Need some Win XP Network Connections tweaking help...

[GeoffS]

I've run into this problem before with Win2K Pro and IIS and found a way to bump the number of concurrent connections to 40 form 10.

I am changing the way I'm running FaD on my herd at work and have them connecting to my desktop, which is acting as a server. However, when the 6th machine tries to connect, it seems I have reached a maximum number of concurrent connections (I'm assuming 2 connections per TCP/IP user). I'm running a copy of XP Home on my work machine and have not configure IIS or any other webserver on the machine.

Thanks!
Geoff

 

[MechEng]

Is this what you're looking for?:

Start regedt32 and navigate to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings registry subkey.
Select New, DWORD Value from the Edit menu, and create two new DWORD values: MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server, with a value of 0000000a (or whichever value you want); and MaxConnectionsPerServer, with a value of 0000000a (or whichever value you want).
After you restart IE, you can simultaneously download as many files as you specified in the registry.

 

[MDE]

Maybe XP Pro or set up a Windows 2000 system as the server and run all of your machines through that.

 

[amdxborg]

This might be something different, but still worth a look.

SP2 adds a limit on the number of connections which are in the process of being opened.
It is _not_ a limit on the number of simultaneous open connections.
The TcpNumConnections registry entry does not affect the limit on half open connections
The patch from http://www.lvllord.de/ is currently the only know way to remove this limit. Got it here

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