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[KyroMaster]

When I use eMule the first upload starts about 5 seconds after I start it, and after a minute I´ve about 30 people in my upload queue.
Now I moved, and I´m using aMule. I´ve disabled the extended UDP port because I´m behind a firewall and I can´t forwardf the ports.
When I run aMule for an hour, I´ve about 4 people in my upload list and no one in the queue.
I can´t imaging that this is normal even if I´ve a lowid. Searches should reach me and I know some files I share are really popular. What could be the reason?

[wardevil]

Do you use the same ports on emule and amule?

Cheers....

[KyroMaster]

I´ve set the aMule ports to another one because the default port is blocked here in my new home. Does it matter which port I use (If they aren´t reacable from the outside anyway)?

[ken]

KyroMaster, when you're low-id, the server will only hand you out as a source to other people connected to that same server.  Similarly, clients won't forward you through source exchange.

So, it is much more important to be on a popular server (Razorback, Donkey Server No1 and No2).  Also, to a signficant extent, it doesn't matter how popular the files you are sharing are, it matters more which files you are trying to download.  If you are downloading files with many sources, you will connect to those many sources, and they will be able to see and queue up for any files you are sharing which interest them.

[KyroMaster]

What´s with the kad network. To which extent can I use it with a lowid?

[KyroMaster]

Originally posted by ken
Similarly, clients won't forward you through source exchange.
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Why is this like that? IMHO it would make to give IPs of other HighID clients to me so I can connect to them.

[ken]

HighID clients are exchanged.  They are given to LowID clients as well as HighID clients.  What I was trying to say is that clients don't tell each other about you, a LowID client.  That's because, in the general case, the client they tell can't connect to you.  They'd have to be connected to the same server as you, in which case they should already learn about you from their server.

As for Kad, I'm LowID and Kad works for me.  The firewall that I'm behind supports stateful UDP, so that when I send a UDP request from a port to another computer, then that computer is allowed to reply to my UDP port for a short period of time.  If your firewall has the same feature, then you should enable the extended UDP port and it will work for both ed2k and Kad.

Also, I had to manually download a nodes.dat file.  Kad didn't bootstrap properly.

[KyroMaster]

Where can I get an nodes.dat from? I´m behind a NAT (which includes a firewall by design). Could stateful UDP be supported here or is it in general not possible?
What disadvantages do I have when the extended port is disabled?
Thanks for your help

[lionel77]

Originally posted by KyroMaster
Where can I get an nodes.dat from?

Ever heard of Google?
http://download.overnet2000.de/nodes.dat

[thedude0001]

Originally posted by KyroMaster
Could stateful UDP be supported here or is it in general not possible?

Yes, it can be. If it really is depends on your NAT device.

[KyroMaster]

Is there any way to find it out (without asking the admin *g)?

[thedude0001]

Finding out the exact name of it and start googling / RTFM? Or google for some other application which would need stateful UDP (and that your admin would approve of) and ask the admin

[ken]

KyroMaster, you mention in another thread that global search works (gives you more results than local search).  Well, global search is done via UDP.  So, your firewall supports stateful UDP.

[KyroMaster]

I retested it and it seems that the global search doesn´t return more results than a lokal one, so I guess stateful UDP isn´t supported