currently using Shaw with bitcomet’s encryption system and it still is throttling my DL speeds. It won’t let me go any higher that 100kbps. mind u i’m on Shaw Extreme-I so i should be getting a lot more (up to 10mbps)
Any workaround with this?

84 Jan 15, 2007 at 17:28 by Mike

sorry for being so thick but if i have a 7.9Mbs connection what settings do i need?

85 Jan 18, 2007 at 21:43 by MAD~

The article says nothing about max torrents queued or started.

86 Jan 21, 2007 at 05:40 by gary

nice article dude!
my DL speed jumped from 12,15,16…kb/s to 33kb/s!
and about the virus thing, it did not affect anything in my pc and did not detected it as a virus or a threath!
thanx!

87 Jan 23, 2007 at 18:52 by Paddy

thank you so much! my download speed was like down to 1Kb/s – 5Kb/s when i changed ISP , now its back to how was like with my old ISP , usually around 20+kb/s , sometimes 40+ .. not the greatest but ain’t complaining , i havent got the best connection speed..

88 Jan 25, 2007 at 18:31 by matrix20xx

Hi, i did the patch but it shows “Error in writing to file:%systemRoot%\system32\driver
\TCPIP.sys.original”.

How do I resolve this solution.

89 Jan 27, 2007 at 07:05 by indignatz

Hey man,
If I took all the half pennies at the banks created by exchange rate conversion and converted them to kb, how many kb would I have?

90 Jan 31, 2007 at 17:35 by eXe

I have the same problem as matrix20xx. Can anyone help?

91 Feb 02, 2007 at 07:42 by me

wow, Im only on step one, and WOW!

92 Feb 04, 2007 at 20:39 by Jrad

I’ve got vista and the tcp wont work on vista, I’ve even tried in safe mode as well. Is there a 4224 patch yet available for Vista? Help me out please, Thanks.
keep up the great work.

93 Feb 05, 2007 at 13:48 by auleep

hey…when i try n run the patch…an erroe occurs n it doesnt run. what shud i do?

94 Feb 06, 2007 at 12:35 by 3DsMaXeR

Hi
i have 1.2mb\s and did the patch thing and i did the tcp on bitlord and i still have very low speed like 4kb/s
it drives me crazy
please help!!!!!!

95 Feb 08, 2007 at 05:28 by ophamlau

we should find a solution to improve our download speed rite?not to find which is rite,kb Kb 8 8*1024 or whatever….

96 Feb 15, 2007 at 20:37 by John

Load of crap….. Don’t bother!

97 Feb 16, 2007 at 03:12 by Chrimson

it isnt a load of crap unless you dont have xp installed the tweaker you need to play with but the patcher is not a virus and it does work just fine anyone who says it does not should shut off the computer (if the morons can find the button) and back away b4 they hurt themselves or the computer
LEARN TO USE THE THING YOUR TYPING ON ffs

98 Feb 17, 2007 at 07:46 by Jc

why is that wheneevr i download something and if it reaches to 72% – 75%.. its downloading speed drops from 31kB/s to 0.3kB/s – 1.2kB/s..

wahhh..

could somebody help me how can i fix this..

99 Feb 18, 2007 at 04:22 by KeWAl

Crazy page
really works guys
if this page was a girl i would have slept with it

100 Feb 18, 2007 at 13:24 by Killer

The patch once applied cannot be uninstalled. it stays. i have tried it a lots of time, and could not successfuly uninstall the patch. My upload speeds go crazy, and Slows down every thing else, and after applying the patch i cannot control the upload speeds through a torrent client. I just have to Reinstall XP to undo the patch.

101 Feb 18, 2007 at 21:38 by seamus

could someone please help me? i ran the patch and now my internet browser cannot find the srever, i can connect to the internet but cant access it

102 Feb 23, 2007 at 03:24 by Dave

When I downloaded this it asked to restart the computer and now i have like no seeds on my torrents and computer is lagging real bad. any help?

103 Feb 23, 2007 at 08:27 by Jay

I was wondering if you can help me out to do the same with Azureus. I am having trouble with that??

104 Feb 26, 2007 at 19:29 by othello

before i download a torrent, how can i check if my Creative Zen music player can support it.i have downloaded mant things only for it to say that my player does not support it. its very fustrating.Also why half way through a download does the green download arrow turn to red ?

thanx OTHELLO

105 Feb 27, 2007 at 08:39 by CRE8IV

This website is DEAD ON CORRECT for those of you who are just learning. Just re read it and you will be good to go. Also you have to remember that these settings are going to work differently for everyone so just tweak them a bit. I learned myself from a post just like this about a year an a half ago and when I started on my own I was downloading at about 28 to 47 TOPS! After following these same instructions I downloaded a 4GB dvd iso in under an hour at 320 – 500 TOPS!

But now I am in need of help again. Is there ANYONE that has heard anything about being able to have more connections in Vista? Because if not I am going to SERIOUSLY be BUMMED…lol Vista is sooo pretty..lol but I will go back to XP because I NEED my TORRENTS!
HELP!

106 Feb 27, 2007 at 19:11 by UnderMiner

Well, read the post and found it a little helpful but, not much. Tried out the patch and it didn’t do anything for my dl ratio but then again it wasn’t bad to begin with but when it comes to the download ratio form web-pages it worked wonders. Getting the things faster is always nice when you download big files.

“patch is a virus”.. F.U.A… it is no virus and it’s easy to remove the files created by it… use UnLocker… it’s free and can be found on the net.

Computers will never take the place of books. You can’t stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf.

107 Mar 01, 2007 at 10:36 by Yoricko

This improved my torrent download speed by x20! This helped me alot thanks!

108 Mar 10, 2007 at 06:55 by Narodnik

With Bit Comet, you can set the tcp/ip thing without using that patch. It’s in Bit Comet version 0.84.

The patch is also not a virus, tho my AV also thought it was when it scanned it. The thing is, my XP SP2 had 50 open – and in the DOS screen that the patch initiated, it asked if I wanted to change 50 to 10. I had previously applied that patch. Normally, a windows update should reverse the setting back, but mine did not do this. I had 50.

109 Mar 10, 2007 at 06:56 by Narodnik

I also have a question that someone else asked.

Max connections and
Global max connections

I see no option to change the number of peers. Please EMAIL ME if you have Bit Comet directions for this, if you can see the email above.

