Speed up Bitcomet and uTorrent

Written by Ernesto on December 20, 2005 

In a previous post we advised to raise the maximum amount of half-open tcp connections to speed up your torrents. On itself this is a great trick, however I recently discovered that 90% off all people use the default settings on their client, and that’s a problem.

Both Bitcomet and uTorrent (and probably other clients) limit half-open tcp connections by default. This means even if you hack the max half-open tcp connections in windows xp, your speed will still be limited. So this is what you need to do:

First of all, read this post that gives you some tips and tricks how to speed up your torrents and test your download and upload speed.

1. Hack the max half-open TCP connections

Update: this tweak is NOT recommended if you use uTorrent >1.7, it may lead to unstable behavior.

If you’re on XP sp2, your TCP connections are limited to a maximum of 10. This seriously hurts your downloading speed because it wont let you connect to a high amount of ip numbers. It is supposed to slow down viruses because their spreading strategy is to connect to a high amount of ip numbers, but it also cripples your torrent downloads.
A nice way to fix this is to download this patch, it 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).

2. Configure your torrent client to allow 50-100 max half-open TCP connections

uTorrent: Options > Preferences > Advanced options > net.max_halfopen

tcputorrent

Bitcomet: Options > Preferences > Connection > max half-open TCP

tcpbitcomet

Now you’re ready to go…

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A third point of interest is that some “windows updates” revert your tweaked tcp connections back to 10. So it’s wise to check this every now and then. You can check this by going to (in windows xp) Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Event Viewer > System… Look for event 4226 (sort by event).

event

If there are a lot of daily occurrences it’s likely that the max amount of half-open tcp connections was set back to 10. Or you’re infected with some nasty spyware…

If you’re done, you might want to try the torrent settings optimizer to check if all setting are correct

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404 Responses

1 Dec 22, 2005 at 07:39 by r00ted

increasing the half-open connections won’t necessarily speed up your torrents…..remember, in the world of bittorrent, more Connections does NOT equal faster speeds. If a peer has something you need, they will connect to you, and such.

And of course, use protection…lol

2 Jan 04, 2006 at 04:09 by pasteler0

after installing the patch, i’m having problems using msn and other internet stuff when bitcomet is on. How do I turn this off?

3 Jan 04, 2006 at 08:02 by Ernesto

Just run it again and change back to 10.

4 Jan 09, 2006 at 02:32 by Jay

hey i changed the max TCP connections to 80 and its made a massive differance thanks!

5 Jan 10, 2006 at 04:45 by Jae

Whoa, I did this and it quadrupled my download speeds. Thanks alot.

6 Jan 10, 2006 at 05:05 by Smart

this message is for ROOT..
you stupid fucking moron numnet..
dumshit don’t talk when u don’t understand shit…..
if you don’t connect to other user then how you know what they got..you dumpshit

7 Jan 13, 2006 at 14:00 by Max

[insert a lot of trashtalk here]

8 Jan 16, 2006 at 20:00 by the dude

gees ppl. whats with all the threats and bs language? does your mother know you talk like that? i guess that you guys are such smartasses that you do talk the same way.. PPL .. this whole thread got redundant when all this cursing.. its a commentfield for an applet tweak.. GET A FUCKING LIFE KIDS!!! grow up already and stop pestering the ppl that actually use the web for working. and not just to wank off.. im out.. great tip btw. havent been able to figure out what happend with my torrentz after sp2.. thanx peeps for pointing out the obvious

9 Jan 16, 2006 at 23:55 by Jimmy

When I try to install the patch, this is what it says… http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v194/ShaolinMilk/problem.jpg Someone mind helping me? Thank You.

10 Jan 17, 2006 at 07:42 by Miro

Jimmy: You need admin rights to install the patch.

11 Jan 17, 2006 at 23:23 by Jimmy

Um yes. I am the admin of the computer.

12 Jan 18, 2006 at 13:21 by mohamed

thanks alt

i’ll try that now

13 Jan 20, 2006 at 07:19 by FruitJuiceyRed

wow you can actually see the down speed triple-quadruple as these two steps are done!

14 Jan 20, 2006 at 08:17 by Jimmy

Whenever i try to do this, this error pops up. Can someone help me, please?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v194/ShaolinMilk/problem.jpg

15 Jan 20, 2006 at 17:40 by Zip

I tried the patch and increased the uTorrent to 80. So far, no difference.

16 Jan 21, 2006 at 15:03 by Lee

Thanks so much, this patch and guide made a huge difference. Really appreciate it. Lee

17 Jan 22, 2006 at 21:13 by Reg

Before I took these steps I could only get around 30kbs download tops. Afterwards I have gotten a max of 305kbs. It all depends on the nuber of seeds and peers so i choose my torents wisely.

18 Jan 23, 2006 at 01:03 by Sebastyan

I have a connection 60 Kb and i download with 7kb(torent) I have make all tutorials :((

19 Jan 23, 2006 at 05:01 by mike

how is this done in azureus?

20 Jan 26, 2006 at 12:19 by TopDog

Doesn’t seem to be doing much for me as is.

21 Jan 27, 2006 at 12:57 by foff

Mine’s automatically 500 is that good or bad?

22 Jan 29, 2006 at 23:49 by chantel

Hey, i tried to download this, and all of a sudden, my anti-virus comes up and says that i should scan my computer, and that there is a bug. someone help me please

23 Jan 30, 2006 at 07:10 by hyper

foff 500kb/s is demm good.
I tried the steps but there is no
difference…..i changed it to 80 by the patch and then when i went to bitcomet the max half-open TCP connection was still at 10…….so i increased it to 80 but no difference.
Can someone plz help…thanx

24 Feb 01, 2006 at 00:20 by Zayce

Hyper, I think Foff meant his TCP/IP

25 Feb 01, 2006 at 23:47 by wireracer

I have installed BitComet several times and succeeded in finding torrents, however I can’t get any of them to connect. I created exceptions in the firewall on my computer and still no luck. Any suggestions?

26 Feb 02, 2006 at 00:39 by jose cuervo

does the patch work for win 98 SE? if not waht can i do ?

thanx a lot

27 Feb 02, 2006 at 03:15 by Sabbath

i donwloaded this patch, i have 54.0 mbp speed and i also use bit comet,i’ve changed my tcp connection to like 60 or somthing, and i’m only getting speed like 9 or 10 on average somtimes i get lucky and get 40 or 50 for minimal time. With the speed of my computer i should be getting much faster download speed?… any new advice

28 Feb 02, 2006 at 03:17 by Sabbath

why is my bittorrent not opening, thats the best site of all of them, did it shut down?

29 Feb 02, 2006 at 14:53 by BungleX

1. Dont worry about antivirus warnings, the’re expected.
2. You dont need the patch for 98 SE.
3. Patching doesnt garantee faster downloads, u still need lots of sources and upload aswell..
wireracer – if u have a nat router/modem u have to forward your ports.

30 Feb 03, 2006 at 03:58 by Sabbath

I’ve a DL-524 router, and even went to the d-link site through admin and changed up in application with port trigger, sent ports and nothin happened , this is getting ridicoulous…

31 Feb 04, 2006 at 17:32 by inhale.exhale

this is realy great!! first i only downloaded at 22kB/s and after the patch, i download at +/- 240 kB. So it’s really it

32 Feb 05, 2006 at 01:28 by DmnCash

I’ve tried this and still no improvement. I have XP2 SP2 and my net is ADLS 2MB. This means that my download is 2MB and my upload is 370-390kb/s (don’t know exact number). Can you please tell me what might the problem be ?

33 Feb 05, 2006 at 01:30 by DmnCash

By the way my country is Romania. It is in situated in Est Europe. Is the location a problem ?

34 Feb 05, 2006 at 01:56 by Ernesto

East Europe is just great for torrenting :) that’s not the problem. Don’t expect miracles though. Try a popular torrent with a good seed peer ratio, and check out this post http://torrentfreak.com/speed-up-your-torrents-ii/

hope that helps

35 Feb 05, 2006 at 20:05 by cra

will this make a difference if im already dwnloading at around 500kbp/s anyway??

36 Feb 06, 2006 at 06:58 by Jelle

When using BitComet, my browsing stops after a while, despite reducing down/up load speeds! I am part of a network, where sometimes download speeds of over 200 are reality. Any suggestions?

37 Feb 06, 2006 at 07:27 by Den

hi
i installed the patch and i change the max-half openTCP and still nothing change…i need help..any suggestion..i am using a linksys BEFSR41 router btw.

38 Feb 06, 2006 at 08:07 by f**

swt
not only increase the max-half open TCP can increase..u also need to close the firewall and other stuff

39 Feb 06, 2006 at 08:58 by icemanfiveoh

dude,

worked awesome! thanks!

40 Feb 06, 2006 at 10:40 by Lambros

Hey,

I got a 54mbps internet, but only get a download speed below 20kbps. Any Ideas??

41 Feb 06, 2006 at 11:49 by Sabbath

i did a broadband test i have a 569 kb upload speed, my bit comet only downloads at 10 to 20.. i need help please…!

42 Feb 06, 2006 at 16:32 by OpenSource

After installing this “patch” I noticed that my computer is trying to connect to random IP’s even if I have no programs running. There not the IP’s for windows time update and such. They are trying to connect to private IP’s… this patch is a virus I think?

43 Feb 06, 2006 at 17:16 by Chen

good!

44 Feb 06, 2006 at 19:58 by Ernesto

@ OpenSource

This patch just tweaks the tcpip.sys file and is absolutely NOT a virus

45 Feb 06, 2006 at 22:17 by Jake

How do i change use the patch? I keep getting winrar opening up my directory!!! i have no idea what to do!

46 Feb 06, 2006 at 23:11 by Ernesto

the patch is rarred. use winrar to extract it somewhere, then open the extracted folder and run the patch

47 Feb 06, 2006 at 23:41 by Jake

i see no differences in my downloads

48 Feb 07, 2006 at 00:01 by Mark

can someone help? i did everything but i am not getting anyware

49 Feb 07, 2006 at 01:15 by Mark

anyone?

50 Feb 07, 2006 at 01:22 by mkay

i installed the patch, changed it to the max tcp stuff to 70. then i changed it on bitcomet to 80 like it said. i am still getting extremly low download rates!
50kb/s IF LUCKY!

51 Feb 07, 2006 at 01:25 by Ernesto

@mark

It depends on the torrent. Does it have a lot of seeds and peers?

52 Feb 07, 2006 at 22:38 by slafCO

Hi people, I instal the patch … there was some problems but I think not serious problems …. sommethink with Windows CD …. max tcp stuff to 80 .. and still 30 if I am LUCKY .. why ??

53 Feb 08, 2006 at 01:39 by Joe

AS soon as i put the patch in and REBOOTED, i got a WINDOWS UPDATE saying it found something that could let intruders in, and wants me to download it. I am guessing if i do it goes back to 10, right?. So what should i do?

54 Feb 08, 2006 at 01:49 by Joe

ALSO just check the EVENT LOG and i see ALOT of those you mentioned there, does this mean its back to 10?.

55 Feb 08, 2006 at 15:00 by Vlastik

I have 80 halfopen. Speed my net is 512/256 kb/s. And I upload 10 KB/s and download so 1 – 5 KB/s. And I am seeding always. With windows isnt problem. I have Service pack 1. So I dont know what´s this.

56 Feb 09, 2006 at 01:16 by Crayons

this patch is AWESOME!!! definitely recommend for others to download it!!! also if u want a free video or nano ipod go to the following site:
http://ipods.freepay.com/
THEY SHOWED THIS ON CNN AND MSNBC, SO IT REALLY DOES WORK!!! HAVE FUN WHEN U GET IT!!!

57 Feb 09, 2006 at 11:17 by Nagesh

autodeskAutocad ArchitecturalDesktop2005 after 40% from 3days,and not able to download,most of the Download stoped like same PLS guide me to sort this iessue

58 Feb 10, 2006 at 19:17 by john

every time i try to dwnld something it says cant read torrent discouraging.

