Internet-Accelerator + Traffic Shaping + ping optimizer + packet prioritization
Download notes:
* cFosSpeed 32-bit can be downloaded from here.
* Alternatively you can download the latest beta version of this software.
cFosSpeed - Internet Acceleration with Traffic Shaping. Maximum Download & Minimum Ping. For DSL, Cable, Modem, ISDN, Mobile, Filesharing (P2P), Online Games, VoIP, Streaming Media and Tuning More
features: Free configurable Prioritization - self-calibrating - Layer-7 Analysis - Firewall - automatic router detection - optimal Dial-Up connections - VPN - WLAN - MTU-Optimization - Multi User Features - broadband limits
What's New:
* Finally added auto-hide on fullscreen to the skin window. Thanks to
Richard B. (dj deipotent), who provided the code for this feature.
cFosSpeed automatically closes the skin windows, if an application
(e.g. a game) switches to fullscreen mode. It opens the window after
fullscreen mode is exited if the last time it was opened was automatically.
To disable this feature, set the key "hide_on_fullscreen" in the section for
the respective skin window/network card in cfosspeed.ini to 0.
* cFosSpeed can now block huge lists of IP-addresses the same way IP-Blockers
like Protowall and Peerguradian support them. All traffic to or from one of
the listed addresses is blocked. We call those lists "iplists".
It works like this: cFosSpeed supports these iplists through two filter
expressions: -s-iplist and -d-iplist. They are already set by default in
settings.ini.
The filters -s-iplist and -d-iplist accept as a second parameter an iplist
name. The default name used in settings.ini is "ipfilter". In the [iplist]
section in settings.ini or user.ini you must specify the iplist names with
the corresponding IP block list files that contain the IP-ranges to be
blocked. These block lists are not supplied with cFosSpeed.
An example excerpt from settings.ini:
filter=-tx -d-iplist ipfilter -c drop
filter=-rx -s-iplist ipfilter -c drop
[iplist]
ipfilter=c:\text\ipfilter.dat
ipfilter=c:\text\my.dat
This will read both files and make them available as iplist named 'ipfilter'.
This iplist is used by default to filter packets to the drop queue, i.e. to
discard them. Use "spd reload -iplist" to reload the iplists from the source
files.
See http://www.cfos.de/speed/documentation/filter_expressions.shtml#iplist
for more. Thanks to esz for the idea.
+ Nicer budget graphics; the usage graph can now also display the total
transmitted/received number of bytes. This is now the default.
+ Added support for VLAN tags. You can filter on VLAN packets with -is-vlan,
-vlan-prio and -vlan-id filters. And you can specify VLAN priority and ID
to be set for each traffic class.
+ Added new global setting "bulk_detect", which is 1 by default. Switch it
off to prevent cFosSpeed from guessing if certain l7-protocols (like IRC,
Telnet, file sharing) are in bulk mode, i.e. transferring large amounts of
data.
+ Added -tcp-lport, -udp-lport and -lport to match local ports and -tcp-rport,
-udp-rport and -rport to match remote ports.
+ Added help texts for global variables dump_sessions and passthru. Use e.g.
"spd gset passthru /?" to get help.
+ Added new filter option "-force-set-class". By setting this option in a
filter expression you can force cfosspeed to set the class of this filter
as the main class of the TCP/UDP connection this packet belongs to.
See http://www.cfos.de/speed/documentation/filter_expressions.shtml
section "RX-priorisation" for more details. Thanks to GB W for inspiration.
+ New language: Vietnamese! That makes a total of 19 languages supported.
Even more languages are downloadable from our web site, here:
http://www.cfos.de/speed/documentation/lang.htm
+ Added additional way of allocation to relieve non-paged pool.
x Favour ping time mode is no longer switched off with each installation.
Thanks to prophecy.
x Fixed "spd medium" command.
x Fixed a crash when machine wakes up from hibernation. Thanks to Eric
Fraser for dumps.
x If the cfosspeed.ini file was saved as non-unicode, it was not changed to
unicode later. This could cause a problem, when unicode filenames were
tried to save. Fixed.
x If the measured delay is too high the fixed shaping algorithm now lowers
txspeed more, even if we attained a higher speed some time before. This
should guard better against measurement or calculation errors.
x Tried to fix a psched.sys crash. Thanks to Kai for dump file.
x The variable shaper sent pings all the time, even if there was no traffic
otherwise. This has been fixed. Thanks to Octavian for the report.
x Expanded and fixed "spd tvstat" counters.
x Added more debug output when driver could not be loaded.
x RTP statistics were not printed when there were no RTCP sessions. Fixed.
x RTP detection bug fix.
x UDP checksum errors were counted but not printed. Fixed.
x UDP packets without checksum are now properly handled.
x Relaxed CPU load needed for program name queries on routed UDP traffic.
Thanks to GB W for help.
x Overview of active connections should have less "Unknown" program names now.
x Fixed potentially serious bug in interlocked handling.
x Now handle_mss is 0 by default, i.e. TCP MSS is not changed by cFosSpeed.
This should fix problems with some strange web sites.
- When installing, cFosSpeed no longer asks for the default shaping algorithm,
but instead uses the variable shaper. If you want to use the fixed shaper
instead, you can change this setting under Settings, Preferences, Traffic
Shaping Mode and for each connection individually under Connections when
you click on the toolkit icon.
- Added more debugging output to help finding "Driver not loaded" problems.
- The variable strict_rtp_check is now 0 by default. If you experience
many unexpected RTP packets in l7-protocol detection, you may want to switch
it back on.
- The global parameter dump_arp is now 0 by default.
