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amule and internet
« on: January 24, 2006, 07:45:15 AM »
Please please help me...
I can't understand why after 1,5 hour of amule downloadinding it disconnects from internet.
I have a simple modem with adsl connection and i have just tried to change settings of amule...but anyway after 60-70 minutes  the download and upload fall slowly down to zero and i loose the connection.
Is there someone can help and tell why?
Thanks, bye
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Re: amule and internet
« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2006, 09:29:00 AM »
hmmm try to lower 2 settings and see if it helps

1st
max connections / 5 secs (under tweaks)

2nd
max connections (under connection)
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Re: amule and internet
« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2006, 08:36:37 PM »
i tried as you told me...but nothing to do!
I really can't understand:  do i have to return to lime wire?
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Re: amule and internet
« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2006, 09:23:16 PM »
this looks more like a mac problem to me...since amule does not disconnect on linux, but I read in the Mac forum already a couple times this problem,
maybe search there a litte
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Re: amule and internet
« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2006, 11:47:40 PM »
I had this kind of problems.
I solved it by limiting my upload.
I have an adsl1024 connection

here are my settings:
down 100
up 13 (minimum 12 to be allowed a good download I think)
slots 4

I must say that:
amule 2.0 would disconect with Mandrake10.1
amule 2.3 would not disconect with Mandrake10.1
amule 2.3 would disconect with Mandriva 2006
do not ask me why this is!!!


so I went back to Mdk10.1 and had some good sessions with good download rates.
(I am just starting with amule2.1)


I am affraid you may have to try some settings yourself and see how it goes.
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Re: amule and internet
« Reply #5 on: January 27, 2006, 11:45:23 AM »
hy ...in the forum i found this thread that i report. Maybe the problem is in the socket of tiger:
 

= aMule CVS Binaries for Mac OS X =-   
         
New official aMule binaries are typically released only every couple months. To profit from improvements that have been made to the code in the meantime, users normally would have to compile aMule themselves. Many Mac users, however, lack the time, experience or both in order to do this.
The goal of this thread is to provide users with ready-to-use aMule binaries that incorporate all the new features and improvements of the most recent aMule cvs code. Since these are snapshot builds, there is a chance that they are somewhat less stable than the official releases, but I usually go through a reasonable amount of testing to make sure that the versions I post here don't exhibit any obvious problems.

In addition to providing you with the most recent features & fixes, these builds also allow you to give valuable feedback that will help us to improve aMule even further. So please feel free to share your comments on the forum.


A special note to Tiger (10.4) users:
Mac OS X 10.4.0 to 10.4.2 contain a bug in the sockets that causes p2p applications including aMule to get stuck after a while. This issue has been fixed in the 10.4.3 update, so please make sure you are running the most recent version of Tiger.
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Re: amule and internet
« Reply #6 on: January 27, 2006, 04:32:06 PM »
If you are running 10.4.4, then you are not affected by the above bug. So that can't be the problem.

In your pm to me you wrote that "your Mac is disconnected from the internet". Is that true? In other words, do Safari and any other program that requires the web stop working, too? Do you then have to reset or turn off/on your adsl modem? If all this was the case that would mean that there is too much strain on your modem, so that it eventually 'breaks down'.

Try changing the following settings (just for testing purposes):
- turn off Kad (Preferences -> connections)
- limit your upload to 7k/s (Preferences -> connections)
- change "Max Sources per file: Hard Limit" to 150 (Preferences -> connections)
- change "Connection Limits: Max Connections" to 50 (Preferences -> connections)
- change "Max new connections / 5 secs" to 5 (Preferences -> Core tweaks)

Then let aMule run for a couple hours and report back the results. :)
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Re: amule and internet
« Reply #7 on: January 29, 2006, 10:36:26 PM »
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redline wrote in a pm to lionel77:

hy...i tried to lower the settings as you told me but nothing to do: the connection to internet falls anyway, safari is stopped and i have to reset the modem to reconnect.
It's strange because i have tried to install Emule in my old pc windows and it goes ok!
It's seem something like incompatibility between mac and amule...is it possible?
Very weird. The settings I gave you are really conservative and should prevent your modem from being knocked out by too many connections. A large number of people run aMule on their Macs with much more aggressive settings and without similar problems, so I think there must be something to your particular setup that is causing this issue.

