Yeah, simply "opening" the ports is not enough if you have several computers, smartphones and IoT devices in your home network. The router must forward the data packets to the correct device... @ghost, aren't you using VPN anyway!?

It's kind of ironic that "Step-by-Step eMule Setup" is 41 pages ...

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did everything, still works (a note to future people who read this, for me, MAC address in cmd the name of the MAC address is "Physical Address"
I also had a lot of different options, wireless, bluetooth etc, and ethernet to ethernet - I picked that one, looked like most logical one, even ...

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ok, first, I don't have "DHCP Reservation" mentioned when in cmd typed what you wrote. That means I have to go harder route, ok:
I open the router setup (like previous time, and it is Ubee WI-FI modem).
Under LAN I do have DHCP, nut onlu things there are:
DHCP Start IP ... (I can input ...

I live in a country where piracy is not focus.
By that do you mean that piracy is not common? Or that the government and copyright lawyers do not focus on it? Or that it is not common because it is restricted and prevented by oversight and regulation? A note of caution for your personal ...

If your router and the webpage show different public IP - It is difficult to get HighID, unless VPN or ask your ISP to get 'port forwarding' supported.


I followed your instructions and checked, an both IP are the same, meaning I can get HighID

So what is the next step?


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Is lowID working already? If not, try to get lowID working first. It should work pretty much out-of-the-box. Incoming connections and router tweaking is not needed.

Once the basics is working, you can try the advanced stuff.

There are many users who cannot get highID working at all, because ...

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I followed your instructions, and I have lowID. I tested by downloading some picture, and it works.

I did tried with 20 of diferent files, from smallest word files to 1 Gb films, but everything is "status-waiting"
I am new to eMule so I don;t know what I can change so files start ...

ghost wrote: Sat Aug 02, 2025 6:29 pm
You have to allow incoming connections for the eMule.exe in the WIndows Firewall. Then open/forward the TCP and UDP ports in your router (the ones in your emule settings under "connections").

can we do this step by step?

thank you for time you set aside to help me :)

I think eMule is working fine, and my problem is flow of information - I am disconected somewhere. Ie, somewhere I have something that is stopping flow of information

Any ideas what I can do to check it?
I bet it is a simplest thing :) But you have to ...

Welcome to FLM! I think I have an idea about some of the problems. But first things first:
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Ok, I deinstalled the program, deleted all the folders manually
I downloaded the instalation from the link you provided, I am presuming instalation v0.70
And I am installing:

- I didn;t touch ...