Thanks for your help guys. I'm starting to understand much better how this works. Since i'm used to using torrents I was not aware of the way in which downloads and uploads work on emule.
I'm going to try and restart the router to see if that has an effect
Help with emule, complete novice.
Re: Help with emule, complete novice.
It didn't work, I have copied and pasted the instructions I am following below. I don't know what they mean by "a series of lines" All I see is 2 huge items, 1 lists service port range as 4665 to 4665 based on my information which I filled in on the page (yes there both the same for some reason)
The 2nd one is exactly the same, except it lists port range as what I specified as 4665 to 4675. I could try adding both these lines to my forwarding setting on my router, at the moment I have just 1 filled in out of 10 columsn, they seem to now be giving me information to fill in 2 columns (whilst before I was only told information for 1 ).
Service Port Range Protocol IP Address
To BOTH 192.168.1.
We will list a series of lines here that will show you exactly how to forward the ports you need to forward. eMule requires you to forward the ports you entered above. Go ahead and enter the settings shown above into the Forwarding menu.
Service Port Range Protocol IP Address
To BOTH 192.168.1.
You should see another page of settings that need to be entered into one of the blank lines on your routers Forwarding page. Go ahead and enter those settings now.
When you're finished, click Apply near the bottom of the screen to save your changes.
And that's it! You're done!
The 2nd one is exactly the same, except it lists port range as what I specified as 4665 to 4675. I could try adding both these lines to my forwarding setting on my router, at the moment I have just 1 filled in out of 10 columsn, they seem to now be giving me information to fill in 2 columns (whilst before I was only told information for 1 ).
Service Port Range Protocol IP Address
To BOTH 192.168.1.
We will list a series of lines here that will show you exactly how to forward the ports you need to forward. eMule requires you to forward the ports you entered above. Go ahead and enter the settings shown above into the Forwarding menu.
Service Port Range Protocol IP Address
To BOTH 192.168.1.
You should see another page of settings that need to be entered into one of the blank lines on your routers Forwarding page. Go ahead and enter those settings now.
When you're finished, click Apply near the bottom of the screen to save your changes.
And that's it! You're done!
Re: Help with emule, complete novice.
Settings should be as follows :-
Emule 4665 4665 TCP Allow all both directions
Emule 4675 4675 UDP Allow all both directions
You should then use the connection test to verify you can be reached - if you can't you will be Lowid.
HTH
BTW You do not need UDP (I think) unless you are using KAD, I have both of these disabled and mine works just fine. This will be disputed, but I have seen postings in P2P forums which state that if you have KAD enabled, this alone CAN lead to having Lowid -I took this advice and this fixed my Lowid. Like I said, what works for me may not for you, but no harm in trying. To ensure the settings changes are made, you must retstart the client.
Emule 4665 4665 TCP Allow all both directions
Emule 4675 4675 UDP Allow all both directions
You should then use the connection test to verify you can be reached - if you can't you will be Lowid.
HTH
BTW You do not need UDP (I think) unless you are using KAD, I have both of these disabled and mine works just fine. This will be disputed, but I have seen postings in P2P forums which state that if you have KAD enabled, this alone CAN lead to having Lowid -I took this advice and this fixed my Lowid. Like I said, what works for me may not for you, but no harm in trying. To ensure the settings changes are made, you must retstart the client.
Re: Help with emule, complete novice.
Thanks billanben, just to clarify so I know I am doing things right.
The settings you refer to Emule 4665 4665 TCP Allow all both directions
Emule 4675 4675 UDP Allow all both directions
These needed to be added on my router, after I click on forward and have the 10 blank columns? There is no place to put anything about emule, or allow directions both ways. Thats why I am struggling I don't know where to find anything about allowing direction both ways, unless it is worded differently. Perhaps this is under emule options somewhere?
As for disenabling kad I will give it a try, but how do I do it? Under connnections, there is a box in the bottom right hand corner which says networks. Inside are 2 options kad and ed2k both boxes are ticked. By unticking this box are they disabled? or do I need to disable these options somewhere else?
