Sorry for the rude answer before, but there is no need to pay money for something, if you can get it just as good for free.

With the patch you can increase the number of connections.
Many antivirus and spywareprograms will pick it up as a hacking tool (which it is in a way. It gives you access to settings windows doesn't allow) so you will have to disable them while applying the patch

In my experience it works great

http://www.lvllord.de/

you can get it from this site