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BTW Cable Nut is the best way to tweak your OS for faster browsing. It can speed up your browsing by 40% if your still using default winxp settings and have a fast connection. Fast being at least 5mbps, since less than that default config will work just as well.

  • 1 year later...

This patch will *NOT* affect browsing speed; u might see a difference in P2P connections though. And BTW, Micro$oft put a cap on the no. of outgoing connections for a specific reason, and that was to limit the damage that might be caused if a computer running XP was turned into a zombie machine by a worm. That way, the infected machine would not be able to spread the worm too quickly.

So, it's better to leave things as they are.

It's all in your mind then.

The 10 half-open sockets per second limit won't effect download speeds (it doesn't limit open connections), and even then it's only a second long throttle, if you're trying to open more than 10 connections a second to hosts that don't respond (hosts that do don't count), you're doing something wrong.

  • 2 years later...

https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/602537-how-to-secure-windows-2000xpserver-2003-even-vista-in-12-steps/

You'd get a HELL OF A LOT MORE NOTICEABLE SPEED SURFING THE WEB, by applying POINT #10 in that guide (about custom HOSTS files), as well as getting more security in the same pass, + for NO CPU cycles use (since the HOSTS file is a filter really only)...

NOW, *IF* "my take" on it isn't "good enough"? Well, there is what Mr. Oliver Day stated about using HOSTS files for SECUNIA.COM (a security division of SYMANTEC):

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Resurrecting the Killfile

Oliver Day, 2009-02-04

http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/491

"The host file on my day-to-day laptop is now over 16,000 lines long. Accessing the Internet particularly browsing the Web is actually faster now."

"Once a registrar pulls a website from its records, the world ceases to have an effective way to find it. Shared host files could provide a DNS-proof method of reaching sites, not to mention removing an additional vector of detection if anyone were trying to monitor the use of subversive sites"

"From what I have seen in my research, major efforts to share lists of unwanted hosts began gaining serious momentum earlier this decade. The most popular appear to have started as a means to block advertising and as a way to avoid being tracked by sites that use cookies to gather data on the user across Web properties. More recently, projects like Spybot Search and Destroy offer lists of known malicious servers to add a layer of defense against trojans and other forms of malware."

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Do consider the use of a custom HOSTS file for more speed online AND MORE SECURITY TOO, in the same pass...

APK

https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/602537-how-to-secure-windows-2000xpserver-2003-even-vista-in-12-steps/

You'd get a HELL OF A LOT MORE NOTICEABLE SPEED SURFING THE WEB, by applying POINT #10 in that guide (about custom HOSTS files), as well as getting more security in the same pass, + for NO CPU cycles use (since the HOSTS file is a filter really only)...

NOW, *IF* "my take" on it isn't "good enough"? Well, there is what Mr. Oliver Day stated about using HOSTS files for SECUNIA.COM (a security division of SYMANTEC):

----

Resurrecting the Killfile

Oliver Day, 2009-02-04

http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/491

"The host file on my day-to-day laptop is now over 16,000 lines long. Accessing the Internet particularly browsing the Web is actually faster now."

"Once a registrar pulls a website from its records, the world ceases to have an effective way to find it. Shared host files could provide a DNS-proof method of reaching sites, not to mention removing an additional vector of detection if anyone were trying to monitor the use of subversive sites"

"From what I have seen in my research, major efforts to share lists of unwanted hosts began gaining serious momentum earlier this decade. The most popular appear to have started as a means to block advertising and as a way to avoid being tracked by sites that use cookies to gather data on the user across Web properties. More recently, projects like Spybot Search and Destroy offer lists of known malicious servers to add a layer of defense against trojans and other forms of malware."

----

Do consider the use of a custom HOSTS file for more speed online AND MORE SECURITY TOO, in the same pass...

APK

https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/602537-how-to-secure-windows-2000xpserver-2003-even-vista-in-12-steps/

You'd get a HELL OF A LOT MORE NOTICEABLE SPEED SURFING THE WEB, by applying POINT #10 in that guide (about custom HOSTS files), as well as getting more security in the same pass, + for NO CPU cycles use (since the HOSTS file is a filter really only)...

NOW, *IF* "my take" on it isn't "good enough"? Well, there is what Mr. Oliver Day stated about using HOSTS files for SECUNIA.COM (a security division of SYMANTEC):

----

Resurrecting the Killfile

Oliver Day, 2009-02-04

http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/491

"The host file on my day-to-day laptop is now over 16,000 lines long. Accessing the Internet particularly browsing the Web is actually faster now."

"Once a registrar pulls a website from its records, the world ceases to have an effective way to find it. Shared host files could provide a DNS-proof method of reaching sites, not to mention removing an additional vector of detection if anyone were trying to monitor the use of subversive sites"

"From what I have seen in my research, major efforts to share lists of unwanted hosts began gaining serious momentum earlier this decade. The most popular appear to have started as a means to block advertising and as a way to avoid being tracked by sites that use cookies to gather data on the user across Web properties. More recently, projects like Spybot Search and Destroy offer lists of known malicious servers to add a layer of defense against trojans and other forms of malware."

----

Do consider the use of a custom HOSTS file for more speed online AND MORE SECURITY TOO, in the same pass...

APK

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