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skidd

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Is this normal?
« on: September 20, 2008, 12:15:23 PM »
Let me being by saying hats off to you guys for writing such a great app - not sure where we Mac 10.4 users would be without you - probably eD2k-less anyway and that's just no fun!  AND, thanks for writing such *helpful* help pages!  After pouring over those pages and following all the instructions, I'm beginning to think that maybe it's just normal to have a download speed of 5 Kb/s with uploads capped at 10 Kb/s... is it?   I'm running aMule on a new MacBook, with cable modem & wireless router.   

I really have no idea what a normal download speed should be... I gather eD2k files are slower than bittorrents, but how much slower, typically?  When I download bittorrents using Transmission I sometimes get total download rates of more than 200 Kb/s, although 60-80 Kb/s is more typical (with upload speed capped at 20 Kb/s).

Even though I have high ID and my max upload is set at 10 Kb/s, my total aMule download speed generally stays well below 10 Kb/s.  I've played with the max upload and download settings, assigned different port numbers, set up a static IP address and forwarded the ports, etc but I'm not having much luck... although now, if I raise the max upload speed to 30, the download speed will sometimes hover around 15 Kb/s.  But from everything I've read, the download speed should be 3 to 4 x faster than the upload speed. In my case, it's usually the other way around!   

Any ideas what else I could do that I might not have tried yet? 

Thanks!   :)

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wuischke

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Re: Is this normal?
« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2008, 01:44:03 PM »
The total download at a time X equals the total upload at a time X. (That's why bittorrent encourages you to seed until a 1:1 ratio has been reached.)

Therefore if anyone downloads more than he uploads, someone else is uploading more than downloading.

This behaviour is however encouraged using the credit system. When you upload to someone, you get credit points which will make you advance faster in the other persons upload queue. You will notice that after uploading some time (and downloading from the same persons), your download will be higher as well. More so if you upload more.

Apart from that there are no advices I could give you.
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skidd

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Re: Is this normal?
« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2008, 10:42:03 PM »
Thanks for the tip!  Things are improving -- I let it run all day with no cap on the upload speed, and now when I cap it at 10 Kbs, my download speed is about 25 Kb/s.  It might be worth adding that info to the help pages... i.e., that it may take a while (several days with 25+ files in the transfer window) to reach the ratio of 3 or 4:1 (download: upload speeds) so noobs like myself don't spend hours messing with their computer settings trying to fix it. I read about credits, but I don't remember reading that lack of credits will result in a really low download speed initially.

Thanks again!  You guys rock!
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