How to increase my upload speed?

[Night457]

Thats alot of transfers So this is how high ID world works.

There is a whole LOT of LowID Users out there who are desperate for sources, even from those with only moderate speeds. I intend to get every damn penny's worth out of my Internet, whether it directly benefits me or someone else. So I am uploading almost all the time, and I share many files.

[mimzy]

I would point out that eMule shows kilobytes per second, but Internet speed is usually measured in megabits per second. Since the Internet data includes overhead, you can divide megabits by roughly 10 to get megabytes value.

Speedtest always shows higher speed than you can reach with eMule. One reason is throttling by ISPs (and theoretically it is possible that highID connections are throttled while lowID connections are not).

As Ghost already mentioned, upload speed to different users varies a lot. You have to upload to multiple users to use your full capacity.

Generally it is a good idea to set upload and download limit below the actual maximum speed. Downloading too fast can slow down upload and vice versa.

Finally, I suspect that the CPU can be a limiting factor for reaching very high speeds (ie., 10+ MB/s). eMule was written long time ago, so it is probably not optimized for very high speeds.

Server can play a role in finding sources more quickly, but I don't think it has an effect on transfer speed.

[Night457]

Thanks for the tech talk, mimzy!

Internet speed is usually measured in megabits per second. Since the Internet data includes overhead, you can divide megabits by roughly 10 to get megabytes value.

As if it is not confusing enough already and "they" have to pull that nonsense Mbps vs. MBps on us!