Hi guys, i have a quick question for anyone that can help. Im a seasoned BT'r, been using torrents for a few years now. this forum rocks! ive found stuff in here in the last few days that i really had came to a grim resolve i would have little or no chance of ever getting to see.

heres the problem though. i am a complete newbie to emule. and im having a tough time with it. i dont understand if im doing something wrong or w3hat exactly is the problem. for the last two days ive got somewhere around 6 clicks going. the problem is, im only dl'ing around 6k max, but ive been ul'ing somewhere around 15-30k max. am i doing something wrong here? or is this normal? i mean i have quite a few films i would love to seed but theres a few i would like to get first

im just not sure how this emule works i guess. i dunno ive looked around and im currently connected to the razorback server 2.0 after reading a few posts i choose that one over the newer one as it seemed to have a nicer ping/user ratio. also, i tried using that morp mod earlier as i read it is a little better/quicker then the standard mule. but when i got it running, it sat there for like 40 minutes just uploading, not downloading anything at all. all the files never left the wait status.

right now its been stuck at a ETA for these same 6 movies for about 3 days. maybe theres no one seeding them anymore? dunno.

can anyone help?

Ralph

Ah hell, I could be here all day making suggestions so start here:
http://forum.emule-project.net/index.ph ... opic=37280

read that and then report back.

We can help and I will try, but have a read of that first.

Regards

It is a entirely different beast. Speeds of downloads might seem dissappointing at first. As with BT, make sure youre in active mode (open ports). Add a lot to your download queue as well. In a week it will be running smooth. Sparhawk is right read that thread. If your like horror films then this is THE place to go, you might never use BT again... with the exception of the torrent releases here.

when you say 3days, you mean 24/7 right? Emule is best just left alone, the longer you leave it on, the faster it will go up to a fashion.

You sound like your new to emule, which unfortunately means you have to build up your 'credits' that is, the more you upload, the higher ranking you get in other people's queues, the more concurrent downloads you get. You don't get faster speed off one peer, but you get more peers downloading.

I've been at it for a long time, on morphxt, it takes 5mins - 1 hr to pick up, it normally then downloads over 100kb/s (in total across the downloads). its a peer to peer network so its all kind of relative mind you.

I do download a lot of files though, 6 movies isn't even a fraction of the list i have

i think i kind of am starting to get an idea of how this works, so does your emule client or the network then keep a running long of how much your uploaded while it remains consistantly connected? if so thats probably half the problem right there as ive been over the last few days had it on 24/7, however 10-12 hours into it and no (seeming progress and i shut it down and try something else and start it back up again a few minutes later. so every time ive done that, ive kinda gotten knocked to the back of the line so to speak?

thanks for the link to the emule forum im gonna go read that right now. thanks guys!

Ralph

kinda, its a tad smarter and other clients keep track of your clientid.

The thing is, whereas BT are short queues for tiny chunks, emule is huge queues for 8mb chunks. This means longer waiting to get transfers going. The more you've uploaded to someone, the higher in that person's queue you start off next time you download something from them.

Emule is a tad poor for just 1 download or 2. If you have several hundred it tends to work a lot better.

so would you suggest keeping all my downloaded files in my share folder and kicking up the amount of downloads im doing from say 6-7 to 10-20?

Well firstly, sharing horror movies will help you download other horror movies. If i download from you, i will give you a higher ranking if you want to grab something from me... so yes, its not a good idea to instantly yank stuff out of your shared folder. I guess thats one reason why emule is a good community piece of software in so far that what you share helps with what you download. A forum like this garantees that horror fans are all downloading the same links so it kind of helps you out to keep movies shared (the less full sources the link has the better, generally).

You might want to try a big non-horror movie, to see the difference in speed. Generally big scene releases and pr0n goes way faster, sad but true.

I would also recommend increasing the number of downloads too. It won't increase the speed on any individual downloads, but it should increase the total amount of bandwidth emule is using.

What i do is create cateogries (second button on the top tab, add categories). Then i fill up all the different categories with all the movies i want (ie. i have hundreds of horror movies from this site, lots of movies from fh.org, forum.fucktheinter.net, acfmovies.com on another tab, lots of movies from scifi.dead-donkey.com too).

It takes up a lot of temp space and each individual file doesn't download any faster, but it ensures i get at least 3 completed movies a day now i've been running emule for ages.

That's the strength of the network, keeping stuff shared. There's stuff you can't get elsewhere, and its partly because it is kinda slow. This differs to Bit Torrent and kazaa, and all the others in so far that people get their single file completed then tend to unshare or whatever it.

I know if your just wanting those 6 movies, that probably sucks ass though. They will complete though, its just imo emule is all about queing up 100s of files compared to getting a single file.

I don't know if that makes much sense or is very useful, i hope there's some useful advice in that.

for the sake of knowing, I currently have 285 horror movies i'm downloading (many on pause/stopped though), about 28 movies, same amount of scifi movies and then 50-100 tv episodes on the go. I complete at least 1 movie a day, but it ranges from about 5 average to 15. I also have my client built up to the point where my download speeds across all the files very quickly gets its way above 100kb/s almost as soon as I load emule up. If i just had 6 movies I wouldn't be downloading at that speed, and it might take a while for those few files to download, they'd probably download slightly quicker than they do with several hundred downloads, but only slightly and i wouldn't be utilising as much of my bandwidth on emule (and emule is kind of a jugganaught piece of software that needs to use most of your bandwidth imo)

thanks for the tips spud. yup a couple days ago, i decided to go ahead and try going from 6 files to 60-70. and guess what? my overall bandwith went from 6k to about 200, of course its spread out over and bunch of movies. and then on top of that just now after reading this last post i decided to take a look and sure enough i dont have a shared directory specified, so ive gone in and made my incoming the same as my shared directory hopefully that will speed things up as well.

One more tip, use a nickname like:

HHAH Misterov [CHN][KOR]

HHAH is this sites 'community' which i don't know about other members but i add people with hhah before their name to my friends list and give friends slots (as well as community boost). CHN and KOR are chinese and korean communities, and their intenet connections are shit hot, so its good to get a speed boost off of them.