You know what BitTorrent does: It crushes your router’s will to live and opens connections to people all over the globe. But did you know that every version of Windows since Windows XP SP2 will only let you open 10 of those connections? You can see how this might be a problem when more than 10 people can seed a file to you, and that ignores the connections established for your peers.

Lucky for you and your aspirations for downloading Ubuntu (what, piracy? noooo…), there is a fix. Enter Half-open Limit fix. This here program will bump that limit up to the recommended 100, and it’ll work for any version of Windows currently in service, beta or otherwise.

Image courtesy of Half-open.com

To anyone who rocked LvlLord’s TCP/IP patcher, take note: There’s a new sheriff in town.

It is said that P2P traffic accounts for nearly half of the bandwidth consumed on the Internet. It is believed by some that this usage is a fraction of what is possible were it not for the ease in which TCP traffic is managed for the sake of QoS. With the announcement that makers of BitTorrent intend to use UDP — a relatively unmanaged counterpart — some believe that core infrastructure of the Internet will be crushed once this traffic escapes local ISPs.

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