59 Feb 12, 2006 at 02:48 by CraigL

This will not increase your download speeds, In SP2 microsoft (who everyone loves to complain about their security) tried to prevent the spread of viruses which connect to as many IP’s as possible. The 10 half-open connections means 10 at a time, as soon as 10 is reached it will move onto another 10. As root mentioned something similar earlier, the speed of torrent depends on the tracker and the peers connected to it. Why make XP any less safe?

60 Feb 13, 2006 at 14:39 by velchevi1969

Bit Comet Torrent

61 Feb 14, 2006 at 06:04 by daniel

sweet mother…it’s alive!!! thanks so much.

62 Feb 15, 2006 at 01:35 by patrickl

normally my download rate is cruisin at bout 110kb/s but when i change the max half open tcp connections my downld speed falls to bout 50kb/s can anyone help?

63 Feb 15, 2006 at 04:52 by Kuldeep

Hey, umm, how can u go back to the absolute default values after using the patch?

64 Feb 15, 2006 at 09:08 by Ernesto

you can go back by running the patch again and enter 10 (the default value)

65 Feb 15, 2006 at 17:26 by dellis

Hey i was wondering how do you get the setting to stay?, it seems it reverts back all the time, do i need to keep doing it until it doesnt revert anymore?.

66 Feb 15, 2006 at 18:03 by Ernesto

-dellis

some windows updates changing it back to 10, but that should not happen too often. Other that that, i have no clue.

How do you know the setting is reverted by the way?

67 Feb 15, 2006 at 19:58 by emperorcrp

hey guys. I am a newbie to the business, so someone please help me out. I am using Bitlord 1.01 dwn speed is max 30 kbps or sometimes even 2 kbps. I have hacked my tcp limitations but still no use.please help me out. My email add is emperorcrp@yahoo.co.in Please respond. Thnx.

68 Feb 18, 2006 at 16:42 by TD

u can tell the tcp connections has gone back to 10 by running the tool again. in the window, it says the limit for 1/2 open tcp connections.

69 Feb 18, 2006 at 19:37 by doh

I think the problem for many of you is where you are getting these torrents from. Probably poorly seeded and too many users on the tracker.

For those of you on DS3 speeds (54mbit), are you sure you actually have a DS3 or are you just reading some sticker on your 802.11g wireless card? ;)

If you really do have that fast of an INTERNET connection, then maybe your hub/switch/router/NIC is only set to 10mbit and not 100mbit.

LASTLY… make sure you check this simple step:

Decrease your UPLOADING rate to about 80-85% of your max rate.

70 Feb 19, 2006 at 17:24 by zerocool

hay, ive got the same problem as WIRERACER- ive got bitcomit and ive found torrents to download. they apear in the download screen but never begin-they just sit their an dont connect?! please help?

71 Feb 22, 2006 at 09:51 by Jasvanth

all those people complaining about he patch not working its most probably cause you dont have much peers. try getting a POPULAR torrent and it will work people.

72 Feb 24, 2006 at 06:07 by tomy

i get

Intelligent TCPIP.SYS patcher / EventID 4226 patch Version 2.23d
(c) 2004-05 LvlLord (www.LvlLord.de) use parameter /? for more options

This program is in development. Visit http://www.LvlLord.de for a new version
——————————————————————————–

– Windows mode
– Recognised Windows-directory: C:\WINDOWS

– ‘Windows XP SP1 or lower’ TCPIP.SYS detected …
Your system has no limitation. No patching needed …

– Build of TCPIP.SYS : 5.1.2600.1106 (I386)

Patch aborted …
Press any key to exit …

is this normal… cuz no difference on my bit comet thing…

73 Feb 25, 2006 at 01:02 by bigkajamma

this is a bowl of shit! it slowed my torrents down!

74 Feb 25, 2006 at 02:12 by tomy

Your system has no limitation. No patching needed …

is this normal to happen… cuz i dont like the sound of this…and my torrents are lower than ever

75 Feb 25, 2006 at 23:04 by Hopeless

I dont think my download rate could get any worse. (5-11kbps) Now at 1kbps after downloading the patch. Whats going on?

76 Feb 28, 2006 at 20:48 by yoco

hy! I opened the Event Viewer and I have 28 Warning’s 4226. What should I do??
Thanx!

77 Mar 02, 2006 at 08:22 by Jeffro

OMG, 100 on a lowseeded torrent, my max halfopen tcp/ip connections is 512, that what the script told me! :D

78 Mar 02, 2006 at 08:51 by amasaro

ok, Im using bitcomet, but when i download something i never get higher than 32 kbs (i even rarely get 30). My internet conection speed is 2.4 mbps.
I heard that in these cases u have to do that forwarding thingy…. but im NOT behind a router. my firewals are off to, and i did this “tcp ip half” stuf, stil 30-29, i want to have at leas 50.(;)). Can anyone tel me what to do to conect ports…. PLLZZZZZZ

79 Mar 02, 2006 at 08:57 by amasaro

VERY SORRY again, fogot one more thing….

Lets say the file has 700 peers, bitcomet is teling me this

conected peers: 52(max posible 735)

so the problem is that i cant conect to these peers

thats now… really
THx

80 Mar 02, 2006 at 18:31 by Sodit

CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!

81 Mar 04, 2006 at 04:38 by who

there are some right idiots here, i tried this, after wondering why my torrents had been cruising at an amazing 2kb/sec for weeks, and as soon as i rebooted, low and behold sexy speeds of 180kb/sec. amazing. thank you.

82 Mar 04, 2006 at 19:23 by Wavey

I’ve done it and rebooted and there’s bugger all difference. Seems to work wonders for some people yet does nothing for others.

83 Mar 08, 2006 at 13:31 by iceman

Ru kidding me speed up bitcomet it such piece of crap it dloads junk like hell and u sayin speed it up .I think u should have given to us speedup utorrent and azureus because only these two r in the same league.I know people sayin utorrent overtaking azureus but i think its a long way for them to go.

84 Mar 11, 2006 at 08:29 by CaptJ

Yeah….my d/l can be up to 16Mbs (got near it once), and i never get close, so i don’t think this’ll help lol

85 Mar 17, 2006 at 23:33 by jesse

i tried the patch but, then my computer said
“Files that are required for windows to run properly have been replaced by unrecognized versions. To maintain system stability windows must restore the original versions of these files.
Insert your windows XP professional service pack 2 cd now.

Rety More information cancel”

someone e-mail me please!!!!!!!!!!!

86 Mar 17, 2006 at 23:34 by jesse

my e-maiol:
fire_electricity@msn.com

87 Mar 18, 2006 at 03:21 by jesse

some ine e-mail me @
fire_electricity@msn.com
to fix my problem, posted above- jesse

88 Mar 19, 2006 at 15:04 by Bladie

Lol, I ran this patch (Which hasn’t helped a single kB/s ffs), my brothers laptop that is in the same lan beeped and restarted o.o Such virus plx? xd

89 Mar 21, 2006 at 20:13 by kristaps

my upload speed in bit comet is 60 kb/s but download speed is 15 kb/s why my upload speed is bigger? what should i do?

90 Mar 21, 2006 at 22:32 by Ernesto

Hi, please post your speed related problems here..

http://www.btlist.com/categories.php

thanks

91 Mar 25, 2006 at 10:20 by Anime King

Hey people i have done wat the forum says but it will only work for fast connections like CABLE, ADSL2 and faster. It will not work for ADSL 1.5 and slower because you speeds are limited while faster connections have a more bandwidth listen up to make it faster go to http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php and download the patches from the site once that is done use all the patches that apply to your system winxp, win2000 etc then download a tool called advanced system optimizer and tweak everything in the tool then use the tcp/ip patch from
http://www.lvllord.de/ use it and patch the connection to the max possible (Edit torrentfreak DONT DO THIS, it will slow your torrents down, see the instructions in the post) but do it after installing all windows updates because somes updates restores the connection back to the orginal file. Make sure you have a decent firewall and antivirus because once the changes are made torrent files will go off. have the protection

92 Mar 25, 2006 at 12:06 by frankdee

would like to try

93 Mar 25, 2006 at 14:46 by Ernesto

Anime King, the max possible is NOT good, especially on slower connections.

And I already mention the lvlord patch in the post.

also check
http://torrentfreak.com/speed-up-your-torrents-ii/
http://torrentfreak.com/speed-up-your-torrents/

94 Mar 26, 2006 at 04:02 by bluejay

once u’ve launched the pach, it’ll do its job and reboot the computer. Xp will then ask u to insert xp cd (file changed, xp will not work properly, bla bla bla), click CANCEl and patch will continue its work…

By the way for those with SP1, u don’t need the patch, only for SP2 version of xp

95 Mar 26, 2006 at 04:07 by bluejay

By the way, to come back to Jimmy’s post (1/16/2006), i have the same problem, no admin rights. Looked around in forums, it’s because of xp PRO. As it’s configured for local networks (companies and so on…), Admin rights problem is very complicated…

Anyone knows how to solve this. I’ve managed to pop up the “SECURITY) tab in properties for every folder except for the patch. Can’t even extract it from “.rar” to my desktop. Says cannot move file, access denied…

send me a message on my email (bluejay_fr@hotmail.com) if u can help in any way

96 Mar 29, 2006 at 06:41 by Danny

Does anyone know if there is a patch available for Windows Server 2003?

97 Apr 01, 2006 at 00:17 by dp30

wicked, installed it, i’m using bitlord and straight away my speed increased…

98 Apr 01, 2006 at 02:21 by fishyboy

In response to:

By Lambros on 02.06.06 10:40 am
I got a 54mbps internet, but only get a download speed below 20kbps. Any Ideas??

Are you sure you aren’t confusing your wireless local network speed with your actual internet connection speed? You should run one of the speed tests to clear it up.

99 Apr 02, 2006 at 06:37 by Noob

hihi….
Can u teach me how to configure my azureus 2.4.0.2 to allow 80 max half open tcp connection..
And other tips to speed up my connection plz.
thx

100 Apr 08, 2006 at 11:17 by vanDivX

I am on WinXP SP2 and I was bucking 250KB downloading speed without this patch or changing the setting in option in uTorrent but I applied it anyway, don’t see any change but that may be because I could only go up to about 300KB with my connection and also I didn’t reboot windows or even restart uTorrent… anyway, how could I have been downloading at 250KBs when I did have that setting in windows set to 10 and in uTorrent to 8.

Of course speeds vary, I don’t always get 250KB but mostly 50 to 100 KB, suppose depending how good your particular torrent is

vanDivX

101 Apr 08, 2006 at 15:38 by wassup

hey guys! i downloaded the tcp/ip.sys patch, but when i try to extract the patch, nothing happens! Basically it extracts a folder with the help file, a url, but no program itself! Any help

102 Apr 10, 2006 at 03:19 by fawlty

hey when i down load the patch nod32 goes off and says there is a win 32 virus in there and deletes the whole file anyway around this ??
thanks all

103 Apr 10, 2006 at 06:39 by Ernesto

disable NOD32 :)

104 Apr 13, 2006 at 20:30 by matteo

when i open the patch from the other site…its empty……what should i do

105 Apr 15, 2006 at 16:03 by Fidget

i have been battleing this problem for months…I ahve a 1.5 meg down 1 meg up connection…I do speed test all the time and never see anything underthat…I use sp1 and I am NOT behind a router. I do use webroots desktop firewall but have tried alot of dl’s with it disabled…I have 2 clients that i use (bitcomet and utorrent) and both of them are extremly slow….I use a private tracker with not alot of seeders, But everyone else on the tracker get desent enough speeds but mine NEVER go above 20kps…I have been through all the settings in bitcomet and everything but the advanced settings in utorrent(most advanced settings in utorrrent i dont even Know exactly what they do)..I dont know what to check from here..sp1 has no connection limatations,
Tracker is not a problem(atleast not for others), port forwarding is not an issue with no router, its not the firewall..Is ther any other explaination besides my isp capping my ports? By the way, i failed to mention when dealing with http downloads i blaze, the only slow speeds i see is with torrents and all other p2p i have tried. Can anyone point me in a direction, i am fresh out of ideas!?!

