1. There is a work around this and can be changed. The links can be found on this blog post. http://www.geekswithblogs.net/tpatel/archive/2004/07/26/8849.aspx

Posted at 4:29AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Tejas Patel

2. After i installed sp2 (fresh xp pro install) bitcomet connected but after a few minutes it would start giving tracker errors, like tracker decoding failed. Speed up/down was fine. But it couldnt keep connected to the seeds, which i assume means that it was too many tcpip connections and they were blocked. I had thought it was a sp2 firewall problem untill i saw the tcpip problem on a site, there is a fix, but i have already uninstalled sp2. Azareus seemed to work fine (no errors), although, it qeued most of the uploads. So if you like bitcomet you might have a problem after installing sp2.

Posted at 4:29AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Storm

3. once i installed SP2, my downloads went from an average of 25kb/s to a miniscual 1kbps... does anyone know how to fix this problem?

Posted at 4:29AM on Dec 19th 2005 by martin

4. Azureus works ok for me, but it takes a very long time to connect properly to everything. After a while, this starts affecting my other programs. Suddenly, I can't connect to a website properly (google takes many tries), going into GameSpy takes forever and it dosn't recognise me properly.

If your just using a P2P program it won't be too bad, many can be tweaked to get around this to a degree. But when your using that and programs which will time out on you, it just becomes a mess. This is only while trying to download, let's say 10-15 torrents at once, but I've got a fast connection so this shouldn't be a problem.

What's more annoying is, SP2 is providing me with better security yet MS have for some reason decided to force this upon us without an easy software solution. I am certainly not going to replace my tcpip.sys with a 3rd party download unless it's been rigorously checked.

Hopefully an easy and safe work around will become available.

Posted at 4:29AM on Dec 19th 2005 by lcandy

5. It's auctally a limit of 10 outgoing UNCONNECTED TCP Connections.
NOT connected connections.
With BT and other P2P it'll try to open a bunch of connections to different IP's all at once, so XP will queue all the other connections until the TCP sessions are auctally connected.

The site that had the patcher is down, but I have a copy of the patcher and the hex addresses at..
http://www.kyhwana.org/4226fix-en-manual.html and http://www.kyhwana.org/xpsp2tcpipfix.exe (I make no warrenty or whatever about the binary. I've scanned it with AVG and it does what it's supposed to)
Both were done by LvlLord

Posted at 4:29AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Daniel Richards

6. Hi there!
The site is still alive! As I found out, there must be a DNS-Server problem within USA so that the DNS cannot be resolved. I made a mirror on http://mitglied.lycos.de/lvllord/download-mirror.htm

Cheers!
LvlLord

Posted at 4:29AM on Dec 19th 2005 by LvlLord

7. Yes, I noticed a slowing down of my computer after installing SP2.

:(

Posted at 4:29AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Debra

8. Ahh, excellent LvlLord!
I updated the xpsp2tcpipfix.exe file to 2.11a, for prosperity. I also put up a copy of the zip file EvID4226Patch211a.zip, which is at http://www.kyhwana.org/EvID4226Patch211a.zip

I can take the binary down if you really want me too, just email me at kyhwana at kyhwana.org

Posted at 4:29AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Daniel Richards

9. Hi!
No, it's ok! Since there can't be enough mirrors out here *g*
Thanks for your help in creating a mirror :-)
LvlLord

Posted at 4:29AM on Dec 19th 2005 by LvlLord

10. OKAY.. I'm running SP2 with Azureus 2.1.0.4. Before installing SP2, I had download speeds up to 40KB/sec (normal for ADSL). After installing, I only got 10KB/sec max DL, and a hard time keeping connected to trackers.

After downloading the program from LvlLord, I increased the amount of connections from 10 to 50. Straight away I got a warning from Windows about a change in the tcpip.sys file, but I clicked cancel -> yes. After restarting, my speed in Azureus did not increase one bit after 10 mins of running, still 10KB/sec max.

So I increased the no. of connections from 50 to 1000, and that produced a visible speed increase. Now i got up to 15 KB/sec.

Now, I'm testing out 10000, and will get back to you guys with the results.

