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[scottspot]

Can anyone please help me with raising my aMule ID.  

I've tried configuring my modem/router to use different ports but I still get this message when I do the TCP test:
Error: TCP port 25600 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

I'm using a powerbook with OS10.3  There is no firewall activated.  The modem I am using is a Netcomm NB1300+4 Modem/Router.  I have an ADSL connection with a 512download 128 upload.  My preferences are set to 100 in the upload connection widow

I've downloaded about 10 mp3s over the last few days and there seems to be a bit of upload action going on also.  The average download/upload speed is about 1 or 2 kB/s

Is there anything i've missed or is this all pretty normal?

[stefanero]

well with lowID such slow download is normal...
dont you have a handbook for the router?

[ken]

You seem to know what you're doing, so all I can do is review and hope something I mention helps you find the problem.  

Here's a page about setting up port-forwarding for your router so you can compare their instructions with what you did.  Make sure to see the part at the top about assigning your PowerBook a static IP address.

You have to:

• Pick two port numbers, one for TCP and one for UDP.  These numbers must be between 1024 and 65532.  The UDP number should not be equal to the TCP port number plus 3.  There's a different UDP port that is automatically assigned TCP+3.
  
• Configure aMule with those port numbers you chose.  Restart aMule for the changes to take effect.
• Configure your router to forward all three ports (TCP you chose, UDP you chose, UDP at TCP+3) to your PowerBook.  For some programs it is OK for the public port numbers and the private port numbers to be different, but for aMule they must be the same.  Don't forget the Save Settings and Reboot step.

That should be it.  Try the testport script again.

If that still doesn't work, then there must be a firewall or something that you're not aware of.

On another topic, I think you are using a bad value for your upload limit.  Your ADSL supports 128 kilobits up.  The setting in aMule's preferences is specified in kilobytes.  So, you want to set it to about 10 or 12.  (128 / 8 = 16, but 2.0.1 still has a problem where it actually uploads about 4 kBps more than you specify and you want to leave some available for other internet programs.  This has been fixed in CVS.)

I hope that helps.  

[scottspot]

Thanks for the info.  I'll give it a go.  The static IP part is what throws me.  I'm worried that i'll mess something up and won't be able to sort it out again!!

One last question.  If I assign a static IP address to my powerbook will that affect the way my partners pc connects to the internet through the same 4 port modem / router??

It's a steep learning curve when you're new to all this

 ?(

[thedude0001]

Somewhere in your router's config there should be a page about a "DHCP server". The DHCP server is the one who automagically assigns IP adresses to connected computers if they are set to search for a DHCP server (that's what your Mac currently does and what we want to deactivate). In the DHCP server config there should be an IP adress range defined which IP adresses are used for DHCP (something I#ve seen on a regular basis is 192.168.0.100 - 192.168.0.199).

One thing VERY IMPORTANT is that the same IP adress MUST NOT be assigned twice in a network. So it would be best to give your Mac a static IP adress that is outside of the range of what the DHCP server assigns (in my example 192.168.0.20 would be ok). Then the other computers connected to that router should not be affected at all...


As a sidenote:
If you change the settings of the Mac to use a static IP adress you usually have to set a "default gateway" and a "default DNS server" somewhere (sorry, no idea about MacOS). Set the IP adress of your router for both of these settings and your internet access should work as it did before

[stefanero]

btw its unix based and I think for checking your current settings you can still run

route
for finding out the gateway

and look at
/etc/resolv.conf
for the dns-server

[ken]

As thedude0001 said, configure the router so that it only uses a subset of the possible IP addresses for DHCP, and choose a static IP address that is outside of that subset.

In Mac OS X, the settings you are looking for are in System Preferences -> Network -> double-click Built-in Ethernet -> TCP/IP tab.  You may need to unlock these settings with the admin password.  You can probably just switch the "Configure IPv4" pop-up menu from "Using DHCP" to "Using DHCP with manual address" and enter the IP address you've chosen.  I think that means you will have a static IP address, but continue using DHCP to discover the subnet mask, router address, and DNS.

[scottspot]

Thanks again people.  

My head is about to explode with information so I reckon i'm ready to give it a go.

Cheers