http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/06/0 ... -required/
Utterly terrific news, I'm glad that MS came to their sense. I no longer have to perpetually patch my tcpip.sys, yay.
In case you didn't know, MS had limited the max number of half-open TCP connections to 10 since XP SP1. This created a significant bottleneck for P2P downloads.
Half-open connections limit removed in Vista SP2 + Win7
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Wicked. That site is currently down. Here's another link, including the link to the Vista SP2 Change Log:
http://www.technutopia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6841
I wonder why MS changed it. It's an unusual move. It was too much of a hassle in Vista to change, so I never bothered.
There is also this:
Instead, Microsoft adds a registry key that allows user or administrator to enable (turn on) or disable (turn off) the half-open TCP connections limit in Windows Vista with Service Pack 2 and in Windows Server 2008 with Service Pack 2.
http://www.technutopia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6841
I wonder why MS changed it. It's an unusual move. It was too much of a hassle in Vista to change, so I never bothered.
There is also this:
Instead, Microsoft adds a registry key that allows user or administrator to enable (turn on) or disable (turn off) the half-open TCP connections limit in Windows Vista with Service Pack 2 and in Windows Server 2008 with Service Pack 2.