106 Apr 17, 2006 at 06:07 by Min

I cant find administerative tools in my control panel?

107 Apr 19, 2006 at 17:17 by Happy

Thanks guys, from average 45kb to 280kb.. woooo hooooo

108 Apr 20, 2006 at 02:23 by Game22

This rules!! man ive never had this fast dl speeds

109 Apr 20, 2006 at 02:26 by Game22

forgot to thank you thanx alot!!!

110 Apr 20, 2006 at 15:32 by tyler

hello people..i done the patch and it workd great..but it wont let me sign onto msn..i changed it back to 10 and it will wont let me sign in..can somebody help please..thanks

111 Apr 21, 2006 at 05:11 by Raoul Farnizi

This actully all worked out great. Much appreciated

112 Apr 22, 2006 at 21:56 by err

thanks a lot for this..
i was downloading with 200 and now im downloading with 320kB/s

113 Apr 24, 2006 at 11:51 by softice

thanks this is amazing my torrent went from total download time of 33hours to 6.5 hours

114 Apr 24, 2006 at 21:54 by undroth

where to i go to figure out how to forward my ports?

115 Apr 29, 2006 at 14:09 by coldfax

My TCP connection was already set at 500 when I installed bitcomet. I then decided to see what happens when set the connection to 99999. HAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I even pulled a dick move and only allow 1 upload slot, 1 upload task at [no limit]. So there won’t be stealing my bandwidth fuckers

116 May 01, 2006 at 06:13 by amir

looooooooooooove

117 May 04, 2006 at 21:22 by john

Someone help me out, my max number of half open TCP came at 500 when I downloaded the program of the bitcomet site. Is that good?

118 May 06, 2006 at 10:27 by Sarcasm

i dont kow if u been reading, but if u heard u’d know that anything from 30-100 TCP is good, so 500 is extremely good

119 May 07, 2006 at 11:37 by Ict Cramps

I downloaded that patch and set it to 100 then i set the advanced setting (net.max.halfopen) to 100 as well , my downloaded speed went from 0.5 (average) to 3.0 (average). Brilliant. Instead of waiting 1 hour to download it took me 20 minutes.

120 May 09, 2006 at 17:44 by TE

Works great. 10x a million times :thumbsup:

121 May 13, 2006 at 13:54 by Amin

Hi,

Thanks its great, i use your patch,
thanks alot

122 May 14, 2006 at 01:40 by Gemigene

It sure worked for me, I almost quadrupled the download speed on good torrents.

Thanks

123 May 15, 2006 at 06:36 by Captain Dark Marker

For anyone who is having problems with there connection

Step 1. Download the tcp/ip patch and set your port to the desired half tcp/ip ports u want open

Step 2. Download bit commet and set the open tcp/ip ports to the same number as u picked for your desired ports

Step 3. This one not many know about, if u change your port to 1720 which is the port used for vioce over ip or “Voip” u will get a higher download rate cuzz they can’t packet shade this port……. Im getting in between 200 to 300k so it must work

124 May 15, 2006 at 22:39 by Jonathan

I had the same problem as Jesse: Files that are required for Windows to run properly have been replaced with unrecognizable versions… I need help desperately, I don’t think I have my disk!
I’m afraid to restart my computer without knowing what could go wrong with the renamed windows files.

125 May 19, 2006 at 11:23 by joe

I get torrent downloads of 700 +. If you dont believe me a picture is worth a 1000 words.
LOOK:- http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/2681/utorrent2nn.jpg
You guys can’t see the forest for all the trees.
You are so far off at getting good speed it aint funny.
O well you can suffer in your jocks and work it out yourselves,,, hint To get super speed,,, it’s all in the XP registy and that goes for surfing also.

126 May 19, 2006 at 11:55 by joe

RE ABOVE POST:
Also this aint a one off and the above pic was just to show you the speed i can get. I do not download the crap in the pic,I don’t need that crap.I pay my way through life. It was a good site with a lot of seeders and just for show OK.I get slower speeds at different sites,but not too much slower,, it depends on how many peers & seeders there are but the real speed tweaks are in registry settings.I will release them one day when I have had enough of Torrents because soon as I do “they” (big brother) will put a stop to my tricks.

127 May 21, 2006 at 02:27 by dormo

Bull SH** joe!!! I have seen that same uTorrent picture that you have linked to on another site and it was made with Photoshop.It was made up for a Gotcha.

joe is having this forum on.There are no Reg Tweaks in XP to get that much speed……….
Speed like that just doesn’t exist worst luck.
NO JOKERS PLEASE-Just Helpers

128 May 24, 2006 at 15:44 by Tommix

This fucking patch is some kind of virus or trojan.. And all that crap can be dome by regedit…no need patchs..

129 May 24, 2006 at 15:50 by Tommix

And Joe – you’re stupid asshole… If i have 256Kbits/s internet connection speed – there no way to do a 700Kb and the f..picture shows nothing, cause maybe you speed is 4Mbits/s …

130 May 28, 2006 at 17:05 by Joe

Is that so Tommix & dormo well right this minute I am downloading Splinter Cell.Chaos.Reloaded at 800+ kB/s so suffer in your jocks kiddies.And your the bull artist dormo because that pic is as real as it gets.
Lokk if you got a good site with enough seeders you can get speed of 800 kB/s and up.It aint that hard to set up µTorrent to run flat out if you have the right registry hacks,,it aint rocket science.
All this crap about changing settings like Net Max Half open to *80 and crap like that is worthless.The max amount you would change Net Max half Open to and this is IF you had a SUPERFAST connection would be 30.Changing it to 80 is total Rubbish.You guys are just clutching at straws.

131 May 30, 2006 at 16:17 by horny boss

smart i a stupit handcape

132 Jun 06, 2006 at 06:45 by eeeeee

i dont see those options

133 Jun 10, 2006 at 00:37 by Kelso

Heya,
I’ve got uTorrent and a 512mb/ps connection and I’ve tried the half-open patch and changing the settings of uTorrent but I only get an average of 2.5kb/ps!
Can anyone pls help!!!

134 Jun 10, 2006 at 11:42 by kay

hey joe, i saw your screenshot and i just like to know how do u customise that windows skin?

135 Jun 11, 2006 at 07:02 by zeus

my upload rate is going at 12KB/s but download rate is between 5 to 10 KB/s .i have put maximum allowed connections to 75.but then also its slow.can anyone guide me

136 Jun 11, 2006 at 17:39 by hesd

Hello everyone! I would just like to know if there is any possiblity of resolving my NAT problem given that my ISP doesn’t allow as of present portforwarding [i'm on wi-fi].
How about IP bouncing? One of my friends says that could be of help. Anyone got any ideas? I would gladly appreciate them since my utorrent indicator has never gone green since time immemorial.

Thanks in advance.

137 Jun 12, 2006 at 01:45 by david

hello just tried the patch and it says do you really want to change your limit to 50 so i said yes the it said can these file be renamed until end of patching so i said yes then it said the following files could not be renamed – \1386\tcpip.sy_ can any one help thanks

138 Jun 12, 2006 at 01:47 by david

oh sorry missed this out then it said please rename these files manually the patcher will now abort thans

139 Jun 12, 2006 at 04:45 by Lakshmi Narayanan

it really works thanx

140 Jun 17, 2006 at 22:20 by pab

man this stuff is the best
this is defenetly my favorite forum website,
i did this and started to download and within 3 minutes, i could see the difference.
thx
i use to take days to download something.

141 Jun 20, 2006 at 01:57 by Asian

now i hate to seem noob but i need help. i hope me being from england dont stop this from working. well i ran the patch changed half tcp… to 80. thats the only change i made. noticing no difference, restarted my comp to see if any changes, none. had a torrent with 22 seeds and 764 peers. had a d/l rate of 10kB. help me out plz. btw i changed the listening port on connections tab to 1720 like the guy said. HELP PLEASE, will be much appreciated

142 Jun 20, 2006 at 15:54 by Smith

You can NOT change the max number of half-open connections in the registry.
This number is determined by the TCP/IP.sys file.This file was CHANGED in SP2,the patch changes it BACK (or to whatever number you like) This is also the reason some AV proggies flip out:
A program is trying to CHANGE a protected Windows file!!!!same reason Windows switches it back.You need to DISABLE file-protection in windoze.new windoze”updates” will most likely revert your changes to.
If you dont use the patch theres no use wasting time setting this number in your client. Its TCP/IP.sys that controls how many halfopen connections you can have,NO MATTER WHAT you tell a program.
A program can not make halfopen connections that arent there!!

143 Jun 20, 2006 at 15:59 by Smith

You guys do know that mBITS and mBytes are NOT the same ,right? 1byte=8bits

144 Jun 20, 2006 at 23:07 by Asian

please help me, i see that many of you have high rates and i dont want to miss out. :(

145 Jun 26, 2006 at 06:25 by Tom

Worked perfectly, got my speed from 15-20k to 60+k for 1 particular download. I didnt even need to change all the settings. No patch applied either. Thx a lot for this post

146 Jun 26, 2006 at 08:35 by Jamison

Before running the patch µTorrent would level out at 1.0 mb/s and stay there forever, after running the patch and fiddling with settings it’s freaky what this does to my system…Ran patch restarted loaded up µTorrent and proceeded to download, It jumped up to about 2.6 mb/s download, for about 3 seconds and then dropped back down to about 1 mb/s then just levels out and stays like that. I’ve done it EXACTLY the way described here, including running the patch, and the µTorrent specific settings. Looked throught the even viewer and found a few of theese things Here Around the time I booted the machine back up [ http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/3705/untitled7wg.png ]. I did cancel the windows file protection after running the TCP patch so, in short, If anyone could shed some light please do. Excellent guide by the way, just wish It would work for me.

147 Jun 29, 2006 at 17:55 by ME

This really kicks ass…I went from 20 kb/s to around a 100 kb/s

Thanx a lot dude

148 Jul 05, 2006 at 11:54 by bittman

i recently upgraded to vista beta and then realised that the patch wont work on this operating system any advice?

149 Jul 06, 2006 at 14:26 by vans

my download speed test result…..

Your connection is: 24 Kbps or 0.02 Mbps
You Downloaded at: 3 kB/s
You are running: 0 times faster than 56K and can Download 1 megabyte in 341.33 second(s)
Member Ident: CompID:554691—-
Test Time:: 2006/07/06 – 8:16am
Test Browser and OS info: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Test ID: B1RPYWG42 (if this is a screenshot go to testmy.net to see if this is fake)
Diagnosis ^info^: May need help : running at only 7.23 % of your hosts average.
This was tested from a 579 kB file and took 201.532 seconds to complete

my torrent very slow….
any idea to speed up??huh

150 Jul 09, 2006 at 15:38 by qmacl26

when i try to install that progam for windows xp it always abor after it ask will the nam of the files change all the through the patching it says if you say no it abort but i pick yes and it aborted any way and tells me to change the file names by myself what do i do

151 Jul 12, 2006 at 23:25 by steveo

this is ace i went from 40kbps to 600 WOW i can get a film in an hour how ace is that

152 Jul 13, 2006 at 00:58 by Jason

hey ppl, i tried changin my half tcp connection fingy to 80 n it made no difference. Den i went to check on de event viewer n into system n it showed heaps of warnins like around 30. Can sumone help me?

153 Jul 26, 2006 at 16:31 by The King

Hey all,
I am a newbie to Bitcomet so please take it easy with me if i look so stupid asking this question.
I have installed the patch and i want to know if the numbers you type in the patch i.e 80 will have to be the same numbers you type in the Bitcomet Preferences.

Thankz in Advance.

