Hi for some reason emule is messing with messenger, not letting me sign in for more than a couple of minutes if at all

anyone else had this problem and know how to fix it?

why do you think it's eMule messing up the messenger?,

when i disconnect emule it works fine

It's because emule is using ALL the available ports and cutting off MSN.

Are you behind a router?

I've honestly never heard this one. I use trillian on my main pc on the standard msn port, and i can connect to msn on my pc with emule on. Infact there's 5 or so msn accounts running on my network and there's no interferance with msn.

I've never heard this problem. You might want to try the official http://www.emule-project.net forums, if there's a known problem it will be there.

At a guess it could be:
1) a Firewall problem, ie. you haven't got the ports open correctly or are limiting to a certain number of connections
2) Poor software/firewall that isn't allowing connections
3) Weird bandwdith usage. Cap your upload on emule about 10-15% below your line maximum. Doubt this will do anything but you might just be using too much bandwidth (it should be more noticable that you can browse the internet either if this is happening).
4) If you use a router, you might be opening too many concurrent connections

As i said, those are just guesses though.

4) Is why it happens to me

thanks for the help ive kinda fixed it, something to do with Kad.
When thats turned of msn works fine. this was a bit of help if anyone else runs into the same problem http://forum.emule-project.net/index.ph ... opic=80554
not gonna have as many sources now which will suck

turn Kad on for an hour or 2 till it finds sources then disconnect it as you are already in their queues by then

that guy used zone alarm and i can garantuee that was his problem, and he went on about it as though it wasn't the biggest piece of turd ever created by man


Please people, don't be under the delusion that that firewall should ever be installed under any condition. That goes to anyone toying with the idea of installing that piece of crap, zonealarm and anything with a highnumber of connections is just wrong in the head. Switch to a competant piece of software.

Although he pleads the fifth, the problem will have been his firewall software.