Both, Emule (for me anyway) will always try and fill as many connections as I give it (my router will deal with ~270) if I'm doing anything else (browsing, irc, ftp) etc then emule will kill the connction and force the other app to re-connect.

ah i see where your meaning.

In stats it says "average connections: 487" and "peak connections: 789". I reset my stats every week or so, but I mean i don't think it has any problems, its mostly downloading at full rate and uploading at 20ish (although it seems to be fluctuating recently).

Yeah, that makes more sense, your router's better than mine though

/me does the I'm better than you dance

Mine was cheaper though

Out of interest, what router do you own?

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Draytek Vigor2500
Ultra cheap

On ADSL. Maybe it does have a nat connection limit, but if it does, I think i can't reach it on 512, will be upgrading to 2mbit at the end of the month (at last), so i'm hoping it holds out then if it does have a limit.

Yes, it doesn't matter how high the limit is set, but how many actual connections there actually are at the given moment.

I have a friend with a cheapo Belkin who's downloading 50 pr0ns simultaneously and it kept hanging (router, not friend) until I set his max. connections to 240. It still hangs sometimes, but it's much, much better than before and download speed isn't affected that much.