154 Jul 27, 2006 at 16:04 by mahmed

hiiiiiiiiii

155 Jul 29, 2006 at 12:01 by aneee

i am using windows me & i am using bitcomet but my download rates are really slow.please,someone help

156 Jul 31, 2006 at 07:42 by ReDeamer

Changed the TCP/IP half open setting to 80, done the same in BitComet, reduced the upload to 20 and my downloads have gone from around 30 to 100+ it seems to work for me :-)

157 Aug 02, 2006 at 21:27 by Stuey

Just kept the downloads them same speed for me…

158 Aug 04, 2006 at 11:32 by Big C

i have bitcomet and my download speeds are realy slow, about 10-20 kb/s.
ive tried the patch and nearly every method on here and nothing seems to work, is there anything to help me, thanks alot :)

159 Aug 05, 2006 at 02:48 by zarathustra

The single best thing ANY of you can do with slow downloads is cap your upload speed to a MAX of 80% of the maximum your upload can attain.
Since doing so, I’ve gone from 3kB/s to currently 128kB/s. I have also installed Lvllord’s patch & set max.half-open to 70.

Good luck! =]

160 Aug 08, 2006 at 22:49 by Gazbo

Great advice guys, worked for me a treat, now downloading 90MB files in under 15 mins, average download speed has trippled, thanks again, great work!!!

161 Aug 10, 2006 at 01:31 by C0B01

I think this download is a load of bull.. I have a 8Mbit connection, and was getting (relatively) low speeds of 40-50kbs and after running the patch, doing everything as it says, my connection speed has now dropped to less that 10kbs sometimes even 2kbs (slower than dial up!!)… my connection is now running at about 2% utalization. I am going to have to do a complete system reinstall because of this download. ANYONE READING THIS BEWARE – DONT DOWNLOAD AND RUN THIS HACK/PATCH.

I installed this on a relatively new box running XP sp2. 3Ghz, 1025MB RAM @ 3200.

162 Aug 11, 2006 at 01:16 by p00ch0

how do i check my upload speed?

another thing, windows keeps on changing my max TCP connections. how do i stop that

163 Aug 15, 2006 at 00:14 by Cheeeser

ok i download at like 1-10kB/s and this usually take ages use this patch i get around double it now is there anyway to speed this up ive heard about forwarding ports but whats the port number that BitComet uses?

164 Aug 21, 2006 at 16:29 by Gaping Ape

Tried all the suggestions, and it made a huge difference. Was only getting 20-25Kbps, now 300-400Kbps! Also checked out Cable Nut and Zone Alarm. Both are really helpful to me, whereas I am not an expert on anything PC related. Thanks for the tips guys.

165 Aug 23, 2006 at 03:21 by Renegade

I’ve change it just like you said and it works great !!! Thanx!

166 Aug 27, 2006 at 18:35 by unnown

the patch is infected with a trojan

167 Aug 27, 2006 at 19:17 by Ernesto

[quote comment="10765"]the patch is infected with a trojan[/quote]

No It’s NOT
Some antivirus apps may report it as a trojan but it’s perfectly safe
100%

168 Aug 28, 2006 at 09:56 by tramline

Why are so many people on here bragging or complaining about their speeds and not mentioning thier actual Internet Connection speed. Thats kinda THE most important thing.
I Have a 1.1Mb Dl and 768Kb Ul
I average speeds now of 56KB/S down, 41KB/S up
I used to get 110KB/S down. No tweaking, fiddling, port forwarding or magic will help me. This month I have overrun the fair usage download policy by my ISP. They increase my contention ratio thingy and am left with a slower download speed although the connection speed is the same. Next month it’ll go back to normal again. This is how they explained it to me and i thought it might be useful to share here. So people, Check your Ts & Cs of your ISP!

169 Aug 28, 2006 at 14:01 by tony

tramline is right, check ur isp t&c`s. Also try enabling encryption which will help for a lot of people.
This hack is a lot of shit. Its been around for ages and just plain makes no difference to how many seeds you can connect to.
The d/l speed you get will depend mostly on the number of seeds/ leechers on that torrent. Also the quality of seeds, if you can only upload at 20k don`t expect everyone else to be able to upload much faster. Chances are the other seeders are on similar connection speed to you with their speeds shared amongst the other leechers as well.

Another factor is what tracker you use. If you`re in “Public tracker hell” then don`t be surprised if you get a shit d/l speed. A lot of people on public trackers limit there up speed and don`t stay to seed afterwards. If you want top speed join a private tracker and keep your ratio up or you`ll get booted off!

170 Sep 03, 2006 at 05:57 by MrAnderson

No change.

171 Sep 04, 2006 at 07:26 by Nicholas

hey, i just got a news that BT Engine can really accelerate torrent downloads. Izit true?

172 Sep 11, 2006 at 14:25 by Arkanen

Do author of this article realy do know what he is talking about ??? Half-open connections are temporary, not closed or fully open connections, if connection to some host is fully initiated, its leave half-open pool, it could be just slower connecting to peers, but then it don’t mean anything, you realy don’t need more then 20/s. You know why some of you got realy poor speeds after applying this ? Because setting this too high can saturate your connection leaving no space for real traffic. Remember also that if some connection is open for too long, that means host is busy, or you got realy poor route to him, and that means you won’t get decent speed from him, period.

173 Sep 13, 2006 at 20:16 by scrimshaw

Just a note to everyone… this patch has been around since XP-sp2 was released.
It’s completely safe. Some anti-virus apps may say it’s a virus, trojan, etc, because it
changes the tcp/ip system defaults.
If you want to change it back, just run the patch again, change the half-open connections back to 10, reboot, and all will be back as it was.

It may not work for some people, because the torrent they’re trying may not be solidly seeded… but usually, I find people keep having slow d/l speeds, because they haven’t done port-forwarding. If you haven’t done that, then check out this website, and follow it’s instructions… http://www.portforward.com/help/pfprogression.htm

Lastly, you have to make sure your firewall, is properly configured for your bittorrent client. Either check the client’s support site, or your firewall’s support site, for how to configure it.

Hope this helps some of you…

174 Sep 24, 2006 at 03:59 by Master J

yo man…this thing didnt start workin right away but the patch said that i should restart the comp but i had some downloads going already so i didnt restart…
the download speeds are the same but would it work if i restart???
(guess ill find out tomorrow…:P

175 Sep 28, 2006 at 08:05 by Tool

please tell us how to do this in azureus, i’m stuck with speeds of 8KB/s

176 Sep 29, 2006 at 22:32 by scary

wen i updated to bitcomet 0.73, my download seems to have slowed down

177 Oct 06, 2006 at 09:45 by Suddism

I have a 256k connection and I am using uTorrent I downloaded the patch and installed it doing what I thought was the correct thing. To my suprise my download speed actually sunk to a VERY slow speed which disappoints me, so I had to uninstall the program and my download speed went back to normal. Help would be appreciated, the kind of help that would point me into the direction of how to actually use this program the proper way, considering all the people this has worked for. I would really like to get it working myself so an extra help guide would be great, Ernesto (or whoever can) ,thanks.

178 Oct 06, 2006 at 11:48 by Suddism

well, I got it to work all you do is get the patch put it at a number of upload ips (mines 80) then once that is setup you have to reboot your computer, start the torrent up set the upload limit there to the number you set for the patch (as listed by the author of this post), if you dont get faster download speed its probably because of your connection or maybe its the seed upload speed.

I am currently getting about the same speed I usually get, but just a bit faster.

179 Oct 06, 2006 at 17:29 by BabyTaz

i dont quite understand … what do i do?… with this i have moved it to 80 like it said and i will turn it back but does it make it faster or what does it do im no quite shure :S

180 Oct 09, 2006 at 05:53 by matt

i just reinstalled windows and went to get the tcp/ip patch and the page is not comming up, not sure if it temp down or for good, does anyone have an alternative download point for the tcp/ip patch

181 Oct 09, 2006 at 19:36 by no_pulse

I’m having the same issue some people are having. It seems after applying the patch, my download speeds have dropped. Yet my upload speeds have improved!
Here are my specs: I’m on cable, I’m running both the latest versions of Zone Alarm and Azureus. I’ve noticed that you can configure the torrent client to allow 50-100 max half-open TCP connections in µTorrent and BitComet, but is there any settings in Azureus to apply these changes?

Also is µTorrent or BitComet better than Azureus?

182 Oct 12, 2006 at 00:03 by HAVOC

Anyone know if this works on Windows XP X64, the 64 bit version of Win XP?

183 Oct 12, 2006 at 08:29 by Robby

remeber the more connections u got open the more traffic you have in headers and requests. Most requests could be dropped for all you no, resulting in more overhead..

of cource this is only a small amount but be careful. Only go as far as your connection will let you;)

184 Oct 18, 2006 at 09:21 by Katana75

THIS WORKS LIKE A CHARM. Thanks. I am using uTorrent and i am getting good DL speeds, but this patch has increased my DL Speed drastically. Thnks

185 Oct 20, 2006 at 02:57 by kiwen

can this thing works in malaysia connection? cos im havin the same prob and after tryin it,it doesnt affect much

186 Oct 26, 2006 at 10:34 by Sinister

Hey there, I just did what was required from you in order to ’speed up BitComet,’ but unfortunately I do not seem to be seeing the slighest difference. I downloaded the patch, restarted my computer, changed all the settings which were suggested (e.g. not leaving the ‘maximum download rate’ to ‘unlimited’). I STILL do not seem to see any difference. Is there a certain amount of time which I have to wait before the actual patch gets to work?
Additionally, my seed is 10/40 whilst my peer is 10/649.
How is it possible that I am only connecting to 10 peers out of such a large number of peers available.
HELP NEEDED DRAMATICALLY!
WOULD BE GRATEFUL IF YOU REPLY BY EITHER E-MAILING ME BACK, OR REPLYING TO THE FORUM!
THANKS.

187 Oct 31, 2006 at 18:44 by Priest Ice

I have connection 512kbs, i have problem to get higher download rate using my bitcomet. my peer seem to be lots like 13/24 and damn connected to my port but don’t seem sending me the freakin KB’s that i need!, what the hell should i do? – if i open my DMZ on router in freakin 2 minutes i get notice i get virus and i need to reformat my computer but the shit is i got around 44KB download he he he. And damn suggestion? – thankz to angel’s my damn port is 24000 and it’s freakin cool using this damn port. even my ISP give me damn 288Kbs connectivity is still manage to get 3KB download rate, but any good damn suggestion???

188 Nov 01, 2006 at 18:55 by pinkfishe

I did this a few minutes ago

The patch aborts near the end (sumthin to do with renaming files?).

But can still change it to 80 so thats gd

so far no difference tho :/

189 Nov 02, 2006 at 23:37 by khoy

this work fine for me. i was getting 4kb amd now am getting
26kb+ so thanks guys.

190 Nov 07, 2006 at 03:26 by tipsy

How do people get their download rate to 500kbs per sec??Thats amazing my rate is around 20-30 only…

191 Nov 08, 2006 at 17:49 by f0xh4x0r

Because some people live in an area of the world where bandwidth is always unlimited and speeds are plentiful, while in other parts you have a monthly bandwidth limit and get very slow “bandwidth” speeds. I download around 3000 KBps. But some can go up to even higher than that (people in college and people that have access to large companies internet connection)

192 Nov 12, 2006 at 10:42 by kao

help my download speed is still slow but i have 76 peers and 7 seeds and i did the pacth thing too e-mail me at makaxblood@sbcglobal.net plzzz.

193 Nov 14, 2006 at 00:08 by david

I was getting 2kb/s and then i forwarded to my router the port used by utorrent and now i’m getting 200+kb/s. Just thought I’d pass on what’s worked for me. Very simple with no patch, this is my first time running utorrent. In preferences go to ‘connections’ and find: ‘port used for incoming connections’. This is the port that you want to forward. Forward one for tcp and then another udp. That’s all I did and now I’m getting super-fast speeds.