I understand your Mac is connected directly to the adsl modem without a router in between, right? Could you tell us the name of the modem?

Did run aMule 2.0.3 before or did you start using aMule after 2.1.0 came out? If you used 2.0.3 before, did you experience the same issues?

Are you running any other programs that potentially produce a high network load (particularly other p2p apps)?



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this looks more like a mac problem to me...since amule does not disconnect on linux, but I read in the Mac forum already a couple times this problem,
maybe search there a litte
Just to avoid confusion, I don't think anybody else is experiencing this kind of problem. There are some recent reports on Kad going south after a while on some machines, but that seems to be an unrelated issue and also not mac-specic.
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Re: amule and internet
« Reply #8 on: January 30, 2006, 10:34:11 PM »
hy lionell
...yes i have a modem and not a router: " Starmodem Aethra ".
Now i had downloaded amule 2.0.3 and it's more than 3 hours that it is running  but whith  low settings you told me and obviously without KAD.
When amule is working i do'nt use any other program.
There's one thing i did'nt tell you before: i read in Emule guide that is right to put in download 20 or 25 file at the same time to obtain 2000-3000 sources; so since now i did it!
But now i tried to download only 6 files...it is right or wrong?
Anyway my downloading speed doesn't go over 15...better than nothing if goes on without disconnetting!

these are my actual settings:

Line capacities:   down=512      Up=30

Bandwiths Limits:    down=28     up=7        

slot=4                    Max connections= 50      Max Sources  150      Max Connections /5sec= 5

What could i try to do to increase the speed of downloadin in your opinion?

Thanks a lot
By , Andrea
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Re: amule and internet
« Reply #9 on: January 30, 2006, 11:08:32 PM »
Decrease the upload.
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Re: amule and internet
« Reply #10 on: January 30, 2006, 11:30:49 PM »
the upload of bandwiths or the upload of line capacities??
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Re: amule and internet
« Reply #11 on: February 01, 2006, 02:14:03 PM »
Bandwidth limits.

Line capacities are used only for statistics (to generate the scales of the graphs), they do not alter network behaviour.

But that depends on your connection, what is it? 7 seems to be low enough. As a general rule, leave 5k or more of bandwidth out of your real upload bandwidth or you wont be able to download.

e.g.:

ADSL 256/128:
Download: 25
Upload: 7

ADSL 1024/600
Download: 100
Upload: 55 (maybe less)

For higher speeds you will probably need to leave more upload bandwidth space.

Cheers!
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me too...
« Reply #12 on: April 24, 2006, 02:39:32 PM »
Hi,

I've had the same issue (at least it looks very similar) as described above.
I have an ADSL 512k (both up and down, that seems to be the way in China) connection, with a ZTE ZXDSL831 routing modem, with NAT enabled (I know it works, I usually get high ID, and the connection used to work fine, and now works well for limited time).

Whenever I'm using amule (or shareaza, or emule, I've tried those ones as well) my internet connection seems to be cut at random intervals.
When this happens, I can't even ping my router, basically nothing goes out.

I've tried the conservative settings above (DL=28k, UL=7k, slot=4, max new connections/5 secs=5, max connections=25, max sources/file=150), but that doesn't change much.
It does not seem to be linked with DL speed, as ftp/http DLs work very well (often over 60kB/s).

Could this be linked to the NAT table being saturated ?

Thanks for any advice !

Laurent
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Re: amule and internet
« Reply #13 on: April 24, 2006, 03:53:56 PM »
yup it could be the Nat-table being filled...I heared taht a lot from dlink routers aswell, which are basically just crappy for p2p so it could be the same issue with your router aswell

have you tryed a firmware update?
or maybe try to google for your router model and p2p maybe someone else asked taht aswell somewhere ;)
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