Thanks

110 Mar 12, 2007 at 18:50 by fast&furious

the patch is not a virus and it works well for me,i have update to 50 TCP connection and now my utorrent is DL-ing at a avg 70-80 KB/s

thank you :)

111 Mar 19, 2007 at 04:26 by aranel

I have to tell you all. This works! i was getting downloads of 1 -18 at the most and the 18 was for only a split second. now i’m at 37 !!

112 Mar 21, 2007 at 09:04 by Aditya

Hey can anyone help me on ow to use Torrent in office .. Usually office’s firewall such P2P activities .. Any idea how how I can bypass this ????

113 Mar 22, 2007 at 07:29 by Defender of Intelligence

[quote comment="27015"][quote comment="11775"]Can we get a definitve answer as to which one of these is correct?

kb/s = kB/s multiplied by 8″
kB/s = kb/s divided by 8″

or

kb/s = kB/s * 8,192
kB/s = kb/s / 8,192[/quote]

Officially, 1 kB/s = 8 kb/s. Therefore:

kb/s = kB/s multiplied by 8″
kB/s = kb/s divided by 8″

If you still don’t believe me check the google converter, type this in:

1 kB to kb[/quote]

Moron. What is 1 kB/s multiplied by 8? 8kB/s. What is 1kb/s multiplied by 8? 1kB/s. What you said does not equal what you wrote as a formula. The correct formula is:

1kb/s = 1kB/s divided by 8
1kB/s = 1kb/s multiplied by 8

Still don’t believe me? Use simple algebra to make both sides equal. If you’re still having trouble, consider the above table in this format:

8kb/s = 1kB/s
(1/8)kB/s = 1kb/s

This whole thing was fine in the article, quit being ‘tards.

114 Mar 26, 2007 at 12:27 by Rockhead

Ok, I changed all the settings detailed. Did a reboot. But now my torrents are downloading at about 10kb/s and before the changes they were about 100kb/s. The swarm average speed is 390kb/s. What’s going on?! I tried changing the settings back but still only 10kb/s second. How annoying.

115 Mar 27, 2007 at 06:23 by diamondd

great article, its definantly increased my speeds. patcher worked as it should. thanks

116 Mar 27, 2007 at 23:01 by Cena

Help me please, i downloaded a prison break torrent on Bit Comet but i cant find it when i browse the destination directory, please someone tell me whats the problem, it took over 3 hours to download and has a green circile beside it! Whats the problem please help!

117 Apr 01, 2007 at 18:43 by lol

i love arguments on the internet, makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. and probably outside too. har

118 Apr 02, 2007 at 02:44 by Danny

[quote comment="6456"]Nice article ..except for this slight mistake “kb/s = kB/s divided by 8″ … It should have been :
“kb/s = kB/s multiplied by 8″ or
“kB/s = kb/s divided by 8″[/quote]

Big friggin deal.

119 Apr 10, 2007 at 22:25 by santi_G

to those who were sayin that the patch was a virus: u guys dont know shit..so better keep ur ideas to urselves.. i hate amateurs

120 Apr 23, 2007 at 13:34 by Arvin the dud

PLease can anyone tell me whats my problem here. Im using bit comet and im always trying to increase its speed. It used to download up to the speed of 30kb per sec. I dont know why but suddenly the speed drops to zero and never rises. Anyone who can help me please e mail me at arvin_1108@hotmail.com

121 Apr 30, 2007 at 07:10 by Sum Yung Gai

To those having problems with Windows either being slow or requiring patches to speed up BitTorrent:

Just use GNU/Linux or *BSD, and that problem will go away. Their TCP/IP stacks don’t have artificial limitations imposed on them, and they work *GREAT*. For Windows users, I’d recommend Kubuntu.

122 May 04, 2007 at 15:10 by John

For Vista, I found an article which mentions to set TCP/IP auto tuning to Highly Restricted instead of disabling it completely.

http://thinkabdul.com/2007/05/04/bittorrent-p2p-tips-tricks-optimize-increase-bittorrent-p2p-download-throughput-and-speed-in-windows-vista/

Has anyone tried which setting is adivsable?

123 May 06, 2007 at 12:06 by albert hubble

Firstly I had only downloaded three
audio torrents b 4 reading these tips and was getting download speeds of 3 or 4 Kbs. Now I get 400plus Kbs.
What did I do?
Used port 18114
turned on encription, limited downloads to 500kbs
limited uploads to 400kbs
max connections to 200
maxed peers per torrent to 100
upload slots to 10
active torrent downloads to 1 at a time.
maxed half open TCP to 50.

124 May 17, 2007 at 19:15 by venu

Hi ppl,

After changing my settings…i can’t dl @ full speed..
Plz help me..venu43@gmail.com

125 May 19, 2007 at 15:47 by sujay

well i have a doubt..my connection speed is 256kb/s n i get d speed of 32kB/s..bt sumtimes it also goes to 37kB/s ..bt my frnd hu has d same speed as i do gt speed of 75kBps 1ce…hw can i get tht much speed?..plss help me out

126 May 19, 2007 at 15:52 by sujay

i use utorrent..plss reply on tht basis…

127 May 19, 2007 at 15:52 by sujay

i use utorrent..plss reply on tht basis…ghost_cornwallis2000@yahoo.com…plsss help me out

128 May 31, 2007 at 02:50 by Leonard Challis

Thanks a lot. just went from 6kB/sec to 60kB sec :)

129 Jun 09, 2007 at 09:53 by KUSA

When I connect to the internet it shows that I am connected at 100Mbps.
But, when I download a Torrent or anything else the download speeed is hardly 15 – 20 KB/s.
Could someone please tell me why this happens

130 Jun 13, 2007 at 22:11 by Siyaa

I love you, dude! That patch and your tips put me up from 6 kB/s to about 75-80 kB/s. Thank you very much!