194 Nov 14, 2006 at 21:56 by scapino

hmm .. the speed didn’t change. thank you anyway

195 Nov 16, 2006 at 10:57 by dammit

can anyone tell me what my upload, download, tcp all those settings should be if my connection is 100mbps.i noticd that my max upload is 55kb/s but i dun know about my max download. can someone tell me whats the best setting? thx in advance

196 Nov 18, 2006 at 12:16 by Max

================================================
NO changes are done after patching and configure torrent’s program

it depends only how many peers have my file !!

this way will work great at high scale :::
>>if there is too many peers have my file and my download speed is very high >4Mb and i can’t use all of it’s BW.
so, at this situation this way will be Excellent.

================================================

197 Nov 27, 2006 at 16:47 by infusia

Help, i can’t seem to get the utorrent port forwarding working. I went thru the portforward website stilll i can’t get it done. My com is connected to a router and i did the configurations but stil can’t achieve a portforwarding detection. What do i do?The worst thing is that uTorrent is not even downloading anything even though seed and peers are sorta detected 0(xxx) and 0(xxx). I am really in desperation. This has been going on for nearly 1 and a half months. the fucking isps

198 Dec 12, 2006 at 02:16 by marco

how do you decrease your uploading rate on utorrent

199 Dec 14, 2006 at 15:30 by eden

decreasing your upload speed will decrease your download speed, it’s in the options, have you looked? i wouldn’t bother.

200 Dec 17, 2006 at 15:41 by NIKOLAS

NIKOLAS BEST

201 Dec 17, 2006 at 16:40 by MetalManiak

This stuff really works! My speeds are now tripeled ,if not more… Anyone wants a faster download,THIS IS IT!!!
Thanx man,youre a genious!!

202 Dec 18, 2006 at 18:48 by Sameerf

When I try to install this, I get this message:

Can someone help me? Even though I’m on a 54mpbs wireless broadband connection I only get 14kbps on a 70seed-30peer file. ??? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

203 Dec 18, 2006 at 18:49 by Sameerf

MESSAGE: http://img62.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bitcometnu3.png

204 Dec 18, 2006 at 19:54 by Ernesto

[quote comment="30575"]When I try to install this, I get this message:

Can someone help me? Even though I’m on a 54mpbs wireless broadband connection I only get 14kbps on a 70seed-30peer file. ??? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.[/quote]
Did you try all the other settings. If you only get 14kbps, this patch wont help either. What is your max upload and max download speed?

205 Dec 21, 2006 at 02:23 by AnImA

Hello all

With the new BitComet version (0.79) you can configure your half open connections in the preferences menu, so no need for the patch…
I first set it to 80 but saw in the statistics window that they never exceeded the max of 35 so set it to 35 obviously ;). I have Cable connection (20mbps/512kbps). Atm not much change in speed…

Greetz

206 Dec 23, 2006 at 18:08 by pclearner

[quote comment="21730"]I was getting 2kb/s and then i forwarded to my router the port used by utorrent and now i’m getting 200+kb/s. Just thought I’d pass on what’s worked for me. Very simple with no patch, this is my first time running utorrent. In preferences go to ‘connections’ and find: ‘port used for incoming connections’. This is the port that you want to forward. Forward one for tcp and then another udp. That’s all I did and now I’m getting super-fast speeds.[/quote]

Did you use static ip ? or juz forward the port only?

207 Dec 24, 2006 at 18:05 by reddevil

I cant really see any differance in opening more half open connections i tryed it on 80 and theres no difference to 10, but some downloads i can get 500kb/s+ and other are 100kb/s and less i think it only really matter how many seeders you have to download from

208 Dec 26, 2006 at 06:27 by l1nk1n

it does NOT work for bitcomet. i already had a download speed of 143kb/s and it didnt go up after changing to 80. it dont do shit for anything, its just a program to mess up your windows files. it’s pretty much a virus. it will try to crash windows xp SP2.

209 Dec 29, 2006 at 05:15 by Adrian

Hi, I am having trouble with this. I have done everything here and my speed is still at 10-30kb/s but when i go down to Statistics in BitComet the Overall Rate is 60kb/s but it is only downloading at 10kb/s on the downbloading page.
The upload it going to 12kb/s faster than the downloading and i tried everything please help me!!!!
Email:reddy_red182@hotmail.com

210 Dec 29, 2006 at 14:24 by help

i am not sure is it safe i have bittorrent .my internet speed varies grom 400kbps to 768kbps
but my download rate is only 1,2,3 or 4kbps

211 Dec 29, 2006 at 14:34 by n00bie mc n00bster

Do u have to rebbot after installin patch cos im in the middle of several downloads and if they stop i automatically get rejected from broadband and are shaped to 64k internet pls help?

212 Dec 29, 2006 at 17:36 by dragoslav

you are very very good!!!!

213 Jan 01, 2007 at 17:50 by scruff

wireracer If your having trouble connecting to bitcomet try u torrent SOME versions off bitcomet have been banned on various torrent sites for sharing with non members. I used to use bitcomet and liked it. but mine got nuked so I switched.

214 Jan 03, 2007 at 12:28 by storhet

i did a speed test and i have a download speed of 5556kb/s and upload speed of 247kb/s. However my download speed in BitComet is less than 20KB/s though im connected to a large number of seeds ie. 24/36[30/277]. I also changed my max half open tcp connections to 80 but it aint working. Some1 please help me. Can email me at slitboi@hotmail.com.

215 Jan 03, 2007 at 22:43 by DMAN

Good job. Pretty Big Improvement. So what are the security issues of having 80 concurrent TCP connections?

216 Jan 05, 2007 at 14:02 by mitch2k

thanks it worked…. i was about to reinstall my windows… didnt realized that it sp2 that screwed up my downloading speed … thanks again

217 Jan 05, 2007 at 22:31 by zoli

fdv

218 Jan 07, 2007 at 06:16 by MirroredSoul

Thank you so much for sharing the patch. I was only getting 80kbps, now i’m getting 500kbps. This is awesome!

219 Jan 08, 2007 at 18:18 by Andydud

NEED HELP!

I am using XP SP2, using UTorrent, ovbiously have he same problem as others – slow download speeds.

I have downloaded and installed the patch, but when it is installed, it asks me to insert the SP2 Disk!!! Why?

Also how do i decrease the upload speed?

PLEASE HELP!!!

220 Jan 10, 2007 at 06:36 by Dawgnip

Isn’t this already an option in Bitcomet? Preferences, TCP/IP Limit? Kind of like reiventing fire.

221 Jan 10, 2007 at 11:22 by fdsfds

sweet, i usually get 40-40kps. But its going now around 120-140kps now after the patch change. However I did need to reboot and wait around 15-20 minutes of downloading in bitcomet for the settings to kick in. For the people who didnt work, wait a little and give it a chance, it will start speeding up slowly and then hit over 100kps/

222 Jan 11, 2007 at 15:35 by Gordon

[quote comment="31074"]Hello all
With the new BitComet version (0.79) you can configure your half open connections in the preferences menu, so no need for the patch..
Greetz[/quote]

Yes there is. It doesn’t help just to do it in your client,
it’s WINDOWS that limits the HALF_OPEN connections via the protected
systemfile tcpip.sys. You need to “hack” that file and change the limmit
from 10 to whatever you want . That is also why you need to reboot
and windows asks for the CD . It detects that a protected systemfile has been
changed and wants to “protect” it again be re-installing the un-changed file.
just say “no” to that .
That is also why some AV’s flag it as a “virus” or “threat” .. it is NOT .. it just changes a
protected system file and any program that does that is pr. definition a “threat”
But this is an old patch, hordes of people have used it and it does NO HARM whatsoever to your system, unlike the max 10 HALF_OPEN connections limit.
Of course this wont change anything if you are already maxing out your bandwidth .

223 Jan 18, 2007 at 19:43 by steve optiplex 620 7900 GTO

well…. after running the patch i couldnt see much diffrence, although it was staying above 70kbs somewhat more than before.. so i then read on this forum that coldfax had put his upload task to 1, and his upload slot to 1, with [no limit] so as to save bandwidth. so i decided to alter mine to those upload figures, and hey presto im flying at a comfortable 120-147kbs. before this i was always under 100, averaging 80 but now im never under 100…wicked..’.’.; hopefully this fucker will stay put as it is, cos the previous figures were not as spectacular. i know its probably not as blazing as some of your figures, but its a god send for me…… see ya////’

224 Jan 24, 2007 at 09:43 by jack

[quote comment="157"]this message is for ROOT..
you stupid fucking moron numnet..
dumshit don’t talk when u don’t understand shit…..
if you don’t connect to other user then how you know what they got..you dumpshit[/quote]
The host is giving out some very good advise and you are bull shitting. Get a better life you freak!

225 Jan 24, 2007 at 13:56 by jravs14

Thanks. Very effective. Try it!!! Nothing to lose anyway. For me it have worked.

226 Jan 24, 2007 at 14:51 by jravs14

[quote comment="42653"]Thanks. Very effective. Try it!!! Nothing to lose anyway. For me it has worked.[/quote]

227 Jan 24, 2007 at 14:52 by jravs14

Thanks. Very effective. Try it!!! Nothing to lose anyway. For me it has worked.[/quote]

228 Jan 25, 2007 at 21:42 by cheaaa

Hey guys,

Do you have to restart your computer in order for this patch to work?

229 Jan 27, 2007 at 20:11 by Dark

hey guys I need help with this. MY speed stays at like 7 kb’s even after I did all this and i have 768k dsl. any help somebody AIM me @ michaelmyersx21

230 Jan 30, 2007 at 08:54 by dog

I am new to torrents. WinXP SP2. 512/256kbps dsl.

After install utorrent, i got 1-2kB/s download for 8 hours.
After i read forums tips, and perform the tips below, i got 32kB/s average for the same files for the last 3 hours.

1. Port forward on my router.
2. Patch TCP/IP halfopen connections from 10 to 80.
3. Change utorrent max-net-halfopen to 80.
4. Enable Protocol Encyption in utorrent.
5. Set my upload limit to 20kB/s (60% of upload spd).

Thanks to the helpful helpers.

231 Feb 03, 2007 at 05:00 by kupo666

ok i have been useing bitcomet for about 2 days now and i have been going over all the faqs about speeding it up iam stuck i get at or around 50-70 k and thats it i have tryed every thing i must not be doing it right but could some one point me in the right …sorry i suck at spelling direction i need to get faster downloads its jaming my com up and i need them to be done fast i work with this com as well but hey any help is nice

232 Feb 03, 2007 at 09:32 by 4220niller

this improved my speed alot! but i didnt use the patch though anyways before my speed way around 2-15 KB/s now its on 50-100 KB/s

233 Feb 05, 2007 at 06:17 by AnImA

[quote comment="37812"][quote comment="31074"]Hello all
With the new BitComet version (0.79) you can configure your half open connections in the preferences menu, so no need for the patch..
Greetz[/quote]

Yes there is. It doesn’t help just to do it in your client,
it’s WINDOWS that limits the HALF_OPEN connections via the protected
systemfile tcpip.sys. You need to “hack” that file and change the limmit
from 10 to whatever you want . That is also why you need to reboot
and windows asks for the CD . It detects that a protected systemfile has been
changed and wants to “protect” it again be re-installing the un-changed file.
just say “no” to that .
That is also why some AV’s flag it as a “virus” or “threat” .. it is NOT .. it just changes a
protected system file and any program that does that is pr. definition a “threat”
But this is an old patch, hordes of people have used it and it does NO HARM whatsoever to your system, unlike the max 10 HALF_OPEN connections limit.
Of course this wont change anything if you are already maxing out your bandwidth .[/quote]

That’s not what i mean’t…
The BitComet client changes the half open connections limit in the tcpip.sys file, first it copies the original and replaces it with a new one,then it temporarely disables the win system file protection and changes the max half-open connections… Reboot is also necessary.

Greetz

234 Feb 05, 2007 at 13:05 by Dazza

wow went form 2 to 50 k in utorrent thanks man

235 Feb 06, 2007 at 16:26 by Phlash

I have a big problem…..i am on wireless, well the the wireless internet runs on my dads pc, and i go on the net through his computer with wireless, i tried ALL the methods, the tcp thing and everything, im just looking for speeds from 10-15kbs, right now,all i get is max 1kbs,my normal internet speed is around 15kbs so thats all i want,and i use bitcomet, cause all the other lame clients hasn’t go the NAT firewall thing….

