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[steerpike]

hi all, just wondering if this is normal?  it takes forever to get things.  i've been online now for about 2 weeks.  

i have a 3Mbit/900Mbit DSL line, my ports are open, i don't have lowid (all the arrows are green everywhere), i've tried changing the ports to high numbers in case my isp speed-controls 4662 etc,  and nothing seems to help the download speed.  i've also tried lowering my ul speed to make sure i'm not throttling my connection.  the problem seems to be that i wait on queue for a very long time, even when a file is not particularly rare (137 sources).  i'm running the mandrake version of emule (v 1.2.6) on mandrake 9.1 on a fast (athlon 2400+) machine with lots of ram (512MB) and lots of hard disk space (40G).  any ideas?  

is it worth trying to complile 2.00rc5?  

thanks,

[Jacobo221]

Maye your ISP is limiting the bandwidth through the p2p ports. it's being a common issue on some countries. Change the default ports.
Greetings!

[deltaHF]

its worth to update to rc5 .. but u'll lose your credits cos of secure ident the first time

greets

[steerpike]

thanks.  i tried changing the ports but no luck.  the problem is that i'm waiting on queue foreever.  i can upload very fast no problem.  i just wait forever for parts.  currently i'm uploading 40kB/s on one file almost continuously but i get only one part per day.  grrrr.

thanks though.

[steerpike]

thanks.  i tried changing the ports but no luck.  the problem is that i'm waiting on queue foreever.  i can upload very fast no problem.  i just wait forever for parts.  currently i'm uploading 40kB/s on one file almost continuously but i get only one part per day.  grrrr.

thanks though.

deltaHF: thanks.  if you think the newer version will be much better at queuing, i'll try that.

best,

[deltaHF]

tell me your up limit (ISP side)

[steerpike]

Originally posted by deltaHF
tell me your up limit (ISP side)

my line is a 3Mbit/900 DSL line.  i have the ul limit in amule at 35kB/s with 7kB/s slots.  it runs
continuously at whatever ul speed i give it; no problem with uls.  the ul is not saturated since i am able to do normal websurfing and dling.  the problem seems to be with queuing.  i only get to download part of files very infrequently.

stats say i have
ul'd 34G and dl'd 6G.  

average rate:
ul: 33.84kB/s   dl: 4.63 kB/s

max rate:
ul: 97.22 kB/s  dl:  6.83 kB/s

thanks! (really appreciate your help)

[codewarrior2]

3M/900? 900 is a weird cap. Usually you will get like 3M/768 or so. I think it MAY be a problem with your modem or router(if you have one) with connections and oversaturation of their small tables, but would you post the make and model of your modem, router(if you have one) and other involved hardware (like a winmodem obviously you aren't using one with dsl but that kind of thing)

[steerpike]

hi codewarrior2,

Originally posted by codewarrior2
3M/900? 900 is a weird cap. Usually you will get like 3M/768 or so. I think it MAY be a problem with your modem or router(if you have one) with connections and oversaturation of their small tables, but would you post the make and model of your modem, router(if you have one) and other involved hardware (like a winmodem obviously you aren't using one with dsl but that kind of thing)

yes.  the cap is weird, but that's what they claim and what i seem to get when testing.

the modem/router is a speedstream 5200 through a natsemi nic.   i do have a winmodem which doesn't get used, but which i've been able to use by using the (no-cost, but non-free) drivers from the lovely folks at linuxant.

tell me if this helps: i am able to use bittorrent with very good results and largish (>~ 10) numbers of files.  i often get over 50kb/s ul/dl in bt. and sometimes over 100kB/s down.   i am able to ftp/scp at very high rates ~300kB/s

something weird happened today when i restarted amule: i moved the default ports really high (around 44000) and i got this huge dl speed ~ 180kB/s for about 1 min.  then it died again.  here's a conspiracy theory: can the isp dynamically detect edk activity and slow whatever port i'm doing it on?

best,

[codewarrior2]

I wouldn't put it past them. Some isp's can be total jackasses doing illmoral modifications of your bandwidth, but most likely they attempted to get absolved of all responsibility for basically anything whatsoever past what the law would be interpreted to insure, this is if your isps are like the ones in the U.S. Sooooo, what isp do you have? As well I would suggest you use different ports than the default, the easiest way I think is to just add a few thousand to the orginial ports, just change the thousands and ten-thousands digits, pick something up high randomly maybe around 30k or 40k, there is lots of random traffic in the unregistered port ranges for isps(I believe at least, it would make sense) as opposed to the cookie-cutter check your email and scratch your ass traffic that they are probably used to for port 80.

In conclusion, try what I suggested up there ^ and post back with the results.

[steerpike]

Thanks, codewarrior2,

tried the ports at 44662, etc. no good though.  same sh**, different pile.
isp is major canadian adsl.  i'll look around to see if others have any problems with edk and them, although i'm less and less convinced that it's a connection/isp thing.
the major thing seems to be waiting on queue for ever and ever, and then only being able to dl at 3kbs.  even for files which i'm ul'ing to people (at 30kbs!) with different parts than me.  maybe its just a credits thing.... ?(  arg.  

thanks,

[codewarrior2]

How often does your ip address change?

[steerpike]

Originally posted by codewarrior2
How often does your ip address change?

hi codewarrior2,

about once a day, i think.  not super often, not really sure.  i'll keep an eye on it to find out.  

i guess if the ip keeps changing i have to keep reconnecting to sources and lose my queue position, eh?
 X(
hmm....

thanks! i'll check this out.  (not sure what to do about ithough, except change isps.  i'll ask around in other forums to see how other people are doing with bell sympatico in canada.)

cheers,

[codewarrior2]

No. Your hash is based on your ip. When your ip changes, you lose all the credits you had accumulated with various clients.

[steerpike]

thanks cw2,

i see.

i've set up a crontab to see how often the ip changes.  see if this is the problem.

thanks a bunch,