Anyone know wat this mean?

You've never had a lowid before?

You're udp is blocked. Add any new hardware or software firewall? Lately Pawcio has been losing udp for no reason. A restart brings it back.

not udp karst, it means that your ip is unreachable by the vast majority of peers, not just udp, since lowid stems back from the days of edonkey2000 and that didn't even use it

You must ensure that your firewall isn't blocking TCP access to edonkey/emule ports. It can be produced artificially with a dud connection with a server, you should really reconnect to a few servers, if it repeatedly happens then you have a problem, most likely one of the following

a) your packets to the standard emule ports are being lost, ie. running two clients with the same ports from your ip. The data will get lost and you can't communicate with the server or peers
b) your nat/firewall is loosing packets to your emule ports, check your firewall (ie. especially make sure internal firewall is off)
c) your isp is blocking ports to emule. This is serious, and can seriously prevent you from effectively using emule. Try changing ports, but hold little hope of connecting without a series bottleneck.
d) the server is having trouble reaching your ip, through blocking or error. Reconnect or change servers.


UDP does not effect id though, you can safely turn it off and still get a highid. UDP is a protocol that is unsafe, and is merely a broadcast of expendable information.

So are you saying that UDP should be turned off spud?

hell no, it doesn't effect id, but it sure as hell effects performance.

As said, its an expendable data packet. This means that it is broadcast with no encryption and the notion that it will reach its destination, if its lost, tough cheddar. This means less overhead than TCP which has to negotiate, ack then transfer, and will resend if the packet is lost. This means UDP is useless for important data, such as your download packets.

However, its perfect for source exchange, stats, connectivity, communicating with peers, etc. You broadcast sources to other peers, it doesn't matter if they don't reach the destination or are intercepted, but they still contain source info and you will loose this huge advantage if you turn it off.

The KAD network exists based upon the concept, you exchange peer lists/connectivity to the network based upon UDP. This means low-id isn't an issue with KAD, you either have your data blocked, or you don't (firewalled or not). ID is calculated based upon your ip connectivity.

Thanks for the info spud. I've always forwarded ports for both, and gave credit for id to udp.