236 Feb 09, 2007 at 03:07 by ShoobaDooba

I have bitcomet .83, and in the preferences menu, I don’t see anything where i can configure max half-open TCP. can you do this in BC .83?

237 Feb 09, 2007 at 23:42 by litterbug_kid

thanks alot! I changed my max half-open TCP to 80 and it went up from 0kb downloading to about 20!

238 Feb 15, 2007 at 04:11 by AnImA

[quote comment="47245"]I have bitcomet .83, and in the preferences menu, I don’t see anything where i can configure max half-open TCP. can you do this in BC .83?[/quote]

Dunno, i have 0.79, there it’s in prefences -> advanced -> TCP/IP limit…

Greetz

239 Feb 17, 2007 at 11:38 by highercontrast

if you really want fast download speeds get yourself a news server like giganews, it pisses all over torrents!

240 Feb 18, 2007 at 04:11 by Jeff

speed is not a problem but i can only dl 1 torrent @ a time. Why? (my tcp is @ 0 but not affecting my speed). Anyone know why? it just won’t connect to anyone. Need this fixed.

241 Feb 18, 2007 at 05:06 by Jeff

just occured to me that there are a lot more questions than answers here. guess i’ll look elsewhere……..btw…as stated above, my tcp is showing as 0 but still get 300 – 500 kb/s. just can’t download more than one file @ a time. probably won’t check back here but if anyone has an answer to this (probably) simple problem email me @ janders87@hotmail.com. thanx

242 Feb 18, 2007 at 12:55 by mary

“Welcome to use BitComet new feature – Media File Preview. If your download speed is above 200K, the play will start in about 1 minute, and it will take about 3-5 minutes if your download speed is around 100k. Thank you for your support! ” I do not what i can do i want watch films but …

243 Feb 22, 2007 at 08:36 by cat

I have a big problem…..with 0.84 edition. my download speed was 300-600k but now is 3k some-times 0k and shown out this message. “”your listen port is unreachable to public domain peer’s please check your firewall and NAT router configurations”" if anyone has an answer to this pls email to c2006f@hotmail.com thanx.

244 Feb 28, 2007 at 00:23 by nIXn

it really seems to work O_o the virus warning is scary tho

245 Feb 28, 2007 at 00:56 by Kal-El

yo this is the best no virus wat so ever and tweaked it, i was on 0-15kbs now im gettn 150 which im happy wit!

246 Feb 28, 2007 at 16:14 by the head

wat a crock of shit tryed it put it back to normal on utorrent.an it works better

247 Mar 13, 2007 at 18:03 by big cat

I have a problem…..with 0.84 edition too. my download speed was 30-100 but now is 0k and shown out this message. “”your listen port is unreachable to public domain peer’s please check your firewall and NAT router configurations”" if anyone has an answer to this pls email to dns789@yahoo.com thanks.

248 Mar 14, 2007 at 18:01 by Dc

Well i did most of everything you said to do to speed up bitcomet( i have 0.86) andi’m still geting barrly any to no download. the most i have gotten is 116 kb/s, but usually i only get 1-20 and my setings are turned up. i have wind xp. please help. disstilldeath@yahoo.com

249 Mar 15, 2007 at 00:36 by Bushido

It increased my Upload speed not download speed. Lol

250 Mar 17, 2007 at 13:16 by jame king

cool i went to 111kb, that was a 1st.

how to reset to normal dl, befre i hcanged it?

251 Mar 22, 2007 at 05:04 by joe morgan

i have a question about uploading. if i upload a lot will it increase my download rate for bitcomet?

252 Mar 30, 2007 at 23:04 by mitch

Hey all, When I try and open the patch it just gives me an error and alerts me to this having spywear. Ive had the same problem happen with a few serial keygens. Im running AVG internet security and even when I shut this down it still doesnt execute.

Any ideas whats going on?

Thanks

253 Mar 31, 2007 at 02:51 by Ash

This really works , thanks mate for this information, i were getting around 40/kbs now i get 120/kbs

Thanks!!

254 Mar 31, 2007 at 16:18 by mcolnahek

Woohoo! After tweaking my settings and running the patch, my downloadspeed went from 80kB/s to 250 kB/s! Thank you!!

255 Apr 01, 2007 at 01:16 by Ash

Right the other day it was wroking fine now back to normal , i made sure that the tcp didnt change nad it hasnt any advice

256 Apr 03, 2007 at 10:34 by Me

dumbasses. you dont even need to download a patch to change that setting, you can do it in options noobs. not that it matters anyway it does 5/8th of f*** all anyway

257 Apr 06, 2007 at 18:36 by shaj

i downloaded a torent file(1.8 gb)
94.2%, but i can’t complete fully

258 Apr 08, 2007 at 07:07 by Rayner

Thanks alot guys, this thing really worked, I thought that this article was mad in hyper space… but it worked great for my connection

259 Apr 09, 2007 at 23:28 by yhgdj

I’m connected to over 30 fucking peers and my speeds are still shit. I changed everything that the guide said to change. My internet speed is 575 kB/s download and 150 kB/s upload.

I’m getting less than 20 kB/s on C&C3, its a new torrent with a shit load of seeders and my speeds are still crap.

Any help would be much appreciated, I’m fed up with these shitty ass speeds.

260 Apr 19, 2007 at 17:57 by Max

i cand download the file:(..can someone help me ?

261 Apr 22, 2007 at 03:16 by autumnleaf

how would this actually help me?

my avg. speed is ~250 kbs; max speed i get is ~400-500 kbs. and i connect to ~200 peers atm. i use utorrent and already set up a static ip.

would doing this still help my dl speed and if so any idea how much.
i have xp sp2 with comcast cable and internet at 100 mbs

262 May 03, 2007 at 20:50 by looneytunes

hey thanx a lot man!

263 May 04, 2007 at 08:04 by antionline

Utorrent is the best!

Another stupid tweak from antionline! (Broadband Connection only & Utorrent) i don’t know it’s work with another connection or not.

- not use DHCP.check your TCP/IP properties(network connection). input manually IP,subnet,gateway&DNS.
- try change your ip while using utorrent.ex : xxx.xxx.61x.25 to xxx.xxx.61x.40 so on.
watch your utorrent dl speed.if not increase,try change another ip.
- use port 6882/6884.you should have green light.
- always change your ip.when downloading from utorrent.

it sound stupid,but it’s work with me.my connection 64kB and i can fully get max speed,around 40-55kB.

264 May 12, 2007 at 18:35 by Army

Hey ppl’s. I Have a 11 mbps speed on my com and did all this stuff on the page, I even got tried to get the best seeds, and I got em. But my torrent speed on utorrent is still 5 kbps,. Can someone help me get up to at least 1.5 mbps?

265 May 14, 2007 at 06:01 by tropcky

man really thank u i trayed thes themgs u sed and it really works really warks

266 May 15, 2007 at 18:21 by dove anti aging

Hi! Beautiful site.

267 May 16, 2007 at 03:23 by Xichael

Apparently this is all totally unnecessary. See:
http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=10872#p188404

268 May 16, 2007 at 14:50 by aging anti skin treatment

Hi! Beautiful site.

269 May 18, 2007 at 04:45 by pphhhtttt

hey, thankyou much for this. it did help

270 May 20, 2007 at 06:44 by drummer_boy

HELLO EVERY1, i need HELP.
i used to have bitcomet and the patch worked a bit, but then i uninstalled it. now that i have re installed it i cant use the patch. if i go into the tcpip limit thing it says “This version of TCPIP.SYS is not supported to be modified” i tried to use the patch (and i restarted) but its still like that and i cant change the limit at all!!

any help would be appreciated thnx

271 Jun 06, 2007 at 18:58 by ivan

do i need to reboot my pc

272 Jun 06, 2007 at 19:53 by Ernesto

[quote comment="110970"]do i need to reboot my pc[/quote]
no you don’t

273 Jun 07, 2007 at 08:25 by Gamer

The speed test said my max download speed is 798kb/s.I used the patch but i still cannot get above 120kb/s
and it is just too slow at this speed i need to wait 3 hours to download 1.5 GB of data. Why cant i get atleast 500 kb/s? someone help me out here, im about ready to pull out my hair!

274 Jun 09, 2007 at 20:50 by K-Dog

You probably won’t notice a difference right away. Give it an hour or two. It took me that long and I saw the download speed tripple RIGHT infront of my eyes! Thanks! REALLY WORKS.

275 Jun 12, 2007 at 13:48 by smart man

I think whislt you all are using P2P you should all be Using PeerGuardian2 it is a magic program which is absolutley perfect for increasing your download speeds as it stops goverment and educational sites from tryin to connect in as a PEER or SEEDER :D

Yours Truly Wise Old Bald Man

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278 Jun 19, 2007 at 21:05 by ian

hi, i’m completely new t this torret stuff. Butw, i’m using vista and i was wondering if i could download the patch to?

279 Jun 20, 2007 at 15:04 by Sam

im using BitLord wt do i do i downloaded this patch
plz help

280 Jun 21, 2007 at 05:28 by jimbodawg

Well, this helped on BitComet alot.
Original: 800kb/s
Current: 4.2mb/s
Thank you.

281 Jun 22, 2007 at 17:07 by Big O

[quote comment="113460"]I think whislt you all are using P2P you should all be Using PeerGuardian2 it is a magic program which is absolutley perfect for increasing your download speeds as it stops goverment and educational sites from tryin to connect in as a PEER or SEEDER :D

Yours Truly Wise Old Bald Man[/quote]

That’s for damn sure…. PG2 is a must.

282 Jun 24, 2007 at 17:56 by Charlene

Hey guys i use bitcomet and my seeds and peers have increased. and tcp is at 60 but its made me download speed even worse. its at 5kB. please help

283 Jun 25, 2007 at 22:46 by Seb

No change… :(

284 Jul 05, 2007 at 08:34 by Aaron

Hi

whenever i put it over 10 it doesent
download at all, it only downloads when exactly on 10?????

285 Jul 17, 2007 at 22:17 by dudeman

thx a lot man. my dl speed is doubled. u rock.

286 Jul 24, 2007 at 08:20 by Derek

Before i was running at a 20kb and below, i followed JUST the settings changes and now im running at 70+ THANKS A TUN MAN.

287 Jul 25, 2007 at 16:13 by Chewy

Dude!

After installing the patch my computer crashed saying major error please restart and came up with a blue screen! That worries me :(

I don’t quite understand the utorrent preferences bit…

“uTorrent: Options > Preferences > Advanced options > net.max_halfopen

tcputorrent”

Do i change this setting to 50? Or what?

My torrents are weird after portforwarding my router it did a great job of going 200kb/s+ but other times go bk down to 50kb/s+ so i tried this out~ makes no difference at all…unless I’m doing it wrong? Help please for the 16 year old :) x

288 Jul 28, 2007 at 05:02 by J Dark Shadow

run the patch again and make sure its patched for 100 connections or less…not more.

and for uTorrent: Options > Preferences > Advanced options > net.max_halfopen

put *100 if your TCP/IP patch is set to 100…or *50 if you patched for 50…know what I mean…

J Dark Shadow

289 Jul 31, 2007 at 22:56 by joshua

very good man thx alot tripled my speed U ROCK!!

290 Jul 31, 2007 at 23:39 by joshua

it hasent tripled anymore it has quadroupled from 60 to 230!!!!!

291 Aug 06, 2007 at 14:51 by anemos

Hello to all.Please excuse me,but i dont speak english well.I ve downloaded the patch.I can really need some help here because in the beginning it seemed that it was working,then i show that message that
you discribe “Look for event 4226″
How can i fix it again?what number i should put here?(net.max_halfopen)
And there is always a message in the μtorrent that says that my firewall or my router are blocking the system,but its not true about the firewall because i fixed it a long time ago..