131 Jun 25, 2007 at 19:39 by arg

Patch contains a virus. It does max your connections but I lost my graphic driver after installing it (block at 640*480 or 800*600) if it’s happens just re-install your graphic drivers. :(

132 Jun 26, 2007 at 19:31 by BinaryBrother

First off, let me explain a couple things to the Newbie users out there. The patch contained within this page, is NOT a virus. The patch DOES NOT interfere with ANY other settings, than connection information. Meaning, that there is NO WAY in hell it could ‘crash’ your graphics card. That’s like saying “I put a floppy in my computer, and the monitor busted into flames…”. Also, TCPIP.SYS is the only file that is affected AFTER the patch is complete (I think). You may notice TEMP directories and other anomalies, as you would with ANY program, especially using a decompression agent (If it does). The Patch WILL NOT crash ANYTHING, unless something happens in the middle of altering the file, such as a power failure. Then the blame lies in the failure, not in the patch. In any case, you only need re-run the application, to fix your internet (If it will not work), and finish the job. On WinXP you may notice a file dialog box, that says you need to insert your WinXP CD to replace and important file that has been altered. Hit the ‘Cancel’ button, because this is just an effect of the program altering sensitive settings within a file deemed important by XP. Also, DO NOT use BitLord, BitSpirit, or other generics. Use uTorrent, BitComet, or Azureus. The rest do NOT support encryption, and are cheap copies. I have had read many reports of encryption increasing speeds by up to 300%. BitLord, BitSpirit, and etc, do NOT support encryption. Whereas uTorrent, BitComet, and Azureus DO. Let me make this FINAL and CLEAR. THE PATCH IS NOT A TROJEN, WORM, VIRUS, BACKDOOR, or ANYTHING OTHER THAN A GOOD, PERFECTLY WORKING, PATCH. All those newbie users out there, who see that Virus warning and do not realize that everyone here is trying to tell you that AV programs are so secure about code anymore, they are NOT always right. I only hope to educate. Thank you all for reading this… Happy Torrenting! BinaryBrother

133 Jul 02, 2007 at 01:18 by Vy

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134 Jul 08, 2007 at 23:44 by Leviathin

Great tips, I worked before with a max 20kB/s upload rate before and unlimited download rate, also a 5000 max peer connections, 8 max upload connections and 1000 max overall connections.

After using your tips my download speed deteriorated dramatically.

The only thing that I benefited from this article was a bit of knowledge and the great tip of patching the max half-open connection limit (which by the way increased my download speed by up to 4x)!!!

Keep up the great articles which should I mention; there are three on this topic which are nearly identical::

http://torrentfreak.com/speed-up-your-torrents/
http://torrentfreak.com/speed-up-your-torrents/

Oh and I found another article on the web again almost-nearly identical, not sure if this site copied from them or they copied from you, but this site sure does include more in-depth information. Here’s the link, just thought you might want to take a look:

http://www.johntp.com/2006/04/19/how-to-increase-download-speeds-of-utorrent/

Oh and I should add that the patch IS NOT a virus, my BitDefender Antivirus Plus v10 detected it as one, only meerly because it deals with advanced settings inside windows which are fragile. And since my Antivirus is so god-damn protective of my system ^.^ I had to set default settings on the anti-virus so it wouldn’t scan incoming http:// traffic, download the patch, disconnect my internet (so I wouldn’t be vulnerable to hackers), and then exit bitdefender, and patch, otherwise the anti-virus program would scan the patch right when I clicked on it, quarantine it then remove it.

Great tips and to others with the same anti-virus program as me I hope this helped!!!

135 Jul 14, 2007 at 12:21 by Guest

Aww do I loooooooove virustotal.com, half of he results said that this WAS a virus and some even said it was a hacktool! I deleted the file without even opening it. HA!

136 Aug 04, 2007 at 05:07 by tony

hi, i’m just using bittorent, the program i downloaded from the bittorent website

where can I choose on the program how to control my max upload speed? all i see is “file, view, torrent, help”

your help will be greatly appreciated thanks!

137 Aug 10, 2007 at 07:09 by Nealloy

i did all of this fucking thinks but nothing change my utorrent speed. still i have got 12kb/sec.i m really pissed.

138 Aug 18, 2007 at 06:32 by Hamed

this guide is pretty good , thanks a lot .

139 Aug 30, 2007 at 08:04 by YuckFow

Great guide!

Biggest difference for me was changing the cap on my upload speeds. I went from about 10 to 100kb/s.

the only thing I didnt do was the patch. I can live with slow dl speeds, what I can’t live with is reinstalling windows and losing all of my files.

140 Aug 30, 2007 at 15:18 by jason

i done everything that was said to be done and my download still dosn’t start can anyone help

141 Sep 04, 2007 at 12:27 by A wise man does once what a fool does twice

this is a great article alot of help towards sorting out these damn slownesses lol

but i wudnt use the hacking tools

listen to me, dont mess with windows files or ya computer reli,

i used to be the master,
at making my computer faster,

but then i fooled around modding files with programs that you cant reli still trust regardless of what ppl have been saying. so den i became…

the master,
of diaster!!!

lol but you get what am saying so take it easy

142 Sep 08, 2007 at 10:41 by leigh

how can i uninstall this patch??!?? pleeeaase! answer me!!

143 Sep 09, 2007 at 14:21 by Quintox

@Leigh if you would have payed attention with the instal and READ everything that it was showing you you would know how to change it back by patch OR manually.. people are to lazy to read these days and come with HELPME!!!#$!@ posts

144 Sep 12, 2007 at 15:59 by rhese

nice article…usefull…didnt download the patch tho..
i manually modified the settings
and for anyone who’s wondering, this patch dosent work for vista. if ur using vista and want an effecient way to speed up yer torrent download, then its simple, get a faster connection. !

ALL ISP’S THAT LIMIT BT’S CONNETION ARE GAY. THAT’S THE REALITY..

145 Sep 23, 2007 at 02:45 by Revo

Wow I’ve never seen so many ignorant uninformed people in my life. How stupid could one be? First of all its not a virus all it does is patch your tcpip.sys if you were to do this manually you would have to open tcpip.sys in a hex editor and byte hack it. If you are so worried about a couple of blatant false positives use XP-Antispy which includes an option to set max connection limits just like the patcher does.
All the half-open connection does is set how many different peers it tries to connect to at the same time decreasing the startup speed of your torrent nothing else.
The article contains clear instructions with pictures anyone should be able to pick it up and do it. I also saw somebody ask why it says when they connect online they have a 100Mpbs connection but only download at 4Kb…WOW just WOW, that’s the speed available on your LAN(LOCAL AREA NETWORK) not your actual internet speeds. Use speedtest.net if you want to know your actual speeds.
The settings listed in the article will affect everyone differently as there are hundreds if not thousands of factors to consider, like ISP, connection type, NIC, OS and OS configuration, current usage, network congestion, torrent health, seeds/peers etc etc etc the list goes on and on…hope this provides at LEAST a little insight

146 Sep 23, 2007 at 02:47 by Revo

Shit type from my previous post
“All the half-open connection does is set how many different peers it tries to connect to at the same time decreasing the startup speed of your torrent nothing else.”
should really be
decreasing the startup TIME of your torrent, sorry bout that

147 Sep 25, 2007 at 02:57 by phylwx

This was really helpfull!

