Re: [Pan-users] Pan for windows max connections...

[Alan Meyer]

John Lewis <address@hidden> wrote:

> Is there a way to configure pan to have connections greater than
> 4?  The gui seems to override any changes made to the XML file for
> this property.

I recommend that you check your actual download speed both before
and after switching to more than four connections.  Unless you're
getting a significant and useful boost, I'd set it back to a max of
four.

There's always going to be some maximum number of connections at
which you saturate some resource - Internet connection speed, CPU,
writing to disk, or whatever.  Beyond that your actual download
speeds stay the same or get worse instead of better.

I would think that having really large numbers of connections will
also make you more conspicuous to the management programs monitoring
traffic at your ISP and at your news server.  So bear in mind that
you could be calling attention to yourself with large numbers of
connections.

-- 
Alan Meyer
address@hidden