292 Aug 09, 2007 at 10:08 by Archbishop Shaggy

Since nobody seems to be paying asking this, and the only mention to possible security risks was way off in it’s accuracy, I thought I’d post here what the dangers are. I have discovered from many queries and surfing lots of tech sites, that main purpose of limiting half open connections is to limit your vulnerability to a SYN attack. This is a type of denial of service attack it would seem. If you wish to know more about this, feel free to google it. But seriously guys, it’s a really bad idea to do something without checking the dangers first. However, for most of you this won’t create a problem, I do not however vouch for the safety of these patches, I have not tried them, and don’t know if they are trojans or not.

293 Aug 12, 2007 at 06:38 by maddog

i dont understand… im a computer noob and i was wondering how this works? like i installed the patch and changed it to 50, but what do i do with net.max_halfopen in utorrent advanced options? please respond my dl is currently at 0.5kb/s

294 Aug 19, 2007 at 06:40 by solo

hey…. does this work with Vista?

295 Aug 25, 2007 at 20:41 by ani

i have downloaded the patch and installed it but still there is no difference can anyone plz help me

296 Aug 30, 2007 at 03:54 by phantomlife66

This thing really works man, My connection use 384 / 64 ADSL 1.0. I usually get no max speed 10kBps, After I change the number of half open tcp connection in Bitcomet 0.90, restart and SNAP, It goes 30kBps ++ and running steadily beetwen 27-30 kBps, and sometimes it maxed out to 36kBps.

I previously used uTorrent 1.61, it works good, but the Download speed not running steadily beetwen 20 – 30 kBps it goes beetween 15 – 27 kBps. I finally found out that uTorrent keep on changing the client that being connected to. But uTorrent have few advantages which setting for upload slot that can be done manually, Bitcomet can’t.

Thanks Brother.

notes : the torrent have 25 seed / 475peers.

297 Sep 02, 2007 at 00:05 by jashi

Thnkz
Gr8 Difference when i apply patch my download limit changer from 6 kb/s to 225 kb/s
Gr8 my frd

298 Sep 03, 2007 at 04:52 by MaoDi

anyways, about this, i’m not sure if it works becuz i’m downloading sumthing right now and haven’t tried yet but, anyone who trusts d-link uses it’s router is a complete idiot becuz d0link sucks ass at making routers! and the connections are crap, new look…crap! anyways d-link is just shit and sucks i swear even if the prices of them are cheap, its still not worth buying! kk? that’s a fact not an opinion.

299 Sep 03, 2007 at 04:55 by MaoDi

Also, windows vista sucks too, everything is so slow on it and all that it’s good for the looks, come on microsoft, ur not improving…make the stuff faster!

300 Sep 04, 2007 at 02:38 by El Diego

OMG! Thanks dude! My connection used to fall evry 15 mins or so… I went to the event viewer and it was full of “TCP/IP Max limit reached”!! WTF!? I done this trick and it was solved! X-D

301 Sep 05, 2007 at 16:16 by Nitish

Iv got Vista and the patch gives me the error:

Error read file “C:\Windows\System32\drivers\TCPIP.SYS”
at position 0.

302 Sep 11, 2007 at 03:37 by deathtoll

hey since i installed this patch on my laptop utorrent hasnt been working at all. it opens up but none of the torrents in there will connect or even pick up on any ports. im behind a server which i cannot alter but this isnt a problem because i have been using torrents behind it all year. any help would be much appreciated. and yes i am using xpsp2

303 Sep 13, 2007 at 11:18 by ssnd

I did not install the patch and only changed the number to 80.

This made a HUGE different in my downloadspeed…

Btw i´m using uTorrent 1.7.4

Thanks !

///ssnd

304 Sep 24, 2007 at 02:31 by james

the most important thing you have to do to increase torrent download speeds is port forwarding..some routers require you to set up an static i.p first..google PORT FORWARDING an STATIC I.P…

305 Oct 01, 2007 at 10:02 by torrentNoob

hi guys, can someone help me…
after i installed the patch, every time i turned on the bitcomet the event 4226 always there and my browsing speed become as slow as snail…
but it remains like that even though i’ve reset the half open thing back to 10 and uninstalled the patch..

306 Oct 25, 2007 at 02:21 by nick

my computer wont work and i dont no how to fix it like the internet wont work it shows up cant connect im using windows mediea player how do i fix it fast?

307 Oct 25, 2007 at 18:55 by Xp User

DO NOT DO THIS, IM HAVING TROUBLE WITH INTERNET AND MY DOWNLOADS TURNED FROM 80KB/S TO 9KB/S!!!! TRUST MY THIS WILL ONLY MESS THINGS UP, LEAVE YOUR PC THE WAY IT IS!!!!!!

308 Oct 29, 2007 at 01:32 by wawaweewa

wtf it doesnt work for vista,,, wut can i do if i have Vista ???

309 Oct 29, 2007 at 12:24 by Bojangles

@ wawaweewa

Have you upgraded to latest version of client? I upgraded to bitcomet 0.93 and it allowed me to change half open connections

310 Oct 31, 2007 at 11:52 by bekimo95_@hotmail.com

Hi all i tested the patch but it still runs in 50 kbs or lower im using telia bredband 8mbit but i have upp to 2mbit well can anyone send an email how to optimise my settings to be full speed of my internet connection..sorry for my bad english hehe im from sweden :) plz send an email with an speed guide and i know i have read many speed guides but it doesnt help..so plz send an to my hotmail bekimo95_@hotmail.com

311 Nov 01, 2007 at 11:08 by jophil

man, i’m using vista.
i have a 1mb connection and i can only download less than 10kbps.
what should i do?
please email me at jophil.zosa@gmail.com.

btw, im from the Philippines.

312 Nov 09, 2007 at 16:00 by andygammon

hi im been dl star tek movies for 2 weeks now and cant get above 2kb/s ive tryed patch to open conections with no joy iam on 3g broadband with 3.6mb dl

313 Nov 09, 2007 at 16:02 by andygammon

oh sorry useing bitlord 1.1 if that help tryed bitcomet 2 but no good

314 Nov 10, 2007 at 17:48 by YOYO

Yeah, I have Vista and I can’t use the patch, some error comes up? But I was able to change utorrent to *80… but i dont think it has made a difference yet…

ANYONE KNOW WHAT TO DO FOR VISTA?

315 Nov 14, 2007 at 17:19 by lasz

Hi
i used the patch and set the max to 100 and in utorrent to 60
seeds 10(78)
peers 58(393)

This is a pretty popular torrent yet i see no changes in my down speed

anyone any suggestions?
thnx

316 Nov 14, 2007 at 18:30 by Gaara

Im not allowed to open a port on our router, adminestrator is an ass. Anyway is there some other magical way i can speed up torrents other than opening ports?

My torrents is running at 1kb/s!?!?!?!!?!

PLzzz tell me there is a way to speed it up!

317 Nov 18, 2007 at 02:52 by Kill_steR from Msia

HEllo…..i have a problem with the tcp/ip .in the event viewer…4226 is the problem.how can i fix this thing???? someone pliz help me

318 Nov 18, 2007 at 15:23 by Jaya Senan

most probably you all cannot connect to all of the peers is because of a few factors. remember to do port forwarding. It wll increase your downloading speed.Use other sofwares to increase to your downloading speed. Also do not enable upnp port mapping. You can set that settings in the preferences. Your downloading speed will increase!!!

319 Nov 22, 2007 at 19:00 by Anonymous

download TCPOptimizer it will sort out most of your problames.

320 Nov 23, 2007 at 12:35 by Anonymous

[quote comment="221128"]download TCPOptimizer it will sort out most of your problames.[/quote]
[quote comment="213242"]Hi
i used the patch and set the max to 100 and in utorrent to 60
seeds 10(78)
peers 58(393)

This is a pretty popular torrent yet i see no changes in my down speed

anyone any suggestions?
thnx[/quote]
[quote comment="94"]increasing the half-open connections won’t necessarily speed up your torrents…..remember, in the world of bittorrent, more Connections does NOT equal faster speeds. If a peer has something you need, they will connect to you, and such.

And of course, use protection…lol[/quote]

321 Nov 25, 2007 at 00:14 by jESU

How does it work with vista?

322 Nov 30, 2007 at 06:34 by Buppalo

What do I do if I have Vista?

323 Dec 03, 2007 at 16:25 by Anonymous

no different man.. i aready dled and installed the patch. The result is still the same. same spped same upload.

324 Dec 03, 2007 at 16:25 by k3lvln7e7a

[quote comment="230037"]no different man.. i aready dled and installed the patch. The result is still the same. same spped same upload.[/quote]

325 Dec 05, 2007 at 01:08 by Saviour the Zero

Remember, eventhough this patch will help your dl speed the factor that has the most effect is the torrent itself. If you dont have a good torrent (low seeds/peers or the seed/peer ratio is off) your speed won’t be able to reach high speeds in the first place. For example, one torrent I was not able to get more than 60kBs while on another I got over 400kBs easily

326 Dec 11, 2007 at 16:35 by Potanes

f**k the patch is a malware…

327 Dec 14, 2007 at 06:47 by Steve

aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I BROKE MY NOSE!!!!!!!!!!!! IT IS BLEEDING EVERYWHERE!! INCLUDING ON MY LAPTOP!!! SOOO MUCH BLOOD!! I AM BECOMING AROUSED!!!

328 Dec 17, 2007 at 15:43 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:

329 Jan 08, 2008 at 14:36 by sol123

i set up my bitcomet following instruction on the web,(http://forums.bitcomet.com/index.php?showtopic=533)
to change the yellow light, green.
I did the very complicated process, and it worked! but now I have noticed a my internet slowing down significantly even though my bitcomet is not on. can any1 help?

330 Jan 08, 2008 at 15:16 by aneljr009

HELP!!.. will decreasing upload rate increase download speed?

331 Jan 13, 2008 at 10:10 by Andrea F

wooohooooooooooooooo!!!!

this patch is THE patch!!! thnks ppl!

downloading at 330 – 360kbps!!
……..just follow the instructions exactly…
my are… set to 80 in the black dialogue box…then set to 80 in the bitcomet options.. holy cow now i’m doin 393kbps!!! :):):):)

332 Jan 13, 2008 at 10:12 by Andrea F

ohh yeahh…. 8.2 GB of Korda from 99:99:99 to 5.50min hrs……………

my first breath!!

ppl…it will work!

333 Jan 21, 2008 at 02:33 by smellydude

i get 1mb download speed on Utorrnt, on a 16meg line.

334 Jan 24, 2008 at 01:51 by Alex

I got up to 600kb/s before

the patch doesnt nessisarily help but its still easier

335 Jan 26, 2008 at 07:35 by jj

this patch dosent work with 1.7 versions of utorrent right?
if not then what versions it does work with?

336 Jan 26, 2008 at 07:43 by jj

my download speeds are 10mbps and upload 256kbps and i get speeds around 300kbps for utorrent

337 Jan 28, 2008 at 05:37 by Anonymous

[quote comment="148"]hey i changed the max TCP connections to 80 and its made a massive differance thanks![/quote]

yeah definitely helps. didnt download the patch but changed it to 80… went for 51kb – 358kb

338 Jan 28, 2008 at 09:14 by friky_idyotz

can you please give me other link to download the patch. I’m getting TCP network error or time out when donwloading.

339 Feb 06, 2008 at 05:11 by az

i’ve download the patch but the downloading process is still damn slow..i also change the tpc..

340 Feb 09, 2008 at 00:27 by trem

i never downloaded the patch but i am using the beta version of bitcomet. I think it has this feature already.
As for faster speeds, I havent seen any improvement.

341 Feb 16, 2008 at 08:36 by any

bitcomet used to be my fav but the new editions suck so now i use bitlord which is a bitcomet rip with slight code change but you can teel it was ripped from bitcomet in various ways

342 Feb 21, 2008 at 22:15 by Anonymous

[quote comment="713"]Hey, umm, how can u go back to the absolute default values after using the patch?[/quote]

343 Feb 22, 2008 at 08:48 by zellwwf

Damn.. i have an dsl 1mbps conection…
usually download stuff at 100+ download rate… but with any torrent application.. it falls to… 1-10 .. like the tenth of the speed.. the hundrenth of the speed.. WHY?