Thanks a lot!

148 Oct 10, 2007 at 22:05 by srbh

hi,
i was downloadin a movie but had to uninsatll the torrent due to some reason…
now how to add the torrent agian n start downloa from where it left…..

149 Oct 13, 2007 at 10:31 by jule

that patch program is a virus. it deleted my system volume information -.-

150 Oct 14, 2007 at 05:00 by Michael

This patch is destructive to a virus called Win32/XP or Win32/Vista. It wipes it out then downloads an Operating System such a Ubuntu. It installs that.

151 Oct 16, 2007 at 17:25 by Nipunfernando

This is very useful to me
thanks i will send it to
my friends also!

152 Oct 21, 2007 at 22:52 by DAVE

This info is really great. It got my download speeds from around 67 kB/s to almost 200 kB/s Thanks for putting all of this together.

153 Oct 25, 2007 at 04:46 by Royce Dubois

Thanks a ton man. I had known of torrents for a long time and had never gotten around to using one because:

1. Nothing ever seemed to download for me and it all seemed confusing.

2. Limewire, Kazaa, etc. always had what I needed, regardless of the fact that I spent more time fighting viruses when I used them than having fun.

Thanks a ton man, you really got me moving now and I actually understand all of this now.

154 Oct 25, 2007 at 06:15 by Brenden

I followed everything and it worked GREAT… except that TCP optimizer.. just made everything slow again… how can i undo what it did?

155 Nov 04, 2007 at 01:20 by Alex

I love you. you tripled my speeds. But i still see peers d/ling at 300-500 kBps… Y?

156 Nov 04, 2007 at 06:13 by Arniceous

after runiing XP antispy and patching with evid4226 I lost my network and now xp cant creat a network with the wizard, system restore will not allow me to go back to an earlyer restore point as well. but my torrents are downloading through Utorrent much fast now. We may have to buy a wireless printer now for lappy to be able to print :( any ideas?

157 Nov 17, 2007 at 12:23 by Drgon

Hello I must say great info here I just have one question.
I use Bitcomet 0.96 . How do I go about Changeing the default port? I know my isp has ports for p2p all most crushed closed (know one of there people). I thank you for the time you have taken to give us this info, and hope I get a fast reply.

Drgon

158 Nov 18, 2007 at 09:57 by Andrius

thank you for a great tips! it really work`s!

159 Nov 24, 2007 at 03:18 by Sana

Awesome article. I learned a few things from reading it.

<3

160 Nov 24, 2007 at 06:39 by Anonymous

great article thats sure thing however best solution to dload torrents faster is simply be a member of a good private tracker where ppl take care of the ratio they have and rather seed than just lech…

161 Nov 26, 2007 at 19:14 by click

marital snorkel Judas referentiality translated .

162 Nov 29, 2007 at 23:59 by Drugrunner

I’m not particularly fond of jews.

163 Nov 30, 2007 at 12:50 by cinome

I read the whole thing. I will try and see what happens. Thank you to all those of you who know about the subject and want to positively help–especially those who have a benign spirit.

164 Dec 01, 2007 at 03:05 by M

I followed the instructions partically and noticed a jump from around 70kB/s to 150kB/s. I later finished the remainder of instructions and utorrent required me to restart the program.
It restarted with slower download speeds (30kB/s or so) and higher upload speeds (80kB/s or so).
15 minutes in and the speeds started changing.
I am now downloading varying between 200kB/s and 300kB/s and uploading at 50kB/s.
Those of you who are complaining about speeds… give it time.
I’d still like to sneak closer to my prime 400kB/s.
Every so often I’ll download a file at + 800kB/s.. or more usually multiple files totalling around 800kB/s.

Any ideas how to get THESE speeds from utorrent?

165 Dec 01, 2007 at 17:46 by anon

tried these suggestions this evening and they’re great. consistent download speed and my uploads are 1.5 times faster win/win thanks!

166 Dec 02, 2007 at 11:50 by Bob

Great Article, helped me alot!
About the virus, I haven’t experienced any virus effect and I am running MacaFee and AVG also, before you run the patch I suggest you backup the C:/WINDOWS/System32/Drives/tcpip.sys
file. I always make backups of eevery file that has been edited in the Windows Folder.

167 Dec 08, 2007 at 13:37 by Mave

do these TIP also apply to Windows Vista ?

168 Dec 08, 2007 at 19:32 by reurigoobby

I’d prefer reading in my native language, because my knowledge of your languange is no so well. But it was interesting!

169 Dec 14, 2007 at 02:36 by Edmond Dantes

Thanks for creating this, Ernest. I consider the tips listed on this site to be quite interesting and beneficial.
However, I’d love to download that TCP thing but I’m honestly afraid that it will harm my computer in some way. A few people have shunned it, while others have agreed that it is a healthy file.
I guess what I’m really trying to say, Ernest, is…
Can I trust you, brother?

170 Dec 15, 2007 at 01:13 by ZoEb

After initially approving it I am taking back my comments on this patch.

I have observed it’s behaviour. Although it DOES change the max no of open connections in TCPIP.sys, it’s a virus.

Bit Defender kept blocking it from executing itself several times even hours after I applied the patch.

171 Dec 15, 2007 at 19:52 by Shaan

In just downliading a torrent, but i have upload speed too, something is uploading from my pc. i wanna know what is going ot from my computer when it says 20 Mb uploaded and to be continued ?

172 Dec 15, 2007 at 20:09 by zeke

Tried them all, been there done that, But I found the upload slot calc to at least double my speed on those slow ones! Nice One!!

173 Dec 16, 2007 at 08:37 by Paige

I found helpful info and software on the highspeedtorrent.com site. Worked great!

