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skidd

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Is this normal?
« on: September 20, 2008, 11:51:53 AM »

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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Re: Is this normal?
« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2008, 12:09:04 PM »

Whoohoo!  Not sure what happened in the past hour, but I just went to check if the Kad status was still saying firewalled (after reading someone else's earlier post about that) and the download rate is suddenly at an all-time high of 52.6 Kb/s   ;D

On the other hand, in the status box for ED2K it says "not connected" even though ED2K and Kad are both checked off under prefs (they've always both showed as connected before).  Kad is no longer "behind a firewall" though.   

I know I'm missing something... but what?! 
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Re: Is this normal?
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2008, 09:07:22 PM »

If ed2k is not connected is because you are not connected to any server. Google for a good server list (google for server.met) and try connecting to any server. That way, ed2k will appear connected.

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