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Old August 15th, 2004
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Default New Windows Service Pack 2 ??

Since installing Windows Service Pack 2, my connection quality has dropped severly. Maybe just a coinencedence? I turned off the firewall in windows and run no other.

Anyone else having this trouble?Thanks in advance for any constructive imput.
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ah.. Windows xp... M$ sucks. XP SP2 limits the concurrent connections to 10 on one port (on gnutella it is by default 6346) over a second. More connections attemps are blocked. SP2 sucks for P2P programs. There are four solutions:

1)download LW 4.1 beta @ http://www.limewire.com/english/content/beta.shtml which attemps less simultaneous connections.

2) search on the web for the patch that let more simultaneous connections (patch not from M$)
http://www.lvllord.de/4226fix/4226fix.htm isn't working now but this site contained the patch.

3) uninstall SP2

4) switch to Linux or Mac os x

I'm so happy to be a mac user!

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Thanks will work on those.. actually I am starting to get some good connections just have to wait liek a minute now
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Yeah, XP SP2 is allowing only 10 simultaneous outgoing connection attempts (AFAIK it has nothing to do with the port) which is not quite enough for most p2p apps. - Installing the suggested patch helps though.
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50 simultaneous connection attempts (!= 50 simultaneous connections, XP SP2 still supports up to 1024 simultaneous connections IIRC) is more than you will ever reach with LimeWire - well, - theoretically you could reach more but during normal operation you will seldom have more than 20 half-open TCP connections at a time
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My bittorrent implementation does well below 3 simultaneous connection attempts per torrent.
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Question Number of Connections?

Speaking of Number of simultaneous connections here.......

I run Win2000. What is the way I can see how many my system is allowing? And how can I set that number higher?

As an ultrapeer, I usually only get 30 peers and 30 leafs. But I have tons more bandwidth available for additional connections. (CPU takes a hit though to manage more connections it seems.)

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You'll have to forgive me because I'm not particularly computer savy.

If I'm understanding you properly:

I can install the XP Service Pack 2 and it won't affect my Limewire as long as I install this patch.

Correct?

Do I also have to disable the XP Service Pack 2's built-in firewall?
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@Bored...
You should at least configure your firewall to open port 6346 (or whatever port you are using for LimeWire) for incoming TCP and UDP traffic.

@Cougar
I don't think the number of leafs per ultrapeer will be increased. It's not so much the traffic that you couldn't handle, ultrapeers handling too many leafs cause problems with intra-ultrapeer query-routing: other ultrapeers will send you too many queries that do not match any of the files you or your leafs are sharing, increasing traffic for all ultrapeers connected to you.
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I've added the ports to the built-in firewall, I found some instructions elsewhere on the site. I would have deleted my previous post but I'm not sure how to do it. ^.^
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