174 Dec 19, 2007 at 19:38 by reurigoobby

I’d prefer reading in my native language, because my knowledge of your languange is no so well. But it was interesting! Look for some my links:

175 Dec 23, 2007 at 13:22 by Anonymous

thanx but no thanx more confused than ever now

176 Dec 24, 2007 at 05:17 by Anonymous

you are our saver

thank you very much for ur kindness

hope u can come out with another new forum soon

177 Dec 25, 2007 at 14:35 by silver

Hi! I am from India.
Thanks for the info. I doubled my speed thanks to you. Cheers!

http://madhuri-dixit.110mb.com

178 Dec 29, 2007 at 05:39 by BTW

When you are d/ling with torrents, USE A WIRED CONNECTION. EVEN THOUGH YOUR WIRELESS CARD SAYS 54 mb/s or even like 1 mb/s it limits it to only 5% of the whole speed. so if i use a 54 mb/s router and wireless card, it will only be 2.7 mb/s or with 1 mb/s it will only be about 50 kb/s. Oh yeah. Use Utorrent if your unexperienced. it is the easiest for speed priority

179 Dec 30, 2007 at 14:29 by Zepce-b3a5t

It really works! My uTorrent used to download at speed around 100 kB/s, and drop until it reachs flat zero. Now the speed doesn’t drop under 80 kB/s, and it will not i hope so.

180 Dec 30, 2007 at 14:33 by Zepce-b3a5t

I was wrong, it wipes down to zero again…

181 Jan 01, 2008 at 15:37 by SJ

Thanks, a great post.
It was worth reading all of the 180 responses, I couldn’t stop laughing.
It was a good start for the new year!
Happy new year to every one.

182 Jan 01, 2008 at 21:11 by =[

it doesnt work for me the patch is useless

i have mcafee personal firewall mcafee virus scan enterprise updated intel pentium 3 at 933 mhz geforce 4 mx 440 64 mb on agp 2x very slow

os: windows xp pro sp3 beta
full key

183 Jan 02, 2008 at 18:33 by Ydrol

IMO “upload slots” calculation is too high. You want other peers to see you as a “favourable peer”, that means not spreading your upload too thinly and just apeearing as another slow peer.

Keep it low, and you appear to be faster, and other faster peers may in turn find you more attractive.

I have mine set to ‘3′ regardless of upload speed. Not sure if thats best, but my hunch is the lower the better.

184 Jan 04, 2008 at 16:01 by KL

hey
after patching those stop
my downloads stopped!
n i no longer can connect to any seeder n peers!
what should i do??
the port is changed now but to no avail

i am behind a new[but an older version ] router
Internet’s working fine but i cant BT any more wtf

185 Jan 04, 2008 at 20:55 by holyguacamole

for those who say this is a virus and those who question if this works or not! i got this patch about four months ago my eset nod32 virus scan said this is a virus but obviously this patch messes with regisrty files so it will tell you that its a virus(if it doesnt get new virus software)but you may not notice a difference in speed or connection but the patch does work. i have fast internet so when i downloaded with my internet capped at 32kbps and installed the patch my connection went to 230kbps. but others may not notice that big of a difference. the point.its safe download and does work.

186 Jan 05, 2008 at 17:54 by Crystal Red Shrimp Lover

This patch is great, it really improve the download from http://www.silaneshrimp.com

187 Jan 12, 2008 at 18:24 by Twike

The patch worked well for me. Anyone who have crashed there computer might want to think about what they are downloading on bittorrent. :)

188 Jan 13, 2008 at 17:46 by David Smith

can someon tell me if port forwardng coud cause my computer any problems?
Id appreciate it!!

189 Jan 16, 2008 at 22:12 by s7x

thank you it worked

190 Jan 22, 2008 at 22:38 by Anonymous

[quote comment="265125"]thank you

it worked[/quote]
[quote comment="262423"]can someon tell me if port forwardng coud cause my computer any problems?
Id appreciate it!![/quote]

191 Jan 30, 2008 at 22:25 by casco

[quote comment="6472"]“So 50 seeds and 50 peers is better than 500 seeds and 1000 peers”

500 seeds and 1000 peers would almost always be the faster download – remember all those peers are seeders too

UPnP for port forwarding? NO[/quote]

192 Feb 01, 2008 at 05:44 by Sheds

Hi, remember to choose ports higher than the well-known ports, otherwise, you could start sensing weird things happening during any kind of internet access.

For people using ktorrent under linux, my case (kubuntu 7.10), the encryption part is as follows: Settings > Configure Ktorrent.
After that, select general over on the main menu, and way down you’ll find encryption, select the first one and try the other option if everything goes well.

Happy torrenting.

193 Feb 01, 2008 at 05:47 by Sheds

[quote comment="255279"]hey
after patching those stop
my downloads stopped!
n i no longer can connect to any seeder n peers!
what should i do??
the port is changed now but to no avail

i am behind a new[but an older version ] router
Internet’s working fine but i cant BT any more wtf[/quote]

Sounds like either some firewall or router is blocking your port, that would be my first guess.

194 Feb 10, 2008 at 11:17 by BugBoy

[quote comment="55806"]…
Computers will never take the place of books. You can’t stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf.[/quote]

True. But you could use the CPU case…

195 Feb 15, 2008 at 08:01 by medical identity theft

Cupid placenta.certify sawing piously:- Tons of interesdting stuff!!!

196 Feb 22, 2008 at 15:15 by Blasphemer Bisaya

About a year and a half after this article was written, I still couldn’t believe the amount of naivety some users here are showing regarding lvllord.de’s tcpip.sys patch. If you don’t trust the patch then simply don’t use it. I trust the patch, having worked with computers for more than 24 years, I should know enough to know about viruses, worms, trojans, false positives and heuristics scanning.

The patch is specifically for Windows XP last SP2’s version (build 5.1.2600.2892) of tcpip.sys. The patcher may or may not recognize your tcpip.sys if it is versioned older than the one specified above. Therefore, it wouldn’t work (yet) on any edition of Windows Vista.

Virustotal.com is an intelligence guide. If you don’t have enough intelligence, it will not guide you correctly. And it tells you which antivirus vendors are stupid panic mongers for something which is a year-and-a-half old already. It also tells you which antivirus software does not rely too much on heuristics and relies only on FACTS (and factual virus signatures) to determine the validity of a file.

