WinXP SP2 limited no. of outgoing connections workaround

[Rommie2006]

I've read that WinXP SP2 severely limits yr no. of outgoing connections (to 10 I think).
Is there any workaround to this issue?

 

[spherrod]

I think this is what you need - you should probably search the forums for things like this in future as it gets asked pretty often

http://www.lvllord.de/

 

[MrChad]

You've read wrong. SP2 limits simultaneous outbound TCP connection attempts per second. Unless you try to connect to 10 invalid IP addresses in the same second, you will never hit this issue. The only legitimate software that could be impacted by this queue is a port scanner. Everything else should work exactly as it did in XP SP1.

 

[Alex]

just get XP Antispy!

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: MrChad
You've read wrong. SP2 limits simultaneous outbound TCP connection attempts per second. Unless you try to connect to 10 invalid IP addresses in the same second, you will never hit this issue. The only legitimate software that could be impacted by this queue is a port scanner. Everything else should work exactly as it did in XP SP1.

Bingo

 

[piasabird]

I have sometimes got stupid messages from Outlook Express saying too many connections and it would just die. However, I never got messages from other messaging and newsgroup programs.

 

[jjyiz28]

http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=1497

 

[spyordie007]

Originally posted by: jjyiz28
http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=1497

This is all FUD. See MrChad's post above.

XP SP2 does not limit your connections. What it impliments is a un-established connection queue and this simply will not affect 99.99% of legitimate traffic.