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Originally Posted by robomonkey
I noticed in an earlier post that you were using Azaerus Torrent Manager, I instaled that recently and it absoultly killed my connection, it was working fine for months, then I installed Azaerus and then it stopped, pages would take ages to open (even google) Initailly I didn't twig, and thought it was a DNS problem, but as soon as I uninstalled Azaerus it worked fine.
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There is another new issue with many P2P applications running under WinXP SP2 that can cause network connectivity to appear crippled. SP2 limits the number of TCP connections that can be in half-opened state to a maximum of 10 for the whole system: when that limit is hit, all other TCP open attempts are delayed in a queue. Thus a greedy P2P application can wreck web browsing or e-mail. A fix was built in to Azureus with effect from Azureus v2.2. All users of XP SP2 should update their P2P applications to versions that contain fixes for this new limit.