197 Feb 26, 2008 at 13:05 by Stev0

Great tips, yea my avg pick up on the patch being virus, spyware, but i allowed it and all is fine a matter of fact, i was amazed that my D-speed on bittorrent jumped from 40 -130 kb/s and the uplaod well i capped the option to 10 but it sent the dowload speed back down to 40kb/s, and im on an 8 mb line bt wireless homehub, so it,s gave me help the tip to have helped more than anyone else ever has, so my advise follow these post they work so does the patch,very sweet

198 Feb 26, 2008 at 13:11 by Stev0

oh i forgot to back what you say this is better than a bookshelf you can,t find this info and the patch in a book on the top shelve a matter of FACT IT,S NOT A VIRUS it up-ed my connection and trust me it non hackable via to the user or the supplier,to uninstall the patch is just to uninstall bittorrent and reinstall if not happy always remember i found this info searching the internet not books

199 Feb 26, 2008 at 13:19 by Stev0

more info im downloading 6 half gig so it big and bittorrent needs to be reliable with the tips and help at the top i only have to wait 1 day thats right one day,not the best but better than nothing at all thanks to the patch thank you very much lvllord

200 Feb 26, 2008 at 13:33 by Stev0

I herby stev0 verify the patch is not spyware,virus,trojan it,s like a new pair of shoe,s makes me feel good,to use them and try them,i installed to spare computer one that test these file before i tranfer to my computer the one i use and it fine no problems no bugs ect just extract and install to your torrent exe folder and it will give you options you can edit the option ect,the same as a command prompt

201 Feb 26, 2008 at 13:44 by Stev0

and quess what i have no knowledge of these torrent fixes i have no intellegence just what i read above now i am well sponged im gonna soak in some more info as from today lol great

202 Feb 26, 2008 at 13:58 by BT.DNA

Hi there i got a little problem here i just wondered if you guys had any knowledge of bittorrent DNA application i think it,s designed to boost speeds on bittorrent, am i wrong and if so what do you know, Here is a link incase your not sure of it http://www.bittorrent.com/dna/

203 Mar 02, 2008 at 08:02 by me

Hey,
sorry but after i did everything it still didnt work, my download speed only reached up to 2.6kB/s – maybe i did something wrong? was i suppose to restart my computer straight after downloading the patch? or do you think my internet connection is too slow? it’s normally 44Kbps

204 Mar 02, 2008 at 18:26 by tomex81

Thanks for excellent tips-my Dl speed increased trifold.

205 Mar 03, 2008 at 13:45 by stev0 reply

Hi there to me,yea when your install the patch to the torrent app folder where u saved it to

open the patch,ingnore warning if any
a black cmd box will open,dont worry it,s the patch

then you will be prompted to keep the settings or change

it allowes u to input bettween 0-100 press C for change then input your numbers your choice between 0-100 ,

i would put 65, hit return

then hit Y for yes

then it will
countdown from 15-0 and your done

exit the torrent app then restart

make sure your torrent app is set to default before u begin with no downloads present

206 Mar 03, 2008 at 13:50 by thats better

well that worked seen all changes happen afterward wow it works great stuff all great guide line now i know

207 Mar 07, 2008 at 03:37 by YOUR MUM

YOU GUYS ARE FUCKING NUTS !! — BLODDY HELL DUDES !! WHOEVER SAYS THAT IT IS POSSIBLE TO INCREASE YOU SPEED WITH PATCHES IS A FUCKING RETARD , AS IT IS NOT POSSIBLE !

208 Mar 09, 2008 at 11:06 by T

hey, brilliant article…my download speed went from 14, 15 right up to 110kB/s! nevertheless though i never installed the patch. not because of the whole virus thing, im all too aware of how ‘viruses’ aren’t always that but simply because i don’t want to be messing with certain folders on my computer. esecially when the only way to reverse it is to run the same patch again, I don’t fancy that at all. Thanks alot anyway!

209 Mar 12, 2008 at 07:17 by MSD

guys, after doing everything this article say, I started to have a problem, in a CMD, if I type “ping http://www.google.com -t” only a 40% of the request do not fail. And It happens to me only in windows (because in my ubuntu 7.10 %100 of the request succeded). And also started to feel that the problem starts when I run azeurus.
I has been 2 weeks since I did this, and I know that my router is not the problem (because I reset it and configured it again after this). Could you please help me or at least give a try??

thanks!!!

210 Mar 12, 2008 at 15:23 by Dnice808

In reference to what “Your Mum” stated on March 7, 2008…

This is a forum for comments that should be positive and intelligent. Unfortunately, your comment held neither information. Truth be told, right when XP came out there was the issue that the OS limited out and incoming transfers to 10 connnections. Don’t believe it? Google it. lvllord.de’s tcpip.sys patch has been out for AT LEAST 5-6 years – and it rocks. Depending on your i-net connection, boosting it up to 50 connections could be the best thing you can do for BT. For N00Bz: Understand that this will also increase your virus propagation (making your system slow when you are infected with virus’ or spyware), which is the reason XP limited this in the first place, so read a lot before you go about thinking you are K00l. That you guys want to use a free AV client that blocks changing tcpip.sys, well, thats your business.

211 Mar 13, 2008 at 14:16 by Anon

Yes this is a virus. But it just depends on the definition of virus. If you consider a virus to be a program that alters a particular file, then this is one. But if you consider it to be a harmful program, then sorry to disappoint, this isn’t a virus.

212 Mar 15, 2008 at 12:32 by pebis

[quote comment="227734"]I read the whole thing. I will try and see what happens. Thank you to all those of you who know about the subject and want to positively help–especially those who have a benign spirit.[/quote]
bund mra

213 Mar 15, 2008 at 12:34 by pebis

[quote comment="286006"][quote comment="55806"]…
Computers will never take the place of books. You can’t stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf.[/quote]

True. But you could use the CPU case…[/quote]

Andar Le LE

214 Mar 16, 2008 at 01:45 by ur dad

muther fukers this will make ait l slow
duh!!!!!!!!! u gay mudr fukr

215 Mar 18, 2008 at 12:09 by Anonymous

do i need to go to your home and do the settings for you, you do have to change your setting still and thats after patching , all utility need to be checked at least three times a day they always differ in speed and rates, not all ppl are on landlines and not all ppl are on wireless, most times bandwith in some countrys are different from other always give the other end a look check there settings remember seed and peers you whant lots not little

216 Mar 18, 2008 at 12:15 by from above

right click on you torrent in your torrent app go to propertys there is settings there that can help plus your app settings remember every couple of hours update your trackers and do not reset bandwith hope this has helped

217 Mar 18, 2008 at 12:29 by from above again

the thing is i have no intelligence i just follow instructions for weeks mabey months ,,,untill i figure out those answers,and when you see the changes you will see the changes, if you are having problems then you know less than i do and i ,,,well i know only a little but have learned a lot from the above and others the one,s with reall intelligence, the thing about reading is to understand what you see becouse you can,t hear what those sentences are saying to you

218 Mar 20, 2008 at 18:31 by respons to your MUM

[YOU GUYS ARE FUCKING NUTS !! — BLODDY HELL DUDES !! WHOEVER SAYS THAT IT IS POSSIBLE TO INCREASE YOU SPEED WITH PATCHES IS A FUCKING RETARD , AS IT IS NOT POSSIBLE !]