I just don't know where to go often to add the new settings, I know some people have suggested turning off some things, and changing ports etc but unless they tell me exactly how to get there (e/g option under connections click test ports) I don't know how to go about changing them.
The settings you refer to Emule 4665 4665 TCP Allow all both directions
Emule 4675 4675 UDP Allow all both directions
These needed to be added on my router, after I click on forward and have the 10 blank columns? There is no place to put anything about emule, or allow directions both ways. Thats why I am struggling I don't know where to find anything about allowing direction both ways, unless it is worded differently. Perhaps this is under emule options somewhere?
As for disenabling kad I will give it a try, but how do I do it? Under connnections, there is a box in the bottom right hand corner which says networks. Inside are 2 options kad and ed2k both boxes are ticked. By unticking this box are they disabled? or do I need to disable these options somewhere else?
I just don't know where to go often to add the new settings, I know some people have suggested turning off some things, and changing ports etc but unless they tell me exactly how to get there (e/g option under connections click test ports) I don't know how to go about changing them.
Re: Help with emule, complete novice.
Don't worry I think you are nearly there.
Yes untick the box and restart emule to disable KAD.
The ten blank boxes should have headers, if there is one box, just put 4665 and make sure only TCP is ticked, ditto for second box down. If there are two boxes side by side, then put 4665 and 4665 in first row, then 4675 and 4675 in second (this is the range).
I have found this for your router :
FAQ
http://linksys.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/lin ... w_search=1
Firstly, suggest you upgrade to latest firmware :-
http://linksys.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/lin ... _topview=1
Then follow this information on port forwarding for the firmware you are now using - please note that you MUST allocate a fixed IP address to your PC, since you will be port forwarding for this IP address only (you should be able to ping localhost, then the IP address of your router (probably 192.168.1.1)) :-
http://linksys.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/lin ... _topview=1
If you follow this you should then be able to run the connection test (in emule help) successfully.
HTH
Yes untick the box and restart emule to disable KAD.
The ten blank boxes should have headers, if there is one box, just put 4665 and make sure only TCP is ticked, ditto for second box down. If there are two boxes side by side, then put 4665 and 4665 in first row, then 4675 and 4675 in second (this is the range).
I have found this for your router :
FAQ
http://linksys.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/lin ... w_search=1
Firstly, suggest you upgrade to latest firmware :-
Then follow this information on port forwarding for the firmware you are now using - please note that you MUST allocate a fixed IP address to your PC, since you will be port forwarding for this IP address only (you should be able to ping localhost, then the IP address of your router (probably 192.168.1.1)) :-
http://linksys.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/lin ... _topview=1
If you follow this you should then be able to run the connection test (in emule help) successfully.
HTH
)Re: Help with emule, complete novice.
Ok firstly I turned off kad and then upgraded my filmware. Under domain name it is blank but I downloaded befsr(1). 46.02 So I am presuming this is firmware 1.46 (the options were different I chose the one firmware 1.40 and above. I tested the tcp ports, but it still can't connect and my id remains low. Anyway the instructions for my model
then told me to put in the following settings
Customised application service port range protocol ip
FTP 20-21 BOTH 192.168.1.3
SMTP 25-25 BOTH 192.168.1.3
POP3 110-110 TCP 192.168.1.3
I already had 2 columns filled in prior to this, and rather than deleting them I left them in so I now have 5 columns filled in in total. Perhaps I need to delete the first 2 I had, and just leave these 3 new ones I am told to put in? All 5 columns have the "enabled" box ticked at the very end of the column.
If you require I can give you details of my previous 2 entries, but I think I should delete them and leave just the 3 columns the instructions specified (as shown above)
Since I have now changed this I don't know whether I need to change my settings in emule as a result (for example in options under connection my client ports still have tcp 4665 and udp 4675 based on the settings I previously had and have still kept in the first 2 columns).
Do you think I should delete the first 2 columns and then do I need to adjust my tcp and udp ports in emule options section to match the ports I have specified in my router forwarding?(Again shown in the table above)
If I need to change this I don't know which values to use, since there are 3 different ranges.
