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English => aMule Help => Topic started by: Bingefeller on January 22, 2006, 12:14:54 AM

Title: Settings advice
Post by: Bingefeller on January 22, 2006, 12:14:54 AM

Just was wondering if someone could check over my settings below and tell me if I have aMule set up correctly to get optimal download speeds.  At the moment they're not terribly fast and I only get like 1 or 2 sources for a file:

(http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/9181/picone8ve.th.jpg) (http://img63.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picone8ve.jpg)


(http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/1251/pictwo0ck.th.jpg) (http://img23.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pictwo0ck.jpg)



Any advice or comments would be much appreciated.  I have 2mb internet and my upload speed is about 30kb/s.  Download speed runs at about 238kb/s.  I'm connected to the Razorback 2.0 network.

Thanks!

Binge.

Title: Re: Settings advice
Post by: lionel77 on January 22, 2006, 01:15:04 AM

If your line allows for 30k/s upload I'm not sure why you set your upload limit to only 5k/s. Because of this, your download limit is artificially limited to 15k/s. I would set it the upload limit to 20-25k/s. Then set your download limit to 200k/s or so.

In order for aMule to utilize your upload bandwidth efficiently you need about 4-5 upload slots, so set "slot allocation" to your upload limit divided by 5 (e.g. if upload limit is 25k/s then use 5k/s for slot allocation).

I would set "Connection limits-> max connections" to something like 100-150.

Otherwise, I'd say your settings look fine. :)

Oh, the sources per file primarily depend on how popular a given file is. Try downloading a more popular file to see if you get more sources.

Title: Re: Settings advice
Post by: Bingefeller on January 22, 2006, 01:53:20 AM

Thanks again, Lionel, it's working pretty good now.

Title: Re: Settings advice
Post by: Bingefeller on January 23, 2006, 08:03:34 PM

Just to say that I haven't changed anything and I've gone to reconnect with aMule and I've got a low ID again.  Any ideas guys?  I have got a download speed of 7.3kb/s on a file and also people are uploading.  I guess that this is an error of some kind.

Title: Re: Settings advice
Post by: lionel77 on January 24, 2006, 02:06:07 AM

Since only your Kad connection is affected (i.e. you are still highID on the ed2k server connection -- remember the two arrows? :) ) I think you are experiencing the Connection to Kad lost issue (http://forum.amule.org/thread.php?threadid=8604). As far as I can tell that should not affect your download rates (as long as you still connect to an ed2k server).

So you should be able to safely ignore this issue until somebody has figured out how to fix it. :)


EDIT:
If you have the impression that your download rates drop once the issues with Kad start, you can also try to disable Kad (aMule Preferences -> General) and see if that makes a difference.