Explain to us this is not possible have tryed yet explaine and we,ll let you know where your wrong

219 Mar 20, 2008 at 18:33 by your MUM

As many above prove this fact i am proof that you haven,t even tryed or you simply have no intell on these subjects SPAM||||

220 Mar 22, 2008 at 03:26 by NaginiFay

Wow, thanks so much. I used the patch and set it to twenty connections and almost tripled my max up and download speeds. I’m running close to 100 up now!

221 Mar 22, 2008 at 10:19 by Kedd

Hi to Moderator n any user,

Plz somebody help me to undo that patch… somehow my system reacts crap once i did that… I want everything back on normal conditions… plz advise.. thanks

222 Mar 26, 2008 at 06:39 by JOE

what speeds do i need more of upload or download what is the fastest in AUSSIE? i want to play online gameing but i do not know any good speeds and be able to download fast and view sites fast that kinda thing WTF is 1200/256 wha is 256kbps and what is 1200? i am so lost

223 Mar 26, 2008 at 23:28 by bitlord

Does these settings work with bitlord?? somewone said it doesn’t but I use Bitlord and it looks like my dl speed has increased. Should I switch to an other program??

224 Mar 28, 2008 at 13:25 by Ezel

Hey, I’ve done all of te above and all the optimum choices that everyone has said and my connection is only 2.5k/bps on a 256mb modem. Do you know HOW that happens?

225 Apr 06, 2008 at 11:35 by blthong

Tried all the tips here with Utorrent and nothing worked. Downloaded a modded version of bitcomet and dl speeds improved from 10-20kbs to 60kbs. No idea what happeded. Can some of you techies please check this out and see if it works. http://www.hafreze.com/tag/modded-bitcomet/

226 Apr 06, 2008 at 11:53 by blthong

Sorry I meant 10-20 kB/s to 60kB/s

227 Apr 10, 2008 at 21:39 by Peter

The patch has a virus. I was rather stupid to download it without reading all of the comments!!

228 Apr 11, 2008 at 22:24 by xxx

FUCK THIS!

229 Apr 29, 2008 at 12:02 by werome

I HAVE USED THIS PATCH ON 4 PC’S AND SPEEDS HAVE DOUBLED EACH TIME.
I HAVE RUN IT THROUGH A.V.G, SPYBOT AND AD-ADWARE. !!THIS IS NOT A VIRUS!! IT’S FANTASTIC. CHEERS GUYS.

230 May 07, 2008 at 03:22 by Dave

This post was great… I did everything in recommeneded except the encryption and disable firewall. I went from 4 files downloading with about 2 weeks left to download to 30+ files and some at 140 kB/s. The patch worked well, seemed a little scary at first but glad I ran it. This was a great post. I highly recommend to all of those who are a bit wary, it worked for me with no problems.

231 May 07, 2008 at 10:35 by Anonymous

[quote comment="6435"]re: point #1 — it says “half-open” connections — this does not mean you can only have 10 connections at a time: it means you can only have ten connection _attempts in progress_ at any one time. You can still have hundreds of peers connected, but the rate at which you may connect is slowed down. It does not cripple torrents, it merely slows down the spin up time, albeit marginally.[/quote]

[quote comment="6436"]why are you d/l a patch with a backdoor virus[/quote]

[quote comment="6441"]Great article. Little bit of a typo though.
If you still want to be able to browse properly, set your maximum download speed to:

95% of your maximum upload speed

so if your maximum download speed is 400 kB/s, the optimal download speed is 380kB/s

Should say 95% of your maximum download speed.[/quote]

[quote comment="6456"]Nice article ..except for this slight mistake “kb/s = kB/s divided by 8″ … It should have been :
“kb/s = kB/s multiplied by 8″ or
“kB/s = kb/s divided by 8″[/quote]

With so many factual errors I question the author’s integrity. How many times have I read the phrase – download this, will be flagged as a virus but it’s not really?

232 May 07, 2008 at 22:26 by Anonymous

Note: Some people report that their antivir reports the patch to be a Virus, This is not the case. Check out http://www.lvllord.de/ for more details on this

The patch allows you to set the maximum allowed connections to any number you want. Any number between 50 and 100 is ok (more is NOT always better).
————————————–
Utorrent lets you modify these settings, no fucking virus patch required

233 May 25, 2008 at 20:40 by Technische Goethe

Yay for this discussion. The articles at TorrentFreak sustain a level of intelligibility and entertainment that makes it much more pain free than other tech-savvy sites, and this places it closer to heaven than most discussions about torrents that can be found on the web.

For we noob/sheep/ignoramuseseses — who simply want to use our computer, and who are able to read and follow directions — trying to learn enough about setting the “connection speed” on —oh, say utorrent/bittorrent—is like trying to learn algebra from a super-intelligent gerbil who’s just come off a one week tequila and ritalin bender at his coke-dealer’s house: it’s impressive, incomprehensible and makes me want to crush small animals.

Most befuddlement seem to revolve around this whole kb/kB/(sometimes writ Kb, with a capital “K,” for added, unnecessary confusion) issue. Never mind that even people who obviously understand such things easily confuse this issue, it’s easy to confuse! And however bad it is for the tech-savvy, it’s exponentially worse for those of us that don’t care what it’s called. We just want to know WHAT TO SET OUR BLOODY CONNECTION SPEED!

The creators of (U/Bit)torrent might as well just make up a speed designation. (I’m fond of designation “Larry.”) They seem to think that the way to avoid the whole bits and bytes confusion was was to drop the letter “b” altogether and limit themselves to just using a lower-cased letter “k” in their wildly misnamed “Speed Guide.”

This leaves the majority of users, folks like me, the vast un-enlightned masses, the decidedly tech-UN-savvy, fantasizing about creating a time machine, going back in time, finding the pinheaded basement dweller that thought that the distinction between bits and bytes was best signified by simply changing the case of the letter “B,” sucking his brains out his left ear and spooning the resultant goo onto (U/Bit)torrent-flavored sherbet and serving it to starving cannibal children, while we just sort of blindly guess at a connection speed near the number produced by the speed test site we were sent to.