I think I am nearly there, I just need your help finishing it off
I left the customised application column blank for my original 2 settings, but followed the above table exactly for my next 3 columns. I don't know where it got my ip address for that from, unless its a general one.
then told me to put in the following settings
Customised application service port range protocol ip
FTP 20-21 BOTH 192.168.1.3
SMTP 25-25 BOTH 192.168.1.3
POP3 110-110 TCP 192.168.1.3
I already had 2 columns filled in prior to this, and rather than deleting them I left them in so I now have 5 columns filled in in total. Perhaps I need to delete the first 2 I had, and just leave these 3 new ones I am told to put in? All 5 columns have the "enabled" box ticked at the very end of the column.
If you require I can give you details of my previous 2 entries, but I think I should delete them and leave just the 3 columns the instructions specified (as shown above)
Since I have now changed this I don't know whether I need to change my settings in emule as a result (for example in options under connection my client ports still have tcp 4665 and udp 4675 based on the settings I previously had and have still kept in the first 2 columns).
Do you think I should delete the first 2 columns and then do I need to adjust my tcp and udp ports in emule options section to match the ports I have specified in my router forwarding?(Again shown in the table above)
If I need to change this I don't know which values to use, since there are 3 different ranges.
I think I am nearly there, I just need your help finishing it off
I left the customised application column blank for my original 2 settings, but followed the above table exactly for my next 3 columns. I don't know where it got my ip address for that from, unless its a general one.
Re: Help with emule, complete novice.
Also have just noticed under my routers setup options WAN CONNECTION TYPE I have selected "obtain an ip automatically"
Other options I can select are static ip, PPPoE and PPTP. I wasn't sure if this should be selected to static, but at the moment have just left it as automatically obtain.
Other options I can select are static ip, PPPoE and PPTP. I wasn't sure if this should be selected to static, but at the moment have just left it as automatically obtain.
Re: Help with emule, complete novice.
OK firstly. The setting for your router to obtain IP automatically refers to the external interface (it has one internal and one external) - this is correct setting and you do not need to worry about that.
The three things it advises to fill in are AFTER you have given your machine a fixed IP - in this case you must have 192.169.1.3 as your machine's fixed IP correct ? (check the properties of your network connection - it should NOT be set to "obtain IP address automatically" - you should have here the following :-
IP 192.168.1.3
Subnet 255.255.255.0
Gateway 192.168.1.1 (assuming this is internal address of your router). Please open a command prompt and type ipconfig /all - do a screendump of this and attach to a pm to me - I will check you have this correct).
Assuming this is correct, I suspect your first two boxes have the settings for emule 4665 TCP/4675 UDP ? If so leave those there - they are correct. The last thing you need is to make sure you have the ports set correctly to match these in your emule client (Options\Connection). Once this is done, you are all set.
FYI the three settings they advise are for FTP (you probably do not need this but are safe to leave it), and the other two are for sending/receiving mail SMTP port 25, POP3 port 110 - leave those too, they are ports defined by Internet standards and are understood by the software within the protocols.
I think you should now get Highid.
The three things it advises to fill in are AFTER you have given your machine a fixed IP - in this case you must have 192.169.1.3 as your machine's fixed IP correct ? (check the properties of your network connection - it should NOT be set to "obtain IP address automatically" - you should have here the following :-
IP 192.168.1.3
Subnet 255.255.255.0
Gateway 192.168.1.1 (assuming this is internal address of your router). Please open a command prompt and type ipconfig /all - do a screendump of this and attach to a pm to me - I will check you have this correct).
Assuming this is correct, I suspect your first two boxes have the settings for emule 4665 TCP/4675 UDP ? If so leave those there - they are correct. The last thing you need is to make sure you have the ports set correctly to match these in your emule client (Options\Connection). Once this is done, you are all set.
FYI the three settings they advise are for FTP (you probably do not need this but are safe to leave it), and the other two are for sending/receiving mail SMTP port 25, POP3 port 110 - leave those too, they are ports defined by Internet standards and are understood by the software within the protocols.
I think you should now get Highid.