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[kptainfilou]

Hello to all, this is my first post ! ;(

First of all, i would like to thanks all the developpers and people working for us to make amule work better and better even for simple users like me !!!  :baby:

Having said that, i would know how to be shure that the UDP ports are open in my config, and if not, can a gentle member explain to me how i can forward these ports as well as the TCP on Mac OS 10.3.9 ?

Thanx in advance for any reply !

[ken]

Hi.  Welcome.  Thanks for the kind words.

Hmm.  I don't think we have a UDP port tester, yet.

Anyway, forwarding ports is something done by your router.  So, it's not so important which OS you're using, but rather which model router you have.  Usually, I direct people to this site: http://portforward.com/routers.htm.  For those parts which are done in the OS, that site tends to use Windows for the examples, but most of the instructions are OS-independent.

If you still have questions after looking there, come back here and ask.  

[kptainfilou]

Thank you Ken for your kind reply  

Since i'm a very unexperienced and simple user of amule, i think the problem i have comes for having difficulties configuring my router.

In case it's a freebox v4 wich could be considered like a sagem router although i'm not using it like a router. I'm using only one Mac wich is well enough  

Everything seems to run normal BUT i'm not satisfied with my upload speed wich is set to 20 kpbs but rarely reaches that speed.

I've also problems with the search and the client queue.

I have to say that i'm running the firewall in 10.3.9. I'm running the latest CVS of amule.

Any advice would be welcome

[lionel77]

I'm a little confused -- is your amule TCP port already successfully forwarded and you already getting a highID?
If not you can use our connection tester while you are changing the router settings to see whether the TCP port is properly forwarded or not.
Once you've taken care of the TCP port, setting up the UDP ports should be rather straight-forward.

[kptainfilou]

Thank you lionel77 for your advices.

Yes my TCP port runs ok with port tester.

I'm just worried (but may be i'm too anxious in life  :]) about the settings of the UDP ports.

My say is : the better you share the better you download  

If you have some advice on this, i'm willing to listen  

[lionel77]

If the TCP port is setup correctly that's already very good.

I just realized that part of your uncertainty might come from using the built-in firewall of Mac OS. Frankly, I've never used it, so I don't know how hard it is to open UPD ports. Unfortunately, I can't test it right now, because I have other firewall software running (namely BrickHouse).
If you suspect that your firewall is reducing amule's performance you might wanna try disabling it for a day or so. A Mac is already very secure without a firewall, so this is not a big security risk. Plus, since you are using a router, only the ports you have specified there get forwarded to the Mac anyway, which is in principle the same as what a firewall does.

[Dommy]

I agree. I've disabled the internal firewall, too and haven't had any issues so far.
I'm behind a router, too!

[kptainfilou]

hi !

lionel77 and Dommy, i followed your advice and all seams to run ok so far, the firewall is down and it goes well so i guess that was the right thing to do.

Nevertheless i have to say that amule crashes everytime a download is complete regardless the size/type of the file, that's very annoying since amule is made to stay connected the max time  

But i guess you're aware of that and you're doing your best to correct the problem  

Thank you for taking the time with me  

[lionel77]

Thanks for the feedback, kptainfilou.

I have stability issues with amule cvs under 10.3 but I don't think it's related to downloads becoming complete.
In order to fix the crash you are getting we need to get a so called backtrace from you. Unfortunately, the wiki is down right now, but I wanted to post more Mac specific instructions anyway. I'll try to get this out later today, so you can provide us with a backtrace and the problem might be history soon.

[kptainfilou]

No problem at all, i'm waiting for your instructions !

[lionel77]

Took me a bit longer than expected, but here they are:
http://forum.amule.org/thread.php?threadid=7670&boardid=49&sid=