TBH 4

Polityk · **Posted:** Thu Oct 30, 2003 6:13 pm **Post subject:** TBH 4

Definitely the best mod I've ever had. My downloads are 20% faster then before, good friend slot support (I hated it in Sivka), very comfortable and nice, with many useful features. Hope it is stable - the previous versions of TBH weren't. If it is, I love it. And those friend slots compensate for the lack of community feature quite nicely.

However, I noticed one strange thing, namely - when I mess with friend slots, my downloads drop significanly and come back to normal after some time. Has anyone noticed this?

I'm using Ultra AMD version.

satan · **Posted:** Thu Oct 30, 2003 6:21 pm **Post subject:**

I'm using vanilla.

And about the friend slot activation slowing down downloads, yes I have that bug also.

What I found, Make your friend slots, close emule, then fire it up again.

Downloads go fine right away, and the friend slots stay.

Max I could get to stay like that were 12.

Bassline · **Posted:** Thu Oct 30, 2003 6:56 pm **Post subject:**

i think the friend slot works against you as if you check your statistics window it has ratio's per session with friend slots excluded.....so basically while you are uploading in slot 1 for the friend slot all that is transferred doesn't go on to your up/down ratio giving you less credits for download (i think)

Polityk · **Posted:** Sat Nov 01, 2003 12:49 am **Post subject:**

Aaaaargh, it's crashed again. I don't know why, all those Blackhands keep crashing around twice a week. The only mods that were perfectly stable on my machine were sivka and athlazan. This sucks, I really like TBH. :evil:

Bassline · **Posted:** Sat Nov 01, 2003 10:33 am **Post subject:**

Polityk wrote:

Aaaaargh, it's crashed again. I don't know why, all those Blackhands keep crashing around twice a week. The only mods that were perfectly stable on my machine were sivka and athlazan. This sucks, I really like TBH. :evil:

have you tried the vanilla version?......that might stop the crashes

Polityk · **Posted:** Sat Nov 01, 2003 3:18 pm **Post subject:**

On the forum they say there's a memleak that causes memory overload after some time. This woudl fit the pattern, it usually crashes after 1.5-2 days after launching, never earlier.

satan · **Posted:** Sat Nov 01, 2003 3:23 pm **Post subject:**

I never have mule running for more than 30 hours.

Craftee · **Posted:** Sat Nov 01, 2003 3:29 pm **Post subject:**

I never have mule switched off
and It doesn't crash - using Sivka 10b5 on emule 30b
It's working nice and I am not changing it now unless someone proves that there is better available..!

Using that VLC to check incoming files can seriously slow my comp down but I just close the prog with taskmanager (it's usually at 100 cpu usage) but once it's closed VLC down everthing is hunky dory

Craftee :wink:

Polityk · **Posted:** Sat Nov 01, 2003 3:33 pm **Post subject:**

Sivka is the most stable mod in the world, it never crashes on my computer, but I like TBH more.

Bassline · **Posted:** Sat Nov 01, 2003 3:49 pm **Post subject:**

the only time i switch black hand v3b off is when i want to reboot after a new installation of something or my ISP is mucking up......usually my client is on 24/7 and very rarely crashes

satan · **Posted:** Sat Nov 01, 2003 4:17 pm **Post subject:**

Well, I'm going to install 2000 soon.

Trying to get my friend to lend me his HD.

graag · **Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2003 3:54 pm **Post subject:**

Bassline wrote:

i think the friend slot works against you as if you check your statistics window it has ratio's per session with friend slots excluded.....so basically while you are uploading in slot 1 for the friend slot all that is transferred doesn't go on to your up/down ratio giving you less credits for download (i think)

No, because everyone keeps statistics only on how much he received and not how much he sent (it would be far too easy to cheat) so it really doesn't matter. The other side doesn't know if those bytes they're receiving are arriving through normal or special (friend-slot) channel.

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2003 4:31 pm **Post subject:**

kademlia is quite a nice client despite the huge ram usage I'm getting

Tis the new protocol implemented into emule, works pretty neat high download speeds and solid upload although inherently there will be extra overhead in this version.

BHM i installed so I can add new cat. and organise the downloads, then copy the ini file to official client

Polityk · **Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2003 6:02 pm **Post subject:**

Btw, is it the proper name? I found at leas 6 versions - "kademlia", "kamdelia", "kamedlia" etc, even on the official eMule site. :lol:

I think I'll wait 'till it leaves beta stage.

Bassline · **Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2003 7:01 pm **Post subject:**

Polityk wrote:

Btw, is it the proper name? I found at leas 6 versions - "kademlia", "kamdelia", "kamedlia" etc, even on the official eMule site. :lol:

I think I'll wait 'till it leaves beta stage.

as far as i knew i thought it was "Kademlia" but since we are all dyslexic typists it could be anything from above :lol:

d0c · **Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2003 8:29 pm **Post subject:**

can anyone find out what mod is the best to use? and give link....

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2003 8:38 pm **Post subject:**

d0c wrote:

can anyone find out what mod is the best to use? and give link....

unfortunately that's almost impossible to answer I'm afraid, I guess that's why so many mods exist.

I think sivka and athlazan are good mods. TBH has easily the best features but is very buggy.

Kademlia Emule finds sources very fast and you can get quite high speeds for single files, but there's no accurate way to check if any are faster than the other. General rule of thumb, the emule mod is no faster than the base it is built upon. The modders are forbidden to touch the protocol side ie. develop leech mods, and even then any tweaks will only give small download speed increase. Source finding abilities however I have noticed is better in sivkas than most others.

That's on the basis of the versions I've tried. I am currently using kademlia as stated

Bassline · **Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2003 8:45 pm **Post subject:**

d0c wrote:

can anyone find out what mod is the best to use? and give link....

There is no "best mod"...it's whatever works best for you :wink:

.....we all have our opinions as to what is the best but if there was one ultimate mod we'd all be using the same one instead of making our own decisions

IMO The black Hand mod (v3b or v4) is "the best"...but thats my opinion not everyones

http://theblackhand.sourceforge.net

http://www.emule-mods.de/?mods=theblackhand

Polityk · **Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2003 9:04 pm **Post subject:**

spudthedestroyer wrote:

I think sivka and athlazan are good mods. TBH has easily the best features but is very buggy.

It's not VERY buggy. It has some bugs, but if you restart it from time to time it's stable and gives very, very high downloads. See above - some ppl are using it and experience no probs at all.

Sivka is very stable and also has decent features, although far from the newest TBH.

Bassline · **Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2003 9:10 pm **Post subject:**

no buggy bits for me in TBH for a long time now

i think any buggy issues are down to individuals PC's and not the actual mod performing badly :wink:

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