344 Feb 27, 2008 at 01:50 by zxevil133

f7gXI2 r u crazzy? I told u! I can’t read!

345 Feb 29, 2008 at 18:34 by pwss

@zellwwf:

What’s your ISP? It probably limits torrent connections. Check here:

http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Bad_ISPs

346 Mar 05, 2008 at 15:41 by chrismasters

hey im using utorrent v1.7 i increased max tcp connections to 80,still its nt workin gr8 with my 2mbps connections ,i ve tried soo many things its jus nt workin..is dere anything more i can doo???

347 Mar 09, 2008 at 11:28 by kakhuis

WOW sweet. this helps alot. my download speed of the DOW was 20-30 KB/s(if i was lucky) now im toping 220. its good considering only 5% of ppl are seeds

348 Mar 12, 2008 at 11:31 by *

aaaaaaaaawwesome great dirty trick man
yep good work bugers

349 Mar 12, 2008 at 22:12 by Liston

For those of you on DSL The internet is fed through taht single wire cable, and this limits the overall connections. trying to speed up your internet through added connections is dumb. I have found that by limiting connection to say 15 per torrent has gotten me speeds of up 800kps. when i increased to 20 connections, that actually went down in max speed. try setting to 10 or so connections maximum per torrent, and have onyl 5 or so open at once to be the fastest you can. Hope this helps

350 Mar 13, 2008 at 00:07 by Grantos

m8 im well happy,i downloaded evid patch, set my net max to 50 then i allowed only 15 peers per torrent and
the results were brillant.
Im now recieving a max of 420kbs on certain torrents compared to a max of 60 to 100kbs b4…thanks a bunch.:)

351 Mar 20, 2008 at 03:53 by Mike

Hey what should i set my half-open to? i’m downloading something at like 20kb/s… and i have around 5000 seeders… what can i do?

352 Mar 21, 2008 at 12:58 by LoveChild

this is B-E-A-utiful!!
it works instantly..!

thanks :D

353 Mar 24, 2008 at 17:01 by Mark Jarve

Great! I have a 20mb connection and now I am hitting speeds of 1.26 mb’s!!!

354 Mar 25, 2008 at 07:42 by skribbla

hey guys wsup i have a internet connexion speed of 100.0mps but my utorrent client downloading at speeds lie 10-18kbps why?? please help me out

355 Mar 26, 2008 at 14:54 by Wiener

for me its not like faster but more stabile down speed, but I don’t understand what that patch did to my computer…

356 Mar 26, 2008 at 17:51 by Anonymous

[quote comment="156"]Whoa, I did this and it quadrupled my download speeds. Thanks alot.[/quote]

357 Mar 27, 2008 at 08:54 by Anonymous

[quote comment="307439"]WOW sweet. this helps alot. my download speed of the DOW was 20-30 KB/s(if i was lucky) now im toping 220. its good considering only 5% of ppl are seeds[/quote]

358 Mar 30, 2008 at 16:14 by Harry Potter

Thanx Alot…..Very Useful

359 Apr 05, 2008 at 04:56 by mohit

i’ve changed the max TCP connections to 90 and its made a alot of difference!!..
Bloody!! What d Hell Is This!!
My Dwnloading speed instead of increasng,it got decreased!!
If anyone knows the other way plz. tell me yar!!

360 Apr 06, 2008 at 22:23 by moz

I haven’t unblocked any port and bit comet says it’s still blocked but I still manage to download at 150 kb/s and above so what the hell….

361 Apr 09, 2008 at 03:02 by raja

sir i have slow broadband… so tell me how to increase my utorrent speed,,, my download speed is 7 to 9…… please tell me how to get speed up atleast 20 to 30 please…….. message me to my email id….

362 Apr 09, 2008 at 03:31 by Elite Soldier

I dont recommend installing the patch or increasing your max half-open TCP it lets viruses in.

It is supposed to slow down viruses because their spreading strategy is to connect to a high amount of ip numbers, but it also cripples your torrent downloads.

Need safe secure download..

363 Apr 16, 2008 at 16:09 by jack

what happends if you change it without using the patch

364 Apr 20, 2008 at 09:29 by hi

what’s a numnet?

365 May 03, 2008 at 11:21 by atlansweiss

Speed is limited by your isp. try to make 50 global connetions and abaout 30 peer to torrent it will help you. If you use 1000 connetions it will make a traffic to slow down.

366 May 03, 2008 at 11:26 by atlansweiss

[quote comment="348341"] Let antivirus to deal with viruses, use fire wall to block worms to come in. I recommend to use a router, it stop connetion at your wall, but not at your front dorr of house. Think about it. Please see router review before buy it. I got one to trash it …

367 May 11, 2008 at 10:24 by Anonymous

worked very well thx

368 May 16, 2008 at 13:24 by zx50

For people saying that you have 54Mbps, this is most likely your modem/router that you have connected to the internet, and not the actual speed of your connection to the internet. It’s how fast the wireless signal travels from the router to your wireless card/adaptor in your laptop/computer. People always seem to get this mixed up for actual internet speed.

369 May 17, 2008 at 21:03 by Jon

Hey it worked! Finally my speed is 30 KB instead on 15 KB. Thank you!

370 May 30, 2008 at 09:26 by wen

I have Utorrent 1.7.7
Can anyone tell how to hack the max half open tcp

371 Jun 03, 2008 at 20:25 by ady

This certainly works man. i my speed doubled and it is a fact. I followed two tutorials. First is this one and second is http://www.technospot.net/blogs/ultimate-utorrent-tweaks/.

372 Jun 03, 2008 at 21:31 by John

Sum1 PLZ HELP. I followd everyhing and my download speed is always under 20kbps. I got 8mb connection and am downloadin a 2.6gb file with an average of 18 seeds.

373 Jun 08, 2008 at 13:31 by torrent-a-holic

Bitcomet is much more faster than µtorrent for me now (both latest versions)… used the same tweaks for both, downloading the same file, with a 1 mbps line.

With the tweaks applied to the latest µtorrent (1.7.7). None of the problems (as described in the previous posts) such as can’t surf firefox/IE arise.

With µtorrent my speed was around 22kB max, but with Bitcomet it was 105kB max.

The only thing that I’ve not tried is getting my rank higher than a rookie with Bitcomet. Seems that the higher your rank is.. the faster your downloads are… so to speak. Guess only time will tell. :)

374 Jun 10, 2008 at 05:44 by Ash

when i open this patch then a notification is there that “windows
cannot access the specified path or
file .You may not have the appropriate
permission to access them please help me????????????

375 Jun 13, 2008 at 00:41 by Gore

Awesome… Brilliant… Took me from about 20kbps to 150 and climbing… I love you man!

376 Jun 17, 2008 at 12:20 by xav

this worked immmiidiately for me, great!!!

377 Jun 17, 2008 at 14:41 by ppharish92

Hey,
I have a 64 bit computer. I tried to use the patch but it shows errors

378 Jun 20, 2008 at 19:26 by babu338

if u have xp sp2,dont try to use patch or tcp/ip change,it will block u from connect to network.if u interested ,do a “regedit” backup.if any problem rise,import that…

379 Jun 24, 2008 at 19:45 by Bill

REMEMBER – - – - The speed at which you download torrents is still limited by your base internet speed. If you have a 512k connection, for example, there is no way you can “tweak your settings” so that you get 700-800k speeds.

380 Jun 25, 2008 at 01:56 by agi baby

Such a difference !
Drastically saw an improvement & i’m not even a pro at this sorta thing haha

381 Jun 28, 2008 at 16:25 by kieron

ive got a 58 Mbps wireless speed. what speed downloads should i be getting?

382 Jun 30, 2008 at 11:43 by Gautam

@ kieron
man this is your router/modem speed. Not the internet speed. Google for knowing the actual speed.

u will get a speed around (connection speed/8)

383 Jul 05, 2008 at 20:33 by me fam

do you have to have the patch to raise the TCP to 80 and therefore speed things up?

384 Jul 06, 2008 at 14:53 by FAva

guys i installed the marvelous patch linked somewhere on this website around 3months ago..recently my connection speed increased to 8mbps..(i was with 4mbps), the problem is that

…i’m stuck in the 470-530’s region…can bit comet go faster please???????

thnks fava

385 Jul 06, 2008 at 15:01 by FAva

i have an 8Mb connection. using normal cables. using the step by step system/points exactly stated in the tutorial! believe me ppl.

step by step!

max halfopen tcp 80…etc etc etc

FAva

386 Jul 06, 2008 at 21:56 by Anonymous

THE BEST WAY TO SPEED UP UTORRENT IS FOR EVERY 1 TO PUT UNLIMITED SPEED FOR UPLOAD AND DOWNLOAD. with the upload speed on max they do not slow your download speed as they use a different port

387 Jul 07, 2008 at 05:28 by negro_acdc

HEY GUYS YOUR F***kING GREAT!
I’VE SOLVE ALL MY SPEED PROBLEMS WITH uTORRENT
THANK U A LOOOOOOOT

388 Jul 08, 2008 at 18:24 by ExistenceGuest

thanx it looks nice tips

389 Jul 11, 2008 at 06:20 by sKi

I changed the half open limit from 10 to 38. I went from getting speeds from maybe around 200kb/s on a good day to 700 kb/s consistentley every day. I have vista and i coudlnt change it for the longest time, but bit comet 1.02 i guess has the patch in the software and allows for vista users to do this, so you dont have to go through the whole hassle of trying to manually patch it. I guess im going to fill up my 120gb external pretty quickly. I suggest if your having this problem with vista download the new version it worked for me

390 Jul 14, 2008 at 11:18 by kit

this is a virus, my avg detected as a virus. people dont download it!!!

391 Jul 15, 2008 at 17:13 by kingdom hearts fan

my msn and all gets of when i run bitcomet too but then i run utorrent for 5 min’s and my net gets back on ;)

392 Jul 17, 2008 at 10:53 by jefke

WOW man this really increased my download first it was always 80Kb/s and now almost 300Kb/s!!!

Thanks!!!!

393 Jul 18, 2008 at 19:53 by oli

I increased the half open tcp connections to 80 and no difference, any tips?

394 Jul 19, 2008 at 02:19 by ER

tnx!! diz worked on mine………!!

395 Jul 19, 2008 at 06:26 by arvin

can anyone help me ? i use to download at 200kbps using bitcomet although im on a 1mb line but nowdays i can only download at 20kbps max. ive enev done the patchiing and everything

396 Jul 20, 2008 at 02:53 by Idunno

Woah… This made my speed stay in the 150kbps to the 300kbps thats unbelevieable! xD

397 Jul 22, 2008 at 08:01 by rx

my msn and other get off when i run bitcomet…what should i do..help pls..

398 Jul 27, 2008 at 12:48 by myox

the only difference i see is from 50 min estimated time to 1 hour 10 min….

399 Nov 10, 2008 at 15:56 by Rando

hi ernesto can u help me download much faster becouse i don’t understand the steps that you have shown to your page.pls give me a response…

400 Dec 28, 2008 at 11:01 by Joe

Who knows a good port?

401 Dec 31, 2008 at 02:32 by noob

Can I apply this to WinXP SP3? TIA

402 Jan 01, 2009 at 12:06 by nayan

yes you can. I just followed through with the tip, and it's a big help. As soon as i did it my downloading time went from 400kb to 700kb for the new windows software

403 Jan 20, 2009 at 18:44 by Marry

does this patch works on Win Server 2003?

404 Jan 27, 2009 at 17:18 by Kai

I still think dat if your .net is shtty den your speed won't get any better, but if da tips help den it must be dat some former uTorrent's config dat didn't real fit wiff yar pc, so da speed would had been limited…da rest still depends on seeders tho….

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