Posted at 4:29AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Boon Koh

11. OKIE... incireased the max connections to 10000, but after 10 mins of running Azureus, there is an effect!! I'm now getting 40 KB/sec!! However, it took a full 15 mins to get that, whereas before it took less than 5. Another good news is that it eliminated the error messages in the My computer -> manage -> system tools -> event viewer -> system -> too many TCPIP connections.

So here's a testimony from someone who got it fixed!! Run the program by LvlLord, but fix the max connections at 1000 or 10000. In Azureus, I'm having the following settings: max uploads at 6, 80 max connections per torrent, 150 global, and the incoming TCP listen port is 50000. Try these settings.

Thanks LvlLord for the fix!

Posted at 4:29AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Boon Koh

12. I use Azereus and don't notice any problems I do have reports of eventid 4226, but they are only a few a day even with running it all day long. I do think SP2 causes problems with Shareaza, but its probably better to just update to the new and fixed Shareaza client instead of disabling a security feature.

Posted at 4:29AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Mike

13. I have found that while I do get log reports of the tcp limit being reached while running Azereus they are quite few, and don't seem to cause problems. I'll just wait as long as my speeds are good and maybe microsoft will move this to the registry at some point.

Posted at 4:29AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Mike

14. I am using TurboBT5.1, after installing SP2 my connection always hanged, speed for downloading is very slow and also having problem connecting to trackers . Even running the EvID4226Patch211a its doesn't seem to work well, the TurboBt will hang after running for about 15 mins. Thus, I've decided to uninstall SP2 and now I don't have all those mess problem any more. My download speed back to 60 to 110 kb/s. Lets hope that Microsoft will look into this problem before I reinstall SP2.

Posted at 4:29AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Andy

15. Hi!
The problem with speed decreases or no more good working software might be, because of the Data Execution Prevention (DEP). This has been introduced in SP2 in XP. You can switch it completly off when you change in the BOOT.INI the parameter "/NoExecute=OptIn" to "/NoExecute=AlawaysOff"
This helped many people, as I know!

Cheers
LvlLord

Posted at 4:29AM on Dec 19th 2005 by LvlLord

16. As we currently try to solve the DNS-server problem, I need your help. Please look at http://mitglied.lycos.de/lvllord/download-mirror.htm for detailed informations.
Thanks in advance!
LvlLord

Posted at 4:29AM on Dec 19th 2005 by LvlLord

17. OK, thanks LvlLord.
I've mirrored the new version (and the http://www.kyhwana.org/xpsp2tcpipfix.exe file I updated with the 2.12a binary), so you can get the zip from http://www.kyhwana.org/EvID4226Patch212-en.zip

Posted at 4:29AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Daniel Richards

18. LvlLord? I believe this is written to you...

After sp2 (actually a few days after, not immediatly), while using Azureus, I noticed a HUGE drop in browser response times, really big. Many other things in my comp slowed to frustrating 486 speeds.

Without really understanding what the xpsp2tcpipfix.exe did, I ran it, and then ran directly back here to say 'thanks'. No more blue faces in Azureus (tracker timing out) and web browsers and pages actually load. (I set the half open connections maximum to 100 using the above downloadable fix)

I'll come back after a day or two to confirm that the problem is still gone.

Thanks.

Posted at 4:29AM on Dec 19th 2005 by ts elliot

19. The following is an email I received from Azureus support regarding the XP sp2 problem:

the latest development version of Azureus solves this problem, so the next official version will too.

Gudy.
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About two months ago I updated to my XP Pro to SP2 and noticed that Azureus, as well as other bittorent apps stopped working correctly. My downloads speeds would always slow down and eventually stop. When I uninstalled SP2 bittorent downloads worked just fine again.

Are you aware of anyone else reporting this problem?

Thanks,
Adam

Posted at 4:29AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Adam

20. After installing SP2 I can see people on the DC server and chat with them but I cannot see one's list or download from anyone. Before SP2 everything was ok. I tryed deactivating the firewall in SP2 but that didn't help.
Will get back with news (if any).

Posted at 4:29AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Vasiliuc