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

[Duncan]

John Wendel posted on Sat, 28 Dec 2013 11:53:10 -0800 as excerpted:

> Good advice. I've found that 4 connections can max out my 50Mb
> connection.
> Of course it depends on your ISP and NSP, so YMMV. Depending on your
> NSP, you can run more than one copy of PAN, the configuration is left as
> an exercise for the student (clone your .pan2 directory with a new name
> and appropriate changes).

(And set the PANHOME/PAN_HOME environmental var, IDR whether it gets the 
underline tho or not.)

I know someone who had his binary machine, his text groups on another 
machine, and his wife's machine with a few sewing groups, etc.  This is 
where NSP features such as 50 connections come in handy, not so much to 
max out a connection since it normally takes far fewer connections (under 
10, sometimes four will do it, sometimes a few more) for that, but so the 
binary machine can run the connections necessary to max it out when 
nothing else is going on, and there's still connections left for other 
machines or profiles on the same machine, without forcing the binary 
machine/profile to use fewer connections to accommodate that when there's 
bandwidth free, even tho the binary machine/profile might get a bit less 
than maxed bandwidth when the other machines are actually actively 
working too.

(This of course assumes all machines are working thru NAPT on the same 
IPv4 IP address, or the same personal IPv6 net, since NSPs do normally 
restrict connections to a single one.)

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