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[chris]

Hi Guys,

I'm new on this forum and also new amule user.
My problem is the following : I don't know how to set up my preferences.
I don't have any problem to get High ID.
 Uploading is also working fine but I cannot dowload or if I can it's only at 5 to 10 K.
An other thing is that when amule is working, my internet browser goes extremely slow.
I tried to check in different forums on how to set up amule but I couldn't find something really working.
Is there anything I could do to optimize it ?
Any idea or advise?
Thanks a lot for your help.

[ken]

Your two issues are addressed in our wiki.  See these two pages:

http://www.amule.org/wiki/index.php/AMule_is_slow
http://www.amule.org/wiki/index.php/AMule_makes_everything_slow

Please read them both.  Read them even though I'm about to give you the most likely short explanation.  

The reason that aMule causes other internet programs to be slow is that your upload limit is set to 0 (unlimited), or is set too high.  So, aMule is saturating your upload bandwidth and other programs can't get a byte in edgewise.  The solution is to set a reasonable upload limit somewhat below your line's capacity.

Check how much aMule is able to upload when it is only limited by your line's capacity.  This will tell you your line's upload capacity in kilobytes/sec.  (Your ISP may describe your line's capacity in kilobits/sec.  Because a byte equals 8 bits, the kilobits/sec value is 8 times larger than the kilobytes/sec value.  The amount aMule is able to use is somewhat lower than that because of communication overhead.)  Now, subtract about 10% of that and put the result in aMule's preferences -> Connection -> Bandwidth Limits -> Upload.  That will leave enough spare bandwidth for other programs to use.  If they are still too slow, you can experiment with lower upload limits.

This will solve at least one of the causes of your slow downloads, too.  When uploads are saturating your line, then aMule isn't able to promptly acknowledge data is has received for downloaded files.  So, the clients sending that data slow down or even stop sending it.

[chris]

Thanks Ken for your answer.
I already went to have a look on the 2 links you advised me to visit but it doesn't help.
I set up everything according to the recommendations but I still can download with very low rates around maximum 5K.

[thedude0001]

Then have a second look at http://www.amule.org/wiki/index.php/AMule_is_slow, especially at the second part. It says:

We hate to break this to you, but slow speeds aren't always due to bad aMule code or bad configuration. Some factors may include, but not limited to:

    * eD2k is a slow network; The eD2k network is one of the largest P2P networks in existance but its primary goal is archive availability. While you do get faster downloads with other popular networks you'll quickly find out that the eD2k network is home to millions of files you'll be unable to find on any other network.

You can't "make" amule fast. There's some things you can do (and you have already done as you say), the rest is about patience. It will get faster with time, but it might never be really fast (depending on how you define that).