Hi guys,

After using emule for a few months now I've by no way seen any high connection speeds, although I have had a maximum of 100 - 120kb/s in total over 15-20 downloads on rare occasions (between 0-10kb/s average on each of those d/loading files).

Even with 6 sources I only had about 5kb/s speed. The maximum speed I've had is about 15. I realise it counts on the uploader's speed but it does seem pretty poor... and it's been even worse over the last week or so (4kb/s speed max even on popular files).

I did try a previous answer and download a poular file such as Land Of The Dead and it took me at least a couple of days (and my speed never picked up afterwards, even though that user's did).

Sorry about this, but I persisted in trying until now. I'm not a computer idiot by any means but now it's time to try and sort it out.


Thanks in advance guys

Mr Sooner

BTW, I'm on Tiscali 1mb unlimited, using XP and Zone Alarm (it's worked for me, albeit slowly/average much of the time) and currently having a try at Sygate personal firewall with absolutely no joy at all right now - and I've just upgraded to emule v0.47a from the previous version.

I'm also quite new on eMuling. I found that Emule MorphXT seems to get me better up en downloading speeds. I had quite a few probs aswell. But after reading several posts here (and some Googlin') it's all going fine.
Is your mule runnin' on a high id? Is it connected to both KAD and ED2K?
Which are the settings you've provided (Emule-options-connection-down/up)? Especially that last one did it for me.
Had it running on (default?) 50 kb up and 0 down. After testing the speed on the internet i changed it and it works great.
If all of that is correctl(on your mule) try building up a bigger list of downloadeble files if that doesn't do the trick you could try another emule mod. I've read some good things on this board about Neo.

Cheers

Stop using Zone Alarm for one, it's known to interfere with emule.

As pure rightly asks, have you got a high or low ID?
If you're connected to Kademlia does it show Firewalled or open?
Are you behind a router?
If so have you forwarded the emule ports?
have you tried changing ports?
What ports are you using atm the moment (I find that port 88 TCP works well for me).
What Client are you using?

There's a HELL of a lot of variables we would need to know about before being able to advise

There's a big possibility that you already know this but the ports can be tested. Go to the options menu-connection and then test ports to see if they need to be changed. If you're behind a router i think you should check the ammount of connections it can make. I don't use a router but after reading some posts it became clear that most routers can't support the great amount of connections.

As PC Arcade said there's a lot of info missing here to help you sort things out.

Thanks for your replies folks... I know it can be a pain in the behind with guys such as myself asking the (maybe) obvious... much appreciated here.

I'm not an easy one to give up on computer problems. If I have a problem I HAVE TO sort it, but after two or so months had to ask for advice on this one I'm afraid

Right...

My ports are TCP: 8300 and UDP 8400 - There were absolutely NO connections when I first installed emule, changing from ed2k. I presumed my ISP was blocking the ports and I think I sorted that one out 'cos I had connections afterwards.

My hard limit is 600 and max connections was 500 (until I browsed last night to try and sort this out again and Spud mentioned in an older post setting it to 1000-3500 depending on processing power - 2ghz P4 here and set to 2000 last night )

I have a high ID (connected to Razorback 2.0), upload limit is 12kb/s, download limit is 117.

I can connect to kad by clicking 'bootstrap' - spotted how to do that in another post. It says 'firewalled' to start with and changes to open - or at least it did within 5 minutes as I just connected. But I have noticed it as 'open' many times in the past.

Having only recently gone on to broadband I have an adsl modem (speedtouch) but haven't a clue how to check if it's a router also. I did intense googling and had a butchers on the portforward website, but couldn't find any info on my modem on whether it's a router.

Zone Alarm gives me connections, albeit low-ish - 15k max. Sygate wouldn't give me any even running it for 30-40 mins (I connect quicker in ZA. I tried Kerio the other day but kept seeing many different things popping up that I didn't have a clue about (trying to access the net) so I reverted to ZA - as I get some connections and ease of use (probably wrong choice there).

