KaZaA Speed Tweak

BigAmp · Post by **BigAmp** » Fri Apr 19, 2002 12:19 pm

OK I have got this one going on KaZaA Lite so it should work on KaZaA and other like it.

use Regedit and go to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Kazaa\Transfer

make a DWORD Value named DownloadBandwidth set the value to the same Decimal or Hex value as you set your TcpWindowSize, that has worked realy well for me so far but I need more poeple to test it out!

so pl;ease give it a try and till me how it works

BigAmp · Post by **BigAmp** » Fri Apr 19, 2002 1:41 pm

I all most forgot, you can do this tweak when you have KaZaA running to make it easy to find numbers that work. trust me you will see when you have a bad one!

illestdynasty · Post by **illestdynasty** » Fri Apr 19, 2002 3:10 pm

didn't notice any difference. Maybe u have to reboot? Never heard of a registry change that didn't require a reboot.

BigAmp · Post by **BigAmp** » Fri Apr 19, 2002 3:20 pm

I saw a small speed increase with a lot more constant speeds

EvilAjax · Post by **EvilAjax** » Sun Apr 21, 2002 8:03 pm

You're hallucinating.. There is no way to tweak your transfer speeds w/ KaZaA. It all depends on how fast the upload is of the user whom you're downloading stuff from... which is usually SLOW!

BigAmp · Post by **BigAmp** » Sun Apr 21, 2002 11:17 pm

it lets you get more out of your end of the connection, by telling the program your speed and not having it do that it self.

Cyborg · Post by **Cyborg** » Mon Apr 22, 2002 3:27 am

in winxp i just prioritize kazaa and i get about 3 kbytes extra dl speed and yes it works

EvilAjax · Post by **EvilAjax** » Mon Apr 22, 2002 3:39 am

Originally posted by BigAmp
it lets you get more out of your end of the connection, but telling the program your speed and not having it do that it self.

I'll give it a try.

BigAmp · Post by **BigAmp** » Mon Apr 22, 2002 2:25 pm

on anthere forum that I have bosted this info on thay have pointed out that KaZaA has a lot of spyware in it, vary bad!

so I would like to help you all that like KaZaA but hate spyware, try KaZaA Lite some nice people have gone and take out a few thing in KaZaA to make it better, in short this means

No Adds
No Spyware
No Buddy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

you can find this software link in my Signature.

have Fun all!

BigAmp · Post by **BigAmp** » Tue Apr 30, 2002 12:00 am

Well I have got a lot of people looking at this tweak, but no one is tilling me how it is working for them. come on people work with me here!

SICMF · Post by **SICMF** » Tue Apr 30, 2002 2:58 pm

Hey I tried the Kazaa Speed Tweak and It Works Sweet. It Tripled my speed on Kazaa 1.6.1. GOOD DEAL!

piesfinder · Post by **piesfinder** » Tue Apr 30, 2002 6:31 pm

how do i make a DWORD Value named DownloadBandwidth?
and how do i find my TcpWindowSize?

SICMF · Post by **SICMF** » Tue Apr 30, 2002 6:43 pm

with kazaa go to start run regedit hunt down HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Systems\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters in the right screen you see the TcpWindowSize Key (probally at 7FFF Hex) after that go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Kazaa\Transfer and in the right screen right click and add dword name it DownloadBandwidth then Right click that value and modify set it to the TcpWindowSize you found out.

piesfinder · Post by **piesfinder** » Tue Apr 30, 2002 6:48 pm

i dont understand

silver55 · Post by **silver55** » Thu May 02, 2002 1:42 pm

tried the tweak last night... are you sure it works on the fly? i put the tweak in and the download speed didn't change much... at leat not enough to notice. however, when people are uploading from me, they are getting a larger burst rate...

my upload is at 128kbs, so roughly 16KB... when people use to connect, they would connect at around 30KB and drop to 16. now they connect at around 50-60KB and then slowly drop down to 16KB.

that's about all i notice... my imagination???

BigAmp · Post by **BigAmp** » Thu May 02, 2002 2:35 pm

if you want to see just how much it will mess with your speed try a realy low number like 100 and you speed will take a drive, besides that if you have a good number then you will see that your speed will stay more level over the download time. you can all so limit your download speed make it about 10% of you upload. so between 10 Kbps and 13 Kbps for you and get the setting that says "optimal bandwidth use when computer is idle" is NOT on (unchick it!). that just lets as many upload as your computer can take start when you level it to download. this is not good for your speed or the people who are downloading from you. you may all so want to limit the number of uploads to 1 or 2, I do this to give the people downloading from me the best speed they can get from me.

silver55 · Post by **silver55** » Thu May 02, 2002 2:46 pm

bigamp

i'll try a few different ranges tonight and see what happens...

as for uploads, yeah i di the same. i upload at time since i can only upload at 128kbs... what i hate is the download end. most people connect at over 500kbs, that's 50Kbs+, yet all i ever tend to get is 5-10Kbs, with an ocassional 30Kbs in there. is that the norm?

BigAmp · Post by **BigAmp** » Thu May 02, 2002 2:53 pm

thats about what I got before too, but I sime to find the 25Kb+ and even 50Kb+ a lot more now, if I'm up between about 1:30 am to 2:30 am (E.S.T.) and I get thing started to download then I can get two movie down by morning, that would be about 1.7 G of movie

silver55 · Post by **silver55** » Thu May 02, 2002 3:03 pm

i'll do it again tonight... i'm on the east coast too, so well see what i get in the wee hours of the night.

i've also noticed that people sharing software tend to have higher speeds the those with movie files... i was hitting 60Kb+... to bad all my down loads can't be like that...

let you know tomorrow...

slackerz · Post by **slackerz** » Tue May 21, 2002 5:17 am

great job.my downloads improve greatly thanx 2 u.any other tweak maybe??

