Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[eltorten]

i am running amuler 2.1.3 on an apple mac g5 with osx 10.4.8. my isp is a local company using an alvarion wireless network, meaning i have external antenna wich is connected to an indoor unit wich then connects to my mac via my internal ethernet port. i don't have a router, but i opened my ethernetport 2 to share my connection with a laptop using windows xp running emule, dont know which version though.anyway, i disconnected that machine and it does not make any difference at all.

i am running netbarrier x4 allowing traffic on ports 4662, 4665, 4668, 4672, 28765, 80 and 23 (the results of desperate attempts to get high id). i also generally allowed amule outgoing connections. however i have disabled firewall altogether, with and without restarting my whole system, checked various forums on the topic but all i found were topics relating to routers.
interesting here is that my firewalls log lists a number of outgoing connections on port 4662 and other conducted by amule...?

30/10/2006, 15:52:27   172.21.41.199   cable74a015.usuarios.retecal.es   TCP   4404   4662   S   en0   Outgoing connection
30/10/2006, 15:53:08   172.21.41.199   214.234.11.90   TCP   57978   4662   S   en0   Outgoing connection
and so on. quite a bit of traffic..

now i checked my isp's website and i found 2 statements re internet use and p2p:

1.
" What ports is Fastcom blocking ?
For security purposes, Fastcom have blocked traffic on the following ports:
TCP/UDP 135
TCP/UDP 137, 138 and 139
TCP/UDP 445
TCP 593
UDP 1434
TCP 1433
TCP lpd
These ports are known to be used by a various viruses. e.g. port 1433 is used by the Slammer virus. "

2.
"Are there restrictions or limits ?
There are no unusual restrictions imposed apart from the normal terms and conditions associated with any internet connection. Please review the subscriber agreement for full details. Fastcom Broadband do reserve the right to treat certain types of traffic with lower priority on the network to ensure the majority of users enjoy the best available speeds as far as possible. Such lower priority traffic may include file-sharing applications such as Kazaa, Morpheus, and similar for example. "

furthermore i have conducted the tcp port test with the following result:

"Error: TCP port 4662 is unavailable. Make sure your firewall or router is allowing/forwarding this TCP service port and your ED2K client is running (i.e. aMule, eMule).
Detailed Error Message
TCP Error 111 Connection refused

Explanation
The port is available for connections but a connection was refused meaning there is nothing listening on that port. This most likely means you can use ED2K but your client is not currently running. Try running this test again with an ED2K client running to make sure you can really establish a connection. No info available; this TCP error probably indicates a problem with the networking on your system (i.e. the TCP/IP stack)."

finally, the kad info section in amule tells me that it is not running because it is firewalled.

i am at my wits end and now i am putting my hope into this forum.

by the way, for any irish user: i am in sligo and my isp is fastcom.please don't let me if you are out there and have a solution for my problem.

[lionel77]

This is weird. I assume you double-checked that the tcp port in the aMule preferences matches the one that you entered into the connection tester?

It almost sounds like your ISP might be filtering ed2k packets. If such a filtering was port rather than packet based you could try changing the tcp port to some random port.

Maybe someone else has better ideas?

[eltorten]

yes, i did check that several time. i also tested random ports and all returned with the same result.

another bizarre occurrance is that my connection speed plummitted from 12 - 17 kbs down to <8kbs literally over night. nothing has changed in my setup before and after and i had low id all along. this happened about a week ago.

its beginning to look like that my isp has blocked the kad network. what i dont understand is why my firewall still logs kad connections...

furthermore i dont really under stand the tcp/ip stack deal fromn tcp port test result. is there anything i can do to check this out?

[eltorten]

i just talked to my isp and the technician said that there are no ports blocked for p2p. however, since i am part of a wireless network with a community only a certain bandwidth is allocated to p2p which i have to share with other users, meaning that if there few people using p2p my download rates would be higher and vice versa.

alas, this does not explain why i cannot receive high id, since my iso is not blocking any tcp/udp ports other than stated above and i have no firewall running either that is blocking any ports. is there anything with in my network configurations that is blocking kad? i have apple firewall disabled..

services enabled are:

personal file sharing
windows sharing
personal web sharing (ethernet port 2 used by a win computer running emule 0.46 with equally lame rates and blocked kad..)
printer sharing

disabled are:

remote login
ftp access
apple remote desktop
remote apple events
xgrid

[eltorten]

by the way.

the latest amule 2.2.0 which i downloaded last night does not start on my system... ?(

[wuischke]

Originally posted by eltorten
by the way.

the latest amule 2.2.0 which i downloaded last night does not start on my system... ?(

Read the instructions in the Mac-aMule-CVS-thread. (Where's the download) You have to add the flag '-iwouldmarrymymule' in order to start aMule CVS.

[eltorten]

thats sorted but it doesnt help my  original problem.. looks like you guys dont really have a solution for me either.  ;(  pity that is...

[eltorten]

Well. looks like i am the only one submitting to that thread. :]

anyway, i have sorted the problem with the low id and it had to do with the user account i have with my isp. for those guys who are  in a similar position (set up everything right but still low id and no kad) see if you have a public ip, because without you can not be located by other users without it. 8o
 
good luck..

[lionel77]

I'm glad you got things worked out. Sorry for not further replying to your posts, I just didn't have a good idea either what you could try next.

Anyway, thanks a lot for posting your solution (often users stop posting to the forums once the problem is solved). I didn't realize that some ISPs still gave out non-public IPs. Well, this is good to know if someone can't seem to find out why he is lowID even though everything is set up properly.