Couple of Windows Xp questions.

[bork[e]]

* First of all, I've been reading through many sites that you can speed up your connection by adding a few values in the registry. I tried a few and after a few hours of gaming/download/browsing I didn't notice a difference and set everything back to default. This is the site I ended up trying

btw, I don't have a connection problem, just every site about connection tweaking I found said those would speed you up...so I thought I would give it a try...this bs or what?

* Using Windows Xp's Remote Desktop, is there a way to only allow one IP to connect to the host computer? Haven't found much info on this, so I'm guessing no.

While on this point, any thing I need to watch out for while activating this...as far as security goes? On Ms's site they say just have a good password and you should be good. Also, I only know of a few security problems in the past few years. So this shouldn't be a problem I suppose.

[Tormentius]

The connection tweak is good, especially for P2P.

To limit RDP most routers support allowing X new rule to apply only if originating IP is Y. Also rename your administrator account and pick a good passphrase.

[bork[e]]

haha, the one thing I didn't really test it on. I know MS sets those settings for a certian reason, so is my connection going to get unstable once I set them to the above settings? Or are they set that way to service a wider range of connection speeds, and those settings are more geared towards a faster connection?

Or am I way out in left field? :lol:

thanks for the info.

[bork[e]]

Now I remember my other questions...I stumbled upon a site one night that told you how to disable the feature that only allowed you to have 3 downloads at once. When I'm downloading mass amounts of gay port it's hard for me to do all this in under and hour.

So, can someone tell me how to disable this and bump it up above and beyond 3 please. tia.

[^misantropia^]

I don't really see the purpose of those hacks, except maybe for scaling up the receive frame size[1] and the max TTL[2].

[1] Good for unstable connections where packets may arrive in a different order than they were sent. Should decrease packet drops/resends.

[2] Timeouts will take longer to register, though.

[Tormentius]

The connection limit reghack is to increase the default limit of 50 connections that XP has.