hi guys me again.. im downloading Madhouse, i read some posts at the FAQ forum and i change that stuff you have to change to 1000 and 5000, but it is still really slow downloading at 8 kb.. do i have to change the port ?... please help !!!! what else do i have to do, by the way im using emule 0.45b.... thanks

First of all; this shouldn't be in this topic but in the FAQ section of the forum.

It's normal, you'll have to wait, wait and wait some more. The longer a session is, the faster you get to download so don't turn off your computer to gain speed.
You'll only have to open ports when you have a lowID i think.

Pretty much what D. said, do you have a high or low ID?

Are you behind a router / firewall (if so which one).

1. are you capping your upload? if so then you are barred from downloading at full speed. Set your upload to about 80% of your upload capacity.
2. how many files are you downloading? I can't really say emule downloads extraordinarily fast on singular downloads, it makes up its speed on a spread of files that are alive for a long time.
3. how many sources do you see for the files? The higher the source count, the faster that file, in theory, should be able to go.
4. Have you opened all the required ports? By default you must have a perfectly open connection to ports 4662 TCP and 4672 UDP
5. how long are you running the client for? you can't just keep rebooting or pop on for 2mins and expect to get anything downloading at a high speed. At a bare minimum, I'd say 24hrs of uncapped connection is needed to get things going properally, if your brand new to emule and have no credits file (its an upload reward system), it can take upto a week until you get things up and running. Normally its just a few days though. You have to really stay connected for substantially periods of time though. That's not to say you shouldn't ever close it down or anything, but ed2k is a heavy duty filesharer so it takes time. Once you've been using it for a while, you can turn it off and much quicker get back to full speed in an hour or so.

Beyond that some general advise is connect to a good server (highest number of users to lowerest ping ratio), set a number of downloads going, stay on the network for a couple of days.

The ed2k protocol is years old, its out of date and really isn't that hot at heart, but its made up for by the sheer wealth of files available. In contrast the faster networks don't even come close to providing this, so its a best compromise.

The connections thing is rudamentry, you'll never get over 100 concurrent connections unless you've got T1 or something. Changing that value doesn't do anything except in your mind (ie. red things go faster )

Purely as a matter of interest Spud, what are your Max connections and sources set to?

hi guys, ho do i know if im behind a router / firewall ?.. so far im 32 and 16kb (downlaod upload) and the limit for upload is 16, the download limit is not clicked. Im on the right path ? whichone is the best server ?

Defaults:
1000 and 400

I doubt anyone except the residents of Sweden/Japan/Korea/etc will need any higher values, because emule doesn't even establish that many. Its just something you say to humour people who complain about low speeds. Given the dynamic nature of the network, its a running joke that the person comes back and says "I've found setting it to 2000 gives me a faster connection"

The average number of connections I personally have is 178, and the peak is 242. That's no where near 1000

Cheap routers crash @ ~200 concurrent connections, btw.

Speaking of which, if you run SP2 you must apply the connections patch. Set it to about 300 (connections defined here are totally different to the ones effected by SP2, but they are related... SP2 refers to them as half open connections, and these effect when you initially connect out and try and establish connections).

You can tell if your hitting this limit by looking at your system logs, and your pc will bleep when it hits it



well you have a big box with router written on it or a peice of software saying "firewall" running is the easiest way to tell hehe. Anyway a router is a big (normally black) box with lots of ethernet ports in (that's network cable sized ports). You use a network card in your pc, plug it into the router using cat5 cable and then that provides an internet connection.

If you have one, you need to go into a browser and type:
192.168.1.1
in the address bar. Then look for NAT or firewall under settings. You then need to forward port 4662 and 4672 to ports 4662 and 4672 on your pc (enter your pc's ip).

If you don't know what a firewall is then you will have windows XP default one running. Click second button on my network neighbourhood>properties, then look at the connection for your internet connection, 2nd button-> properties, click the Advanced tab, then click settings and turn your firewall off.

If you run norton, or any other spuge like that, then you need to load it up and setup ports to open for emule; 4662 (TCP) and 4672 (UDP).

These are covered at nausia @ http://www.emule-project.net so I'm not going to repeat it (which is all I'd be doing), you need to read what it says about routers and firewalls there, it even gives step by step instructions per brand of router.



That's fine, aslong as your absolute max upload isn't 16, what is your advertised upload? 256KBit -> ~32kb/s (use 18-28kb/s), 128kb/s -> 16kb/s (use 11-14kb/s), given your uploading at 16 I'd assume you've got at least 256.


Whichever has the lowest ping and the highest number of users. Its normally one of the "DonkeyServer No"x or Razorback2, but it depends entirely on your connection and geographical location.

amazing... thanks