Speed Up Your Upload/Download Speed!

landbeforetimelover · **on:** December 08, 2007, 05:24:14 PM

I just found out about this wonderful patch that patches your Tcpip.sys file to allow more connections. Back with windows xp SP1 (which hardly no one uses anymore), they allowed 50 connections and therefore the internet was blazing, however because of software piracy (torrent downloading mostly), microsoft has reduced the number of connections to 10, significantly slowing down your computer when running third party download applications (including torrent clients) and when just browsing the internet. The best part of it is the fact that it'll allow more connections on a single computer. This is a MUST HAVE for people with wireless networks or people with more than one computer in the house connected to the internet. My browsing speed has gotten so fast, the instant I click on anything, the last page is gone, no matter how large the page I'm viewing. I used to be able to do this only when I had one computer on the network, but now after installing it on every computer in my network, the internet is much faster.

Now, this may not work for everybody. In some cases, it has slowed down the internet, but if that happens, simply run the patch again and type in 10 and press enter. It's that simple!

English:
http://www.lvllord.de/download.php?url=en/...atch223d-en.zip

German:
http://www.lvllord.de/download.php?url=de/...atch223d-de.zip

Oh, and ya have to restart your computer after applying the patch. You'll get some message about vital windows files being replaced by "unrecognized versions", just click cancel and everything will be fine.

Manny Cav · **Reply #1 on:** December 09, 2007, 12:15:29 AM

Is this patch "necessary" on Windows XP SP2? Is it safe? Will it get me in legal trouble?

Petrie. · **Reply #2 on:** December 09, 2007, 10:58:12 AM

Remember the old saying about how some things sound too good to be true? I don't need a page to load the instant I click on it so this isn't something I'm willing to try.

DarkHououmon · **Reply #3 on:** December 09, 2007, 01:04:40 PM

I'm not sure if I want to risk it.

Manny Cav · **Reply #4 on:** December 10, 2007, 11:25:37 AM

The homepage is http://www.lvllord.de/. Check "Legal notice" for the author information. But, yeah, I still haven't ran this. I haven't gotten any satisfactory answers.

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #5 on:** December 10, 2007, 03:06:01 PM

Well, let me put it this way: Microsoft reduced the maximum number of connections for a reason...to reduce software piracy. My guess is that they don't want you increasing the number of connections to increase your torrent downloading speed, but I don't want it for that.

: Who cares if downloading something off a torrent takes a while. But yeah, it does increase the download rate significatly. After installing the patch, I was able to get 300kps on a download I was getting 12kps on before in utorrent. Now, I hardly ever get under 50kps when downloading torrents. But still, this is GREAT if you have a wireless network. Microsoft shouldn't have reduced the maximum number of connections. It's just another futile attempt to stop software piracy that didn't work and now it's slowing down everyones internet.

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I'm not sure if I want to risk it.

There's no risk. When you first run it, it asks you if you want to change your maximum number of connections to 50. If you say yes, it does it and then makes you restart. If you don't like the results, just run the patch again and it'll ask you if you want to change it back to 10. If you say yes, it'll delete everything it did and ask you to restart.

Oh, and you have to restart because it's modifying a system file and it won't take effect until you restart windows. And don't worry. It just makes a copy of the system file and modifies that, while backing up the real system file in case something goes wrong. I've installed it on 104 computers so far, and it works great! I can connect so many computers to my wireless network without it slowing down!

Manny Cav · **Reply #6 on:** December 10, 2007, 07:11:25 PM

This is what I got from the program.

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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 - Recognized Windows-directory: C:\WINDOWS - 'Windows XP SP2 or newer' TCPIP.SYS detected ... - Build of TCPIP.SYS : 5.1.2600.2892 (I386) - Build of safety copy: - (will be overwritten due to changed version) Found limit position : 0x4F5A2 Current maximum concurrent half-open connections: 1000 If you continue, please press 'Abort' and 'Yes' on the popup from Windows File Protection. Because we change system files, Windows tries to restore the original one. So it's normal. Do you really want to change the limit to 10? (Y=Yes / N=No / C=Change limit)

Am I to believe that this will reduce my possible connections from 1,000 to 10?

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #7 on:** December 10, 2007, 07:37:26 PM

WOAH! Your connections should be 10, and then it should ask you if you want to change it to 50. I dunno what's wrong there. It certainly shouldn't be that high. You should change it to 50. 1,000 is Waaaaaaaaaaay too high!

Seriously, you may think the more connections the better, but that's just not true. Unless you changed the file yourself, it's gotta be some sort of bug or virus that changed your amount of connections so it could get easier access. I wouldn't put it any higher than 50 if I were you.

Manny Cav · **Reply #8 on:** December 10, 2007, 07:59:49 PM

I never changed it to 1,000. I changed it from 1,000, but I have noticed no improvements. Why should I have reduced it, again?

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #9 on:** December 10, 2007, 08:04:41 PM

Because, it was at 10 by default when you got the computer. I can only assume if you didn't change it that some sort of malicious software did. That software probably wanted to make sure that there would always be enough connections open to allow the hacker or other malicious software to enter your computer. No change huh? Not surprising, but have you restarted the computer?

Manny Cav · **Reply #10 on:** December 10, 2007, 08:08:34 PM

I did restart. However, I am not sure about the whole "When I got it" business. How do I know that it wasn't like that from the start, or that it wasn't some sort of glitch? Is there a way to unapply the patch and completely undo everything it did?

Petrie. · **Reply #11 on:** December 10, 2007, 09:22:52 PM

Quote from: Manny Cav,Dec 10 2007 on 07:08 PM

I did restart. However, I am not sure about the whole "When I got it" business. How do I know that it wasn't like that from the start, or that it wasn't some sort of glitch? Is there a way to unapply the patch and completely undo everything it did?

System restore would be a good start. Go back a couple of days to a system checkpoint and it'll be like you never installed it.

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #12 on:** December 10, 2007, 10:55:03 PM

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Is there a way to unapply the patch and completely undo everything it did?

Yes of course. Just find the file TCPIP copy.SYS, delete the file TCPIP.SYS, and rename TCPIP copy.SYS to TCPIP.SYS. Or, you may have the uninstall option at your command prompt:

Manny Cav · **Reply #13 on:** December 11, 2007, 12:37:09 AM

It took some searching to discover that the copy of the original was actually named "TCPIP.SYS.ORIGINAL" and the old one that was modified was "TCPIP.SYS" in the C:WINDOWS\system32\drivers directory. I did the procedure to delete TCPIP.SYS and remove the ".ORIGINAL" from the copy.