A change of client — didn’t help.
I was using Azureus to handle my torrent downloads for a long time — and had been experiencing a very irritating problem for that long too.
What kind of problem? One that seemingly disabled all my reverse DNS, everywhere, unless I’m using IP to do connections — web surfing would then be a pain in the ass, connecting to game servers with addresses wouldn’t work and I had to edit the configuration with an IP address instead, and POP3 mail checking became nightmare when I was doing torrent downloads. But it was nothing a reboot couldn’t help, so I didn’t really care about it.
But recently I’m starting to find that it’s a pain to reboot whenever it happens, especially when I’m doing major downloading and I am locked out of the web for that period of time until I’m done with them, and usually they take a long time to be completed. I have to work around it, if I can’t find out why it’s happening.
So I changed to BitComet hoping that if the problem was caused by Azureus, it would no longer bugged me with this new client. And the result is still the same. Interesting.
I had seriously been thinking that it was the limiting socket connections (event 4226) issue, and still think it is as I’m getting a number of 4226 entries recently in my event logs.
TCP/IP has reached the security limit imposed on the number of concurrent TCP connect attempts.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
I remember doing tweaks to the limiting digits, but I guess it didn’t really work, if at all. And now I’m doing it the BitComet way and see if it does any magic.
Meanwhile, I had to try something easier — entering a proxy for web surfing (which I hate so much as surfing would most likely slow to a crawl). Web surfing was then possible, but not much luck with Thunderbird yet — seems like I’m out of my wits now and many other friends who are using either BitComet or Azureus apparently have experienced no problems and it’s only me.
I hope not though, as I intend to seek help and see what exactly is going wrong — someone out there is bound to have the same problems like I do! Solving the web surfing problem makes things easier as my family members need to do web surfing on this shared computer; now it’s the e-mail issue.
Guess I’ll place my bet on the TCP/IP limits issue until proven otherwise then.
Oh well. If you can help with this, don’t hesistate!