I’ve personally taken to leaving it up to the spider in the corner of my office. Whatever number I see in his web, that’s the speed I set my connection as. This morning it seemed to be 512kLarries, but just now, as I was writing this, a fly entered the picture and . . . oh drat. I have to change it to a mere 58kLarries . . . dial up speed.

Anyway, excellent article. Keep up the good writing, the good work, and the good fight. And if anyone gets there before me, save me some sherbet.

T. Goethe

234 May 29, 2008 at 19:49 by Jaya Senan

this is one of the most important. do not miss this step!!

235 May 29, 2008 at 23:37 by shishir

hey guys can you please tell when how do I install thisfrom scratch as my download speed has decreased. please mail me at shishirdnath@gmail.com

236 May 30, 2008 at 10:22 by Tahmid

My Higest Download Speed Has Been 340kb/s .
Hah Im Loving It.

Average Is Around The 300 Mark . :)

237 May 31, 2008 at 20:33 by MAK

I did this on Windows Vista Home Premium and noticed zero difference. using BitTorrent client and downloading a 6Gb. file with Cable Internet @ 19000kb/s DL – 188Kb/s UL according to http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/. anyone have any suggestions to make this download faster? I can download a 1Gb. Movie on iTunes in 20 minutes or less. Why does it take 72 hours on BitTorrent?

238 Jun 01, 2008 at 03:29 by gagan

thanks i will try
and please alway give the latest update about which u like to give

good by

239 Jun 01, 2008 at 04:04 by TJ

THNX MAN,I SET MY UPLOAD DWNLOAD SPEED AS 80% AND 95% AND NW IT WRKS GRT

240 Jun 09, 2008 at 07:57 by Reno

Cracks for games show up as keyloggers sometimes. I doubt it’s a serious threat.

241 Jun 15, 2008 at 11:28 by afghanboi1

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242 Jun 20, 2008 at 14:38 by geigo

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243 Jun 23, 2008 at 12:01 by tibbs

I tried these settings and it didn’t work as well, I get better speeds by setting upload speed much lower (about 25% and number of peers and connections loads higher

244 Jun 23, 2008 at 12:01 by tibbs

I tried these settings and it didn’t work as well, I get better speeds by setting upload speed much lower (about 25% and number of peers and connections loads higher.

humnyar.co.uk

245 Jun 25, 2008 at 20:14 by oliret

would it be best 2 have 10 peers and 10 seeds, or 20 peers and 20 seeds

246 Jul 06, 2008 at 18:09 by Ankan

What is a peer then!! ??

247 Jul 11, 2008 at 00:14 by Anonymous

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248 Jul 15, 2008 at 13:29 by lastone

These tips are awesome for newbie like me

249 Jul 16, 2008 at 08:57 by Anonymous

Thanks for your work and this nice article.
I tried your settings and think they are ok, though I prefer the µtorrent standart ones, they simply are the fastest.
The patch improved the overall speed considerably, I think about 1/3 or more at times…that’s a very good tip: But 80 half-open are a bit too much, at least with only 512kb/s upload.

250 Jul 23, 2008 at 23:46 by iFrag

Scan Statistics
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Scan started: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 23:44:48
Scan duration: 0 days, 00 hours, 00 minutes, 06 seconds
Completion status: Successful

Total files scanned: 8
Total files skipped: 0
Identified viruses: 0
Scan speed: 1.33 files/sec

___________________________________________________________

File is 100% safe, scanned with bullguard

251 Jul 25, 2008 at 08:12 by Mehraz

my up speed is 30KB but my dload speed is only 4 KB???why????plz help..

252 Jul 29, 2008 at 07:27 by Anonymous

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253 Jul 31, 2008 at 01:59 by Anonymous

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254 Aug 08, 2008 at 15:06 by Hitman47

these tips are very usefull :P

255 Dec 22, 2008 at 06:33 by aku

do you have the speeding download tips for the vista?

256 Dec 23, 2008 at 10:48 by fly games

wtf are you talking about?

257 Dec 25, 2008 at 08:58 by TimeLord

I downloaded the patch and AVG said it was a backdoor virus. should I still run it? or can I still get all the rest of the tweaks without using it?

258 Dec 25, 2008 at 09:01 by TimeLord

nvm

259 Dec 31, 2008 at 07:47 by Chip

Listen People, The tweaks that ernesto has suggested are a great started guide though I don't agree with everything. Apply the patch and use the optimizer he suggests. As far as these download test speeds online they are totally unreliable. I have my download speed set to unlimited and upload to 150. I can download 8 or 10 torrents at a time at over 2MB/s with a normal cable internet connection

260 Jan 23, 2009 at 05:50 by Jo77

you are wrong, it actually works exaclty the opposite of the "pipeline" idea. (for the max. upload) ***********If you set the max upload to very small (like 5.0) then your downloads will become very slow.
i thought the same thing as you until i read this forum, (becuz my downloads were going slow <like 16kb/s> so i googled the problem and i came to this forum and it explained everything)
http://forum.bittorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=296

don't believe me.. then check it out at this site.
http://forum.bittorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=296

just trying to help out.

261 Feb 01, 2009 at 00:29 by ar?tma

thanx for this topic

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264 Feb 01, 2009 at 01:10 by kral

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265 Feb 01, 2009 at 04:07 by umut

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266 Feb 01, 2009 at 06:06 by erikmedya

dis is a repeat blog of one posted ages ago…

267 Feb 01, 2009 at 09:27 by Luigi

What is the difference between uTorrent and BitTorrent? I've got both programs and they're identical from what i can see. btw thanks 4 this. I now don't have to wait 2 hours for a file that's 100mb big

268 Feb 01, 2009 at 10:31 by teknoloji

I downloaded the patch and AVG said it was a backdoor virus. should I still run it? or can I still get all the rest of the tweaks without using it?

269 Feb 01, 2009 at 10:33 by alanya otelleri

these tips are very usefull :P

270 Feb 01, 2009 at 10:58 by google

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271 Feb 01, 2009 at 11:15 by honest

ok. thank's

272 Feb 01, 2009 at 11:20 by aradayazar?m

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273 Feb 01, 2009 at 12:36 by Özge Özberk

Good Job.. The Patch is not a virus? Who posted that 1? lol

274 Feb 02, 2009 at 23:44 by porno izle

did u check it for antivirus ?

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