Following the installation guide to Windows Seven, I assume you would have downloaded and installed the new Operating System from Microsoft. Now that you are armed with all the new glitzy desktop and the under hood increased performance options which were not present in Windows Vista, Sky is the limit and the pride on your faces can lighten up California for a second or two, of course.
You would have patched your Windows Seven desktop from displaying the minor glitch, which makes desktop.ini to make its presence felt. And you are all set to use it on a regular basis and are thoroughly enjoying the nifty features and well managed resource bundle which does not clog your CPU and does not bring your processor to its knees. But, is that all we want? Why is there a backlash on our favorite program which downloads movies and music from all those torrent sites?
Why, why? Because, the file which holds the settings to control your network connections is active. This feature was introduced by Microsoft in Windows XP(SP 2) to reduce the number of open connections concurrently. This enabled the OSs to contain the malicious spread of viruses and worms and other malicious programs. But, bad for P2P file sharing utilities too. As the open connections are used up like anything, it becomes hard to load web pages or download any other information when a P2P file sharing utility is working.
In order to prevent this, Half-Open has created a tool, Half-Open Limit Fix, which patches your Windows Seven installation to increase the limit of these half-open connections, there by increasing the speed and reducing the traffic diversions(?).
P2P (peer-to-peer) programs (µTorrent, BitComet, eMule, P2P TV etc.) are generally the most affected programs. As they use up all 10 of the half-open connections, other Internet activity, especially the loading of web pages, can be extremely slow. The delay before the beginning of opening can make some tens seconds. This happens regardless of the speed of your Internet connection.
All you need to do is, download and execute this fix. This would present you an option to provide the number of open connections, which gets applied to the file, tcpip.sys. Restart the system or else choose an alternate method to prevent the time consuming restarting.
Do share with us if you have any similar kind of tips or tricks which can increase the speed of network file sharing.
why 2 Seven’s in the title?
is this tool only for Windows 7 or can be used for other OS as well?
@Raju: Haha! No this tool supports XP and as well as Seven. It’s just to reach to the wider audience when they search for “Windows 7″ too. SEO.
I use Half open TCP patch for my windows XP which I use to download torrents. It’s very useful tool.
As already mentioned by Raju, this will work for XP and vista both
Has anyone actually tested this as more half open connections does not mean an increased speed.
I have used this previously in an XP install and yes it does work. It won't necessarily increase your download speed as that is determined by your ISP, however it will allow more connections into Windows concurrently.