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Originally Posted by G UK
150 Connections was the original and it wouldn't stay connected for anymore than a minute or two
20 Connections fell over after a while.
18 is running OK at the moment although I am still STM'd so cant test with full 10Mb yet.
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While it could simply be a problem with your old modem, there's also a known complication within XP.
From a great
article on TorrentFreak:
"If you’re on XP sp2, your TCP connections are limited to a maximum of 10. This seriously hurts your downloading speed because it wont let you connect to a high amount of ip numbers. It is supposed to slow down viruses because their spreading strategy is to connect to a high amount of ip numbers, but it also cripples your torrent downloads.
A nice way to fix this is to download this patch, it allows you to set the maximum allowed connections to any number you want. Any number between 50 and 100 is ok (more is NOT always better)."
(Or you could just google for "half-open TCP connection" for further information.)
That article has several other tips on improving your bittorrent performance that are well worth a look.
hth