Is that enough info or can I offer you any more?


Appreciate the help,

Mr Sooner

Oh and I'm now on the official 0.47a... just upgraded from 0.46 in the last day or two.


Cheers

OK, try this :

Make SURE the XP firewall is off,
change TCP to 88 and 6127 for UDP
put hard limit to 600 and max conns to 350
Try a different mod, MorphXT seems to be the best for most people

Also, how many files are you downloading?

What model is your modem? Also try setting upload to ~28k/s, the more you upload the more you can download.

Okaaay

XP firewall was ALWAYS off... never touch the beast

I've installed MorphXT and changed the ports and connections to the settings suggested.

And I errm, have, errrm 236 downloads lined up... I went a tad crazy and clicked almost all I saw on this site before I joined to start saying thanks

I have one d/load at 174b/s as I type - similar speed at times before (but I know it usually needs time!)


Thanks for the swift reply!

Check your ports thru the options menu-connection. Just to make sure that ain't the problem.



Thats' a good one too. Probably will work aswell.

For me i'm on a planet internet connection using a alcatel speedtouch modem and having no probs with that.

236 is too many, pause ~ half and go to settings and select unpause next file ehrn file finishes (or something like that)

Right, I've used a bit of sense (blimey, that's a shock! ) and changed the downloading files to 28 files - stopping (not pausing) the rest.

Still low speeds on the couple of brief d/loads so far (900b/s max with sources totalling over 400) - I'll give it an hour or two and see how it goes though

Any more advice or is it a case of waiting and seeing?


Thanks again for all advice and to PC_arcade, of course

No need in stopping the downloads. Like Pc said use the function start next paused file while a file completes.

My speeds often vary from 12 up and 6 down to 30/45 up and 120 down.
So there's no real tellin the speed.

You can use a online prog. to test your internet speeds. But that's also pretty good known i think.

Well i got more downloads on the go and it doesn't effect my source finding or speed one bit. I don't agree with PCA on that one that that's in anyway a problem.

I've never had a problem with too many downloads on my queue to date, i'd state that it won't make much difference, and your more likely to get a higher combined speed infact, if anything.

Perhaps some radical testing is needed?

Do a search of Servers (Global) for "Kerio", click on the column that says sources so that they are ordered from most to least and download the top one.

This should do two things, 1 test to see if you can download since the download shouldn't take that long to complete with such a small well shared app. Secondly, you've got a firewall that's top class to replace that pos Zonealarm.

Cheers again...


The modem is a Thomson speedtouch 330 (so it says on the back of it).

Uploads up to 28 now...

Downloads occasionally speeding up a tad (2 sources at 6kb/s occasionally)

The TCP test through the options/connections has failed. Even so, uploads are at full speed and downloads ARE better than they were (makes sense as I don't have 200 downloads on the go now!)

Sorry, missing messages out as I'm trying to do three things at once, lol

Trying out kerio now... it will download as I have some going right now (better than before too, though 3.6 with three sources - the less d/loads may have helped). As I said, I tried it before, but I'll give it another go and maybe ditch ZA


Cheers for all your help up to now. Hope it improves in time

Just a question/thought...

Could the slow d/loads be down to the TCP connection test failing? (I'm lost on getting that to work - although I got it to work early on in emule use)


Or if the test 'failed' should there be any connection at all?


Bugger, me brain's getting twisted right now!

The Thomson speedtouch 330 is a modem, not a router.

Thanks for that George, I did read on here that some ADSL modems have built in routers - wasn't sure on this one

As far as i know those should be fixed. I've read several posts on other sites from people who had some kind of problems with the mule concerning TCP connection. Don't know if it applies to you but if i we're you i would try to fix that a.s.a.p.
Did you find any info about your modem? Router functions etc.? Just to be sure that that ain't the problem.

Cheers