Understanding the mule

[idler]

Check wether your offer has been hashed already. Go to "Shared files", click "reload".

[loverboy]

I've now found you & you have a friend slot although nothing much will happen for 6 hours
Stay connected.......many here run eMule 24/7

lb

[berg-man]

Thanks for the umpteenth time, still working on it...

Connectivity is the crucial thing......make sure the globe with arrows in the bottom RH corner is all green.......a yellow or worse still, red arrow indicates a firewall/router problem that needs correcting.

In my case, the arrow is yellow, maybe you could direct me to a thread for advice?

Check whether your offer has been hashed already. Go to "Shared files", click "reload".

I do click reload, but nothing happens (or at least nothing obvious).

I've now found you & you have a friend slot although nothing much will happen for 6 hours eusa_wall.gif
Stay connected.......many here run eMule 24/7

That is great! Looking forward for some action! (Though I might have to disconnect for a couple of hours, hope it will not ruin things).


By the way, I would like to ask something, in all sincerity: emule may be indeed a trustworthy software and much better in the long run, but don't you think that the user-friendly aspect has been rather overlooked? I mean, it's like it's designed to give you inferiority complex... (I wonder, did anybody ever make it alone?)

[loverboy]

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Connectivity is the crucial thing......make sure the globe with arrows in the bottom RH corner is all green.......a yellow or worse still, red arrow indicates a firewall/router problem that needs correcting.


In my case, the arrow is yellow, maybe you could direct me to a thread for advice?

I would suspect one of your ports is blocked, either by the firewall or the router. Check the exceptions in your firewall to make sure the chosen eMule ports are open. Depending on the model of your router there are web sites dedicated to providing information for port-forwarding.

By the way, I would like to ask something, in all sincerity: emule may be indeed a trustworthy software and much better in the long run, but don't you think that the user-friendly aspect has been rather overlooked? I mean, it's like it's designed to give you inferiority complex... (I wonder, did anybody ever make it alone?)

I'll upset some here by agreeing with you that I don't find eMule even remotely user-friendly. However, the benefits of the wealth of material available & the community spirit it encourages far outweighs the initial complexity & sometimes slow results. It's even possible to achieve good results with poor bandwidth. Few here can have such a crap connection & ISP as I have but I still manage to download & upload perfectly satisfactorily.
eMule is NOT a click/download/watch application.......it requires patience & some research/knowledge to set-up correctly. Fortunately, the initial complexity tends to keep some of the fuckwits away!

lb

[Phuzzy4242]

I agree, the problem is probably your router setup. Go to the options menu in eMule and select Connection, then look at the TCP and UDP ports. These are what you have to open in your router. Pick a couple oddball numbers in the 16000 range (many ISPs filter the default eMule ports) and write them down. You may need to exit eMule and start it up again to get it to use different ports.

Go to your router's setups and open those two ports to allow incoming and outgoing eMule traffic. There's a good free program at www.simpleportforwarding.com that makes it easy to set up your router.

Once you set the router ports, come back to the options menu and click the Test Ports button - it will connect to a server and check to see if both ports are open, but I'm guessing you'll see the connection go all green right away after the router problem is fixed.

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[loverboy]

That covers it nicely Phuzzy.......
Let's hope you've got a decent, respected router with a bit of support available & are not in the UK trying to use some cheap piece of shite the ISP gives you......some of these can be an absolute nightmare trying to port-forward.

lb

[berg-man]

Hello again everyone,

I've been trying to fix that router (which I doubt is a decent one) but the task is invariably aggravating. I simply lack the knowledge to proceed, so I am only making things worse (the arrows are now red). I downloaded the suggested program which I'm sure is much simpler but still is difficult to me. I think if I continue I will simply destroy my internet connection altogether.

The only thing that kept me going was the friendliness of this forum and all the people here, but I have reached a point where I need to take a break or I will explode.

Thanks again for your time, I will be back soon, wiser, I hope.

[emuler]

A very good free resource is http://www.portforward.com It has detailed, step by step instructions for various applications and modems/routers. Give it a shot. My recommendation.

[loverboy]

If you tell us the make & model of the router we may be able to help........

lb

[berg-man]

Hello again,

Thanks for the interest; I do know some things more now:

4. Do you have a Low or Hi ID?

Definitely very, very low

If you tell us the make & model of the router we may be able to help........

It is Sagem Fast 1500WG (and looks rather crappy, if you ask me)

A very good free resource is http://www.portforward.com

It is indeed very detailed, foolproof guidance! But I do have a question: I'm urged at a point to change to static ip address, I wonder what effect might that have in my internet connection as I know it, and if I can do it while downloading or better wait for my current downloads to end (limewire).

Thanks!