eMule P2P

[Nightwatch]

Hey guys,

I don't have too much time to play with settings on eMule, but once in a while I do. I remember downloads being very, very fast initially in the beginning of the year. Reading up on this forum I thought I'd just wait for things to get fixed and then it'll be back to normal speeds again. But time went by...

Somewhere along the line, probably while tweaking the UL/DL limits of eMule so I can get some browsing done in between, I must have thought that the UL is damaging the DL more than what is usually mentioned in Mule forums (i.e. leave a tiny bit of UL limited so the DL confirmations can get through).

So I installed NetLimiter and now, when I set it to limit eMule UL to 1k, I DL at 28k! I know how horribly wrong this is and how much it goes against the whole idea of P2P, but I'll be evil if it means I can now DL at 14 times what I was used to.

I have been running like this for a week now, to make sure it keeps on working this way before I mention it for in case it helps anyone else here.

Don't have a clue why this is, maybe one of you tech-like people could speculate.

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[Nightwatch]

Bugger, I wait a week to make a mention and what do you know! Sentech scheduled maintenance for Randburg CBD tower this morning at four. Tower was down for about half an hour (support mentioned it could take as long as two hours). Now things seem to be as good as it was initially. Will have to see if this lasts when others log on later this morning who may have been cut due to the down time...

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[Nightwatch]

Didn't last, but the method mentioned in the first post still works ;-)

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[Brolloks]

What client are you using? Overnet or the new eDonkey2000?

I've had really crappy downloads for the last 2 or 3 weeks now to say the least.
DL is stable for a while then it picks up and after an hour or so it starts o do the spiky thing.
Limiting upload to say 5K results in dl being auto limited to 20K, which is fine since I've never had more than a 14K spike, but it doesn't seem to make any difference as to dl speed.

How many sources do you have on the file/s that you're dl'ing?

 

[gripen]

well I have used emule with uploads at 10KB and downloaded at 10-12KB/sec consistently. I find that under good conditions (no cap on uploads) the two are not related. when things are crap slow then yes, upload limiting does have an effect. I found that emule download speed was network related ie. if there is bandwidth (and sources/slots/peers etc) it will go fast. Its that simple.

 

[gripen]

dont muck around. get eMuleplus (http://emuleplus.info) and remember to queue up many files since those queues will make it seem that speeds are low. I reckon if you were to chuck 10GB of files in the queue then you will see good speeds all the time. But any emule stuff is *very* sensitive to the condition of the network. If your connection is 4k slow (which can be typical in places) you will even get a lowid and no connections (whereas you are high normally and all files are showing sources). What I am saying is that emule only really works if your MyWi connection works as it should.

Limit your uploads to 10K and have unlimited downloads. set connections-per-5sec to 25. These worked well for me.

 

[gripen]

dont muck around. get eMuleplus (http://emuleplus.info) and remember to queue up many files since those queues will make it seem that speeds are low. I reckon if you were to chuck 10GB of files in the queue then you will see good speeds all the time. But any emule stuff is *very* sensitive to the condition of the network. If your connection is 4k slow (which can be typical in places) you will even get a lowid and no connections (whereas you are high normally and all files are showing sources). What I am saying is that emule only really works if your MyWi connection works as it should.

Limit your uploads to 10K and have unlimited downloads. set connections-per-5sec to 25. These worked well for me.

 

[Nightwatch]

I tried for weeks, the eMule mods eMulePlus and NeoMule. Really liked NeoMule, but after one gets used to all the extra twings and bangs, it's the same thing really. Back on eMule alone now. Any mod of eMule that alows too much DL for UL will be banned by other clients. Unless, of course, you DL the source code yourself and tinker with it, I guess. I set eMule to 10k DL limit so that I can set UL to no cap. Then use Netlimiter to limit the UL to 1k. As mentionen, I get 22 - 28k down this way. I don't DL files with many sources - unfortunatelu for me I want some rare stuff so I usually have about 8Gb in the queue of 15 to 20 files with very few sources.

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[Nightwatch]

Oh, just wanted to also mention - I think it was in eMulePlus that they used the ip-to-country tables to put a little flag next to all other clients one connects to. Never saw an SA flag though - probably very few people here using eDonkey clients... or at least, very few with the same taste in files as I. Now to lobby NET+ or PCFormat to put it on their cover disc ;-)

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