This tip is designed for increased BROADBAND speed in Windows XP while using standard Network Interface cards (NIC) that are connected to ADSL modems, or when using any directly-connected USB ADSL modem.

To speed up the Internet connection speed we need to configure a special buffer in the computer's memory in order to enable it to better deal with interrupts made from the NIC or the USB modem.

This tip is only recommended if you have 256MB RAM or higher.

Step #1 - Identify the IRQ used by the NIC/USB modem

Follow these steps:

1. Open the System Information tool by running MSINFO32.EXE from the Run command.

2. Expand System Summary > Hardware Resources > IRQs.

3. Look for the listing made for your NIC (in my case - a Intel(R) PRO/100+ Management Adapter). Note the IRQ next to the specified line (in my case - IRQ21).

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Note: You might also want to read the Increase Broadband Connection Speed in Windows XP/2003 tip for more info.

QoS Packet Scheduler is a method of network bandwidth management that can monitor the importance of data packets and depending upon the priority of the packet, give it higher or lower priority or bandwidth levels. It's not very useful unless you're using apps which are QoS-aware or running a server, so you can gain some network overhead back by turning it off.

Note: This following tip will not work on XP Home Edition.

1. Make sure you're logged on as actually "Administrator". Do not log on with any account that just has administrator privileges.

2. Start > Run > type gpedit.msc (not available in home version).

3. Expand the Local Computer Policy branch.

4. Expand the Administrative Templates......

Now here's a marriage of convenient ideas - the Microsoft Surface and Nintendo Wii Balance Board have merged into this pressure-sensitive surface computing. In the video above, you will see a simple application that allows users to create bubbles of different sizes, where one can roll them around the table simply by pressing on the edges of Surface. With the inclusion of pressure sensitivity, you will be able to make the Surface experience all the more enjoyable, further augmenting an already advanced platform. I wonder what are the kinds of games that one can make out of this combo.

Clients supporting peer exchange

Each of these clients implement an incompatible version of peer exchange:

• Azureus and clients based on it (The Azureus PEX is only compatible with the Transmission client. PEX with other clients has been implemented from Azureus 3.0.4.3 onwards)
• BitComet
• Bitflu
• BitTorrent
• Deluge
• FlashGet
• KTorrent has implemented full......

Protocol encryption (PE), Message stream encryption (MSE), or Protocol header encrypt (PHE) are related features of some peer-to-peer file-sharing clients, including BitTorrent clients. They attempt to make traffic harder to identify by third parties including internet service providers (ISPs).

MSE/PE is implemented in Azureus, BitComet, BitTornado, Deluge, Halite Client, KTorrent, Mainline, µTorrent, Transmission (v0.90) and rTorrent. PHE was implemented in old versions of BitComet. Similar protocol obfuscation is supported in up-to-date versions of some other (non-BitTorrent) systems including eMule.

Purpose

Peer-to-peer file-sharing traffic makes up more than a third of total internet traffic. Some ISPs deal with this traffic by increasing their capacity whilst others use specialised systems to throttle (i.e. slow down) BitTorrent traffic. Obfuscation and encryption make traffic harder to detect and therefore harder to throttle. These systems......

The UPnP architecture allows peer-to-peer networking of PCs, networked appliances, and wireless devices. It is a distributed, open architecture based on established standards such as TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP and XML.

The UPnP architecture supports zero-configuration networking. A UPnP compatible device from any vendor can dynamically join a network, obtain an IP address, announce its name, convey its capabilities upon request, and learn about the presence and capabilities of other devices. DHCP and DNS servers are optional and are only used if they are available on the network. Devices can leave the network automatically without leaving any unwanted state information behind.

Other UPnP features include:

Media and device independence

UPnP technology can run on many media that support IP including Ethernet, FireWire, IR (IrDA), power lines (PLC) and RF (Bluetooth, Wi-Fi). No special device driver support is necessary; common protocols are used instead.......

What it is
   Bittorrent is a cooperative distribution of content where each individual who is downloading (and those who have downloaded) the content use their upload capacity to give the content to others.

