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Well this is an issue i have been fighting with for the last few days, whereby if i was downloading from newsgroups or running a single torrent, the inet would drop out.
At first i suspected my router, but after being able to connect to it from my laptop and mac i decided that it wasnt the router. So i started to google and have found im not the only one having issues like this under windows 7, under vista i had no issues like this (surprising huh? )
Some suggested uninstalling the whql drivers from nvidia and using the windows ones (older nvidia whaq), this didn't work.
After yet more googling where they claimed the drivers were unstable i come across a site saying about how the Half-Open TCP Connections Limit in Windows has been removed since xp sp3 Vista sp2 and windows 7.
They gave a key to look for to either enable or disable this limit, i looked, it wasnt on my machine, so they claim the limit is already disable.
I decided to readd the key, since then i have had no issue, i downloaded 20GB from the newsgroup without any issues, and have been d/l multiple torrents for the last 4 hours with no issues.
So this is either a driver issue (which i am leaning towards) or a windows issue.
Should you be getting the same issue as me - the link below might help you out, you don't have to restart your machine after you enter the new reg entry, but you can if you like.
(At this moment i have 350+ connections and im still here, last night if i hit more than 100 it would die on me)
Possible fix
At first i suspected my router, but after being able to connect to it from my laptop and mac i decided that it wasnt the router. So i started to google and have found im not the only one having issues like this under windows 7, under vista i had no issues like this (surprising huh? )
Some suggested uninstalling the whql drivers from nvidia and using the windows ones (older nvidia whaq), this didn't work.
After yet more googling where they claimed the drivers were unstable i come across a site saying about how the Half-Open TCP Connections Limit in Windows has been removed since xp sp3 Vista sp2 and windows 7.
They gave a key to look for to either enable or disable this limit, i looked, it wasnt on my machine, so they claim the limit is already disable.
I decided to readd the key, since then i have had no issue, i downloaded 20GB from the newsgroup without any issues, and have been d/l multiple torrents for the last 4 hours with no issues.
So this is either a driver issue (which i am leaning towards) or a windows issue.
Should you be getting the same issue as me - the link below might help you out, you don't have to restart your machine after you enter the new reg entry, but you can if you like.
(At this moment i have 350+ connections and im still here, last night if i hit more than 100 it would die on me)
Possible fix