"Ethernet" Connection Drop

Mine has now been up for five days. Something good seems to be going on. :)

:) (h5)

How many of you have applied network tweaks?
I'm getting the network dropout issue as well, with a Realteck 8168 Ethernet wired onboard LAN.

Here's where i think the problem lies, can you check your application logs and check for similar entries?

Code:

Windows detected your registry file is still in use by other applications or services. The file will be unloaded now. The applications or services that hold your registry file may not function properly afterwards.  

 DETAIL - 
 1 user registry handles leaked from \Registry\User\S-1-5-21-4221687174-3778838241-806362753-1001:
Process 2156 (\Device\HarddiskVolume3\Windows\System32\svchost.exe) has opened key \REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-4221687174-3778838241-806362753-1001

That seems rather fishy IMO. SVCHost.exe is our network controller. For that to be bugging out and misreading the registry just logically leads to an error in configuration.

With the problematic App being SVCHOST and me just having recently garnered a double repeat of network dropouts, i'm betting the cause was my Tweak7 network optimisation.

I've launched Tweak7 and reset network settings back to default;; I'll keep you updated and let you know if i get anymore dropouts.

For those curious; yes it seems to once agian be caused by uploading.
More specifically; the global max simultaneous connections.
Backing up with software like Backblack probably only goes through a few dozen connections a minute at max.
I've been running azureus with DHT enabled and no max connections limitations - i also saw the two network dropouts within 5 minutes of each other.

Leads strongly to the conclusion that it's the amount of simultaneous connections open, after implementing a certain network tweak, which causes the dropouts.

sexytool said:

How many of you have applied network tweaks?
I'm getting the network dropout issue as well, with a Realteck 8168 Ethernet wired onboard LAN.

Here's where i think the problem lies, can you check your application logs and check for similar entries?

Code:

Windows detected your registry file is still in use by other applications or services. The file will be unloaded now. The applications or services that hold your registry file may not function properly afterwards.  

 DETAIL - 
 1 user registry handles leaked from \Registry\User\S-1-5-21-4221687174-3778838241-806362753-1001:
Process 2156 (\Device\HarddiskVolume3\Windows\System32\svchost.exe) has opened key \REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-4221687174-3778838241-806362753-1001

That seems rather fishy IMO. SVCHost.exe is our network controller. For that to be bugging out and misreading the registry just logically leads to an error in configuration.

With the problematic App being SVCHOST and me just having recently garnered a double repeat of network dropouts, i'm betting the cause was my Tweak7 network optimisation.

I've launched Tweak7 and reset network settings back to default;; I'll keep you updated and let you know if i get anymore dropouts.

For those curious; yes it seems to once agian be caused by uploading.
More specifically; the global max simultaneous connections.
Backing up with software like Backblack probably only goes through a few dozen connections a minute at max.
I've been running azureus with DHT enabled and no max connections limitations - i also saw the two network dropouts within 5 minutes of each other.

Leads strongly to the conclusion that it's the amount of simultaneous connections open, after implementing a certain network tweak, which causes the dropouts.

the wrench i can throw into this is that in my case, wireless, it knocks out the whole wlan, lan still connected, and wan working fine when problem happens. Dont know of that tweak7 you speak of, but that may be a problematic issue as well as the underlying cause of this all. I did a test yesterday and have graphs thta illustrate when the drops or almost drops occur. I will soon post a thread with this info as drive-by gallery of graph pics. This shows how sporadic, and how 7 seems to almost drop connection, right before it picked it back up, and so on, more detail about that when i post that thread, still a work in progress.

I agree with Digger's earlier comment that, whatever the problem, it is (or should be) MSs, not ours. There is no way we should need to be figuring this out or "patching" or whatever to get it to stop. (To be sure, I'd be delighted with hearing of a fix that actually "works," but that is only for the interim.)

Does anyone have any experience with build 7127 and whether it addresses this, rather serious, problem?

Well i actually have updated drivers for my Realteck RTL 8168 on the W7 segment of windows update.
It's not a vista driver, yet for some reason it still failed to install.
I'm going to try re-installing it if i get another dropout.

So far so good however, i forgot to upload last night.
As i write this i've been uploading for 5 mins odd.
Ill see how i go in the next couple of days and keep you posted.

Either way; If you are getting dropouts, please download Tweak7, go to the segment "Internet Tweaks" and "Internet Connection optimisation and speed up"

About half way down, click on "Reset to System Defaults"

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i am back.. it's dropping frequently again..

So far so good. I have been seeding at 40kb/sec for the last 12-16 hours.
No dropout.

sexytool said:

So far so good. I have been seeding at 40kb/sec for the last 12-16 hours.
No dropout.

try and download the x64 RC from MS while seeding and while not seeding. I've seen it d/c both ways, so its not due to just the upload drowning-out/crashing the network by itself.

I've actually noticed far better connectivity since doing the Tweak7 reset to default settings.

I'm not getting pages in my browser having their connections reset anymore and i'm not getting any lag in my browser between a click + a load its going at the proper speed.

Seriously, give resetting to default values a shot with Tweak7 if you're getting connection dropouts.

I've noticed nothing but improvements since doing it myself.

Chances are that certain software versions and driver installs are setting non-default settings and that's where the issue is cropping up from.