Traditional distribution of content relied upon a single server providing the content.  However, this creates a vicious circle where the distributor is punished as the content becomes more popular.  The more people that download the content, the higher the bandwidth cost to the distributor.  If the content becomes very popular and the server is flooded with requests for download, then the server crashes and no one receives the content.  Thus, only those with special equipment and lots of money were able to adequately distribute content.

Bittorrent allows individuals, and small enterprises, to distribute their content as effectively as traditional distribution, but at a small cost.  In bittorrent the popularity of......

   The features that I considered were first the basic ones that every user would want, Encryption (helps with ISPs that interfere......

Download patcher: EvID4226Patch223d-en.zip

What's this all about?
After almost everybody knows the <<EventID 4226: TCP/IP has reached the security limit imposed on the number of concurrent TCP connect attempts>>, I used a day to create for educational purpose a fix for this argumentative feature.

Unfortunately there exists no REG-key which could easily be set (would be so nice and easy, right? *smile*). The file TCPIP.SYS in the directory C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS and C:\WINDOWS\SERVICEPACKFILES\I386 has to be changed (system dependend eventually in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DLLCACHE, too).

1. Hack the max TCP connections on Windows XP

If you are currently using on Windows XP SP2, your Windows TCP connections are limited to a maximum of 10. I highly recommend your modify Windows TCP/IP.sys with LvlLord Patcher to get better performance bittorrent download speed. If not modifying Windows TCP/IP.sys, It will seriously hurts your bitcomet download speed because it wont let you connect to a high amount of ip numbers.

2. BitComet Connection Preferences

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BitComet EZ Booster

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Description:
   Bitcomet-Ez-Booster is just an extremely strong add-on with the most up-to-the-minute approach to enhancing the speed of Bitcomet file-sharing program. Your movies, music, books and other files will be pouring in like crazy! Even the accuracy of your search will be improved and at any time you will be able to see all the details concerning your downloading process. Bitcomet -EZ-Booster is FREE and 100% CLEAN!......

   In order to apply these tips you need to know your maximum up- and download speed. You can test your bandwidth over here (stop all download activity while testing). Also make sure that you applied the tips provided in our previous posts.
   Note that there’s a huge difference between kb/s (kilobits/second) and kB/s (kilobytes/second). To be precise, kB/s = kb/s divided by 8. In this tutorial we use kB/s (like most torrent clients do). This means that you
might need to calculate your max speed in kB/s yourself if the speedtest only gives you the results in kb\s (so divide by 8 then).

   Settings 1-4 can be found in the options, settings or preference tab of most torrent clients.

1. Maximum upload speed

   Probably the most important setting there is. Your onnection is (sort of) like a pipeline, if you use you aximum upload speed......

      Distributed hash tables (DHTs) are a class of decentralized distributed systems that provide a lookup service similar to a hash table: (name, value) pairs are stored in the DHT, and any participating node can efficiently retrieve the value associated with a given name. Responsibility for maintaining the mapping from names to values is distributed among the nodes, in such a way that a change in the set of participants causes a minimal amount of disruption. This allows DHTs to scale to extremely large numbers of nodes and to handle continual node arrivals, departures, and failures.

      DHTs form an infrastructure that can be used to build more complex services, such as distributed file systems, peer-to-peer file sharing and content distribution systems, cooperative web caching, multicast, anycast, domain name services, and instant messaging. Notable distributed networks that use DHTs include......

This is a small metadata file. Metadata here means that the file contains information about the data you want to download, not the data itself.
Your BitTorrent client needs the .torrent file to connect to the tracker (see below) and download the actual data you're interested in.

What are seeds?

A seed is a client that has a complete copy of the data of a certain torrent. Once your BitTorrent client finishes downloading, it will remain open until you click the Finish button (or otherwise close it). This is known as being a seed or seeding.

What are leechers?

A leecher is a client that is currently downloading the data of a torrent. A leecher does not have the complete file, otherwise it would be called a seed.

What is a tracker?

A BitTorrent tracker is a service on the internet that assists in the communication between BitTorrent clients. When you open a torrent file, your machine contacts the tracker and asks for a list of seeds......

   This allowed users to avoid download and upload ratio restrictions, which are common on private trackers. Some private trackers responded to this by blacklisting version 0.60. 

BitComet developer RnySmile reverted the client back to version 0.59 in response to the blacklisting.

The DHT exploit was fixed in version 0.61.