Speed up Bitcomet and uTorrent
Written by Ernesto on December 20, 2005In 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
1. Hack the max half-open TCP connections
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
Bitcomet: Options > Preferences > Connection > max half-open TCP
Now you’re ready to go…
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).
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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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
after installing the patch, i’m having problems using msn and other internet stuff when bitcomet is on. How do I turn this off?
Just run it again and change back to 10.
hey i changed the max TCP connections to 80 and its made a massive differance thanks!
Whoa, I did this and it quadrupled my download speeds. Thanks alot.
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
[insert a lot of trashtalk here]
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
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.
Jimmy: You need admin rights to install the patch.
Um yes. I am the admin of the computer.
thanks alt
i’ll try that now
wow you can actually see the down speed triple-quadruple as these two steps are done!
Whenever i try to do this, this error pops up. Can someone help me, please?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v194/ShaolinMilk/problem.jpg
I tried the patch and increased the uTorrent to 80. So far, no difference.
Thanks so much, this patch and guide made a huge difference. Really appreciate it. Lee
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.
I have a connection 60 Kb and i download with 7kb(torent) I have make all tutorials :((
how is this done in azureus?
Doesn’t seem to be doing much for me as is.
Mine’s automatically 500 is that good or bad?
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
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
Hyper, I think Foff meant his TCP/IP
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?
does the patch work for win 98 SE? if not waht can i do ?
thanx a lot
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
why is my bittorrent not opening, thats the best site of all of them, did it shut down?
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.
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…
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
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 ?
By the way my country is Romania. It is in situated in Est Europe. Is the location a problem ?
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
will this make a difference if im already dwnloading at around 500kbp/s anyway??
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?
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.
swt
not only increase the max-half open TCP can increase..u also need to close the firewall and other stuff
dude,
worked awesome! thanks!
Hey,
I got a 54mbps internet, but only get a download speed below 20kbps. Any Ideas??
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…!
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?
good!
@ OpenSource
This patch just tweaks the tcpip.sys file and is absolutely NOT a virus
How do i change use the patch? I keep getting winrar opening up my directory!!! i have no idea what to do!
the patch is rarred. use winrar to extract it somewhere, then open the extracted folder and run the patch
i see no differences in my downloads
can someone help? i did everything but i am not getting anyware
anyone?
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!
@mark
It depends on the torrent. Does it have a lot of seeds and peers?
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 ??
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?
ALSO just check the EVENT LOG and i see ALOT of those you mentioned there, does this mean its back to 10?.
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.
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!!!
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
every time i try to dwnld something it says cant read torrent discouraging.
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?
Bit Comet Torrent
sweet mother…it’s alive!!! thanks so much.
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?
Hey, umm, how can u go back to the absolute default values after using the patch?
you can go back by running the patch again and enter 10 (the default value)
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?.
-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?
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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…
this is a bowl of shit! it slowed my torrents down!
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
I dont think my download rate could get any worse. (5-11kbps) Now at 1kbps after downloading the patch. Whats going on?
hy! I opened the Event Viewer and I have 28 Warning’s 4226. What should I do??
Thanx!
OMG, 100 on a lowseeded torrent, my max halfopen tcp/ip connections is 512, that what the script told me! :D
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
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
CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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.
I’ve done it and rebooted and there’s bugger all difference. Seems to work wonders for some people yet does nothing for others.
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.
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
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!!!!!!!!!!!
my e-maiol:
fire_electricity@msn.com
some ine e-mail me @
fire_electricity@msn.com
to fix my problem, posted above- jesse
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
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?
Hi, please post your speed related problems here..
http://www.btlist.com/categories.php
thanks
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
would like to try
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/
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
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
Does anyone know if there is a patch available for Windows Server 2003?
wicked, installed it, i’m using bitlord and straight away my speed increased…
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.
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
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
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
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
disable NOD32 :)
when i open the patch from the other site…its empty……what should i do
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!?!
I cant find administerative tools in my control panel?
Thanks guys, from average 45kb to 280kb.. woooo hooooo
This rules!! man ive never had this fast dl speeds
forgot to thank you thanx alot!!!
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
This actully all worked out great. Much appreciated
thanks a lot for this..
i was downloading with 200 and now im downloading with 320kB/s
thanks this is amazing my torrent went from total download time of 33hours to 6.5 hours
where to i go to figure out how to forward my ports?
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
looooooooooooove
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?
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
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.
Works great. 10x a million times :thumbsup:
Hi,
Thanks its great, i use your patch,
thanks alot
It sure worked for me, I almost quadrupled the download speed on good torrents.
Thanks
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
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.
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.
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.
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
This fucking patch is some kind of virus or trojan.. And all that crap can be dome by regedit…no need patchs..
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 …
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.
smart i a stupit handcape
i dont see those options
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!!!
hey joe, i saw your screenshot and i just like to know how do u customise that windows skin?
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
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.
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
oh sorry missed this out then it said please rename these files manually the patcher will now abort thans
it really works thanx
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.
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
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!!
You guys do know that mBITS and mBytes are NOT the same ,right? 1byte=8bits
please help me, i see that many of you have high rates and i dont want to miss out. :(
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
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.
This really kicks ass…I went from 20 kb/s to around a 100 kb/s
Thanx a lot dude
i recently upgraded to vista beta and then realised that the patch wont work on this operating system any advice?
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
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
this is ace i went from 40kbps to 600 WOW i can get a film in an hour how ace is that
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?
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.
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i am using windows me & i am using bitcomet but my download rates are really slow.please,someone help
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 :-)
Just kept the downloads them same speed for me…
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 :)
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! =]
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!!!
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.
how do i check my upload speed?
another thing, windows keeps on changing my max TCP connections. how do i stop that
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?
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.
I’ve change it just like you said and it works great !!! Thanx!
the patch is infected with a trojan
[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%
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!
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!
No change.
hey, i just got a news that BT Engine can really accelerate torrent downloads. Izit true?
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.
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…
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
please tell us how to do this in azureus, i’m stuck with speeds of 8KB/s
wen i updated to bitcomet 0.73, my download seems to have slowed down
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.
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.
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
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
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?
Anyone know if this works on Windows XP X64, the 64 bit version of Win XP?
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;)
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
can this thing works in malaysia connection? cos im havin the same prob and after tryin it,it doesnt affect much
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.
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THANKS.
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???
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 :/
this work fine for me. i was getting 4kb amd now am getting
26kb+ so thanks guys.
How do people get their download rate to 500kbs per sec??Thats amazing my rate is around 20-30 only…
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)
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.
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.
hmm .. the speed didn’t change. thank you anyway
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
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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.
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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
how do you decrease your uploading rate on utorrent
decreasing your upload speed will decrease your download speed, it’s in the options, have you looked? i wouldn’t bother.
NIKOLAS BEST
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!!
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.
MESSAGE: http://img62.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bitcometnu3.png
[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?
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
[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?
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
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.
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!!!!
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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
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?
you are very very good!!!!
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.
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.
Good job. Pretty Big Improvement. So what are the security issues of having 80 concurrent TCP connections?