I'm getting really sloppy connection performance while surfing when I have eMule on, I get constant "connection timeout" when opening webpages. trying again after a while it works fine again, so the connection is not "slow", just dropping really often

And it seems I don't get timeouts if I close eMule completely ...

It's not long ago that my ISP doubled my DSL dl bandwidth, so now I have 1mbit download and 512kbit upload.

I have XP SP2 with the half-open connections fix.

Any ideas? :/

With mine connection (1024/320) it's when emule is running and I have no upload-limit set in emule (see preferences) my internet is really slow (surfing/mailing/chatting).

With my connection the maximum (theoretical) upload is about 40 kb/sec,allthough it's in real around 30/31 that emule uses.

But then my bandwidth for surfing is very narrow.On the 2nd PC too (which is connected through a router).

When I set an upload-limit in emule (and in my case I set it on 24 kb/sec) it's all running smoothly.

So at night and during the day it is without limit and from about we all get home here I set the limit so we can all use the 2 pc's.

Maybe it's all old news for you,but it's an idea anyway


Btw : I do have to restart my router/modem every week or so because then the things you describe are happening anyway.
But that has something to do with the max. connections the router
can make (so I've been told).

When it's restarted (router only,not the pc) then it's OK again.

So if you're on a router that's another idea too !

But it's sounds like it's the upload-limit you have to set in emule.

Greetz,

Kareltje538

you know what, I think it might have helped, I set the upload limit to 40kb/s.
Also for the first time ever with eMule, I see a download speed this high: a constant ~62kb/s

yes, Asymetric lines are incapable of constant upload/download. It will kill your connection, the sum for theoretical max is:



1mbit = 1024
1024 / 8 = 128 kb/s

512 / 8 = 64 kb/s

64 * 15% = 9.6
64 - 9.6 = 54.4 kb/s upload shouldn't effect your browsing too much, Set it to 50kb/s

If you allow Theoretical max - 15% you should not be effected and you are giving a fair (or rather what you can realistically spare) amount back