BigAmp · Post by **BigAmp** » Tue May 21, 2002 1:35 pm

thanx amd welcome to speedguide.net.

gamedude2002 · Post by **gamedude2002** » Wed May 22, 2002 12:08 pm

It appears that I'm not the only one who got that Kazaa virus. I ditched Kazaa Lite because of it, too! Well, anyway, I downloaded a half-life downloader, and I was thinking "WTF? Half-Life for free?" And then I downloaded it. The thing basically ****** up my computer and in the end, my drive C went from 6.64GB of free space to an all time low of 4.86GB. WOW. Anyway, I'll give feedback on this soon as possible.

AzN_ChRoNiC · Post by **AzN_ChRoNiC** » Wed May 22, 2002 6:31 pm

my registry doesn't even HAVE tcip!!!

BigAmp · Post by **BigAmp** » Wed May 22, 2002 8:55 pm

only the windows 2K and XP have that, what value are you looking for on what OS? ie win 98SE?????????????

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Wed May 22, 2002 8:56 pm

Profile says Win ME, lol

AzN_ChRoNiC · Post by **AzN_ChRoNiC** » Wed May 22, 2002 8:57 pm

Yup, so how do I know mine? How do I tweak MY KaZaA?

AzN_ChRoNiC · Post by **AzN_ChRoNiC** » Wed May 22, 2002 8:58 pm

And what's so funny about WinMe?

BigAmp · Post by **BigAmp** » Wed May 22, 2002 9:00 pm

I just tought of that. I slow but, Mama says I'm special! he he
any ways, just try looking on this part of the speedguide site
http://www.speedguide.net/Cable_modems/ ... stry.shtml
that cover most reg tweaks for your OS.

BigAmp · Post by **BigAmp** » Wed May 22, 2002 9:02 pm

look at the first post I did on this string, it has the reg addres in red, there is nothing to do with tcip in this tweak.

AzN_ChRoNiC · Post by **AzN_ChRoNiC** » Thu May 23, 2002 5:06 pm

What? What about that first string? HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\
System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\NetTrans\000n, I know n could be any number but then what do I change after that? I'm a bit slow, but help me on this, and also help me on the UPLOAD SPEED PROBLEM IN THE SOFTWARE SECTION!!!!!!

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Thu May 23, 2002 5:10 pm

Please click in my signature where it says Test tweak here, then:
At top where it says edit click and select, Select all,
Then go back to same edit button at top, click and select copy.
Come back to Speed Guide, same thread you were on, in post reply box, with cursor blinking at begining of box go to top, edit, click, select paste, click, this will put information in box. Please X out your IP address, Thank you.

morbidpete · Post by **morbidpete** » Thu May 23, 2002 6:11 pm

hmm. did while runnig kazaa but no diff. will post result when im done downlading. downlading form some good speed pll right now and dont want to lose then.

AzN_ChRoNiC · Post by **AzN_ChRoNiC** » Thu May 23, 2002 6:42 pm

Okay, I don't understand how to tweak it, so someone please post how to tweak KaZaA in WinMe. Please!!

BigAmp · Post by **BigAmp** » Thu May 23, 2002 9:19 pm

in the same folder of the reg, there is a D-word entry called UploadBandwidth, mess with that one. I have value of 80 that keeps a max of 10 K upload. how that helps

gamedude2002 · Post by **gamedude2002** » Fri May 24, 2002 9:29 am

No difference whatsoever. I download at the same old 4.4KB/S (dialup) even with the bandwidth at 292000

EvilAjax · Post by **EvilAjax** » Fri May 24, 2002 10:28 am

I suggest you all use Kazaa Lite. A billion times better than Kazaa regular.

http://www.kazaalite.com

Make sure you unistall Kazaa first.

gamedude2002, you are on a dial up connection. Your maximum download is 56kbps... which means you cannot go above your limit, ESPECIALLY with 56k. The reason you don't see a difference is because there is no way to tweak Kazaa... it's a P2P program.. file sharing.. which means you can have a super fast connection, while the person you're downloading from has 56k.. You will download at extremely slow 1.2Kbytes. These types of programs are ones you can't really tweak. You just have to find a user with a high bandwidth, and just hope he doesn't have a whole bunch of other users downloading from him at the same time you are.

Sorry BigAmp, but I don't think this tweak works.

mccoffee · Post by **mccoffee** » Fri May 24, 2002 6:25 pm

kazza is one of the slowest peer to peer prgorams http://www.winmx.com

BigAmp · Post by **BigAmp** » Fri May 24, 2002 11:59 pm

I have found that the P2P all work for deffrent connections, I have DSL and the KaZaA Lite is great for me. but my roomates have cable and they find iMesh works way better on that.

AzN_ChRoNiC · Post by **AzN_ChRoNiC** » Sat May 25, 2002 9:32 am

KaZaA Lite's icons are screwed up on the top, lol. But I still use it anyway

darkreign · Post by **darkreign** » Mon May 27, 2002 8:56 am

hey... any chance of someone telling me what my tpcwindowsize should be
there is no entry called TcpWindowSize
..
thanks

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