Edonkey Network

[Ezza6745]

I'm not making this a edonkey/emule speeds suck spam thread. I love emule and think it is better than fasttrack/Gnutella it terms of content and the content is high quality.
Just wanted to know what makes the network slow (eg the way the network is designed)??

Ezza :santa

[begoodbebad]

I'm not making this a edonkey/emule speeds suck spam thread. I love emule and think it is better than fasttrack/Gnutella it terms of content and the content is high quality.
Just wanted to know what makes the network slow (eg the way the network is designed)??

Ezza :santa

It isn't a slow network. Some files are widely spread and will download extremely quickly. Others will take time, they are relatively rare and you will have to wait your turn alongside the thousands of people requesting more popular stuff.
Using edonkey2000 (which also connects to the serverless overnet) I often download close to or at my cable modems max for long periods. Today I am using over 80% of my downloading bandwidth. Other times when I am looking for just one or two unusual things it will be more like 25%.
So it is easy for me to see that the network has no speed problem, everything depends on the number of users online and the availability of files.

[SimbaK2K]

Yea, it really does vary. But I don't mind. You get used to it after a while, and slow speeds do have a good side. They tend to scare off leechers and impatient people who don't normally share. Ed2K is a quality network, with just about everything possible. Aslong as I get my files, and theyre of great quality, who cares about speed?

[eBwoy]

Yea, it really does vary. But I don't mind. You get used to it after a while, and slow speeds do have a good side. They tend to scare off leechers and impatient people who don't normally share. Ed2K is a quality network, with just about everything possible. Aslong as I get my files, and theyre of great quality, who cares about speed?
Yep - patience is definitely a virtue with eMule, but as mentioned before - it separates the men from the boys . . it's quality and that's what's important.

If you're gonna throw a strop, then join the Kazaa teens !

Remember also that there is one key thing to getting this network lubricated sweetly, and that's keeping files you've downloaded, shared . . no sneaky deletions thinking it won't affect anything !

Please Keep it shared ! !

[zaphodiv]

Low-id clients get slower downloads on average.

The credit system has most effect on large files. You have
to upload for a few days before you get a significant benifit.

Fundamentally, for every meg you download someone else has to upload a meg. Most users are on cable/DSL with less upload capability than download.

[Ezza6745]

Dont get me wrong i'm not complaining i just wondered if there was any reason why the network was slower than others.
I normally just leave emule connected all the time. I've never had emule max out my dsl connection but i have had some decent speeds out of it for a while but never a constant high speed.

[NastyDogface]

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If it works for you, spread the word. If not, I am sorry to be such a worthless loser, and you may not want to ever read another of my bullshit posts. Later.

[begoodbebad]

Dont get me wrong i'm not complaining i just wondered if there was any reason why the network was slower than others.
I normally just leave emule connected all the time. I've never had emule max out my dsl connection but i have had some decent speeds out of it for a while but never a constant high speed.

Again: the network is not slow. This is proven and demonstrable. My client has been downloading at or close to my cable modem max most of the day. On the edonkey network you can download at consistently high speeds. If your client has never maxed your adsl connection then there is likely to be something wrong with your client or with the way it is set up. Emule has lots of different settings (or from another point of view a lot of different ways of screwing up your connection). There are two other edonkey type clients you should try: edonkey2000 and Overnet. For well spread/popular files Overnet is the fastest. You will see your connection max out. For general use edonkey2000 is the best as it connects to overnet and emule and of course to other edonkey2000 clients. It is also consistently very fast and again you will see your connection used to its fullest. In my experience both these clients are clearly superior to emule in terms of speed and simplicity and also less demanding on your cpu and memory. Because edonkey2000 connects to everyone on the network it finds everything out there. Emule remains superior and easier to manage for releasing. There is also Shareaza but it has some real problems on edonkey network, use a dedicated client.

[P4L]

I am running edonkey 2000 on linux mandrake , i can connect to the servers , but i have not had a single download start, anyone got any suggestions.

[NastyDogface]

I am running edonkey 2000 on linux mandrake , i can connect to the servers , but i have not had a single download start, anyone got any suggestions.

Are you using a router? If so you might have to open a port or two.

[simon_says_horrible]

looks overspeed. (UPDATED*1/25/04) :green4

[Vlet]

A lot of it also has to do with the way the various clients partition upstream bandwidth. eDonkey clients tend to open more upload slots on your client opposed to opening fewer at higher speeds

[thongsai]

9mb chunks. most people have adsl and it takes awhile to upload 9mb to some1. if u try bt (1mb or less chunks) u will hate ed2k network.

[z05+3R0p5]

9mb chunks. most people have adsl and it takes awhile to upload 9mb to some1. if u try bt (1mb or less chunks) u will hate ed2k network.

yup... but then, bt is next to useless for rare stuff due to the way it works. it was originally intended for distributed content *streaming*, and that shows. especially annoying is the fact that content tends to 'run through' - now its there, half a week later its gone for good.

the edonkey network is a robust one with many rare files and the clients do not suck when you schedule some 700 downloads of small or ephemeral files, rare movies or such stuff. amazingly often, content that had disappeared is suddenly there again, you just never cancel the dl but wait

[WRFan]

It isn't a slow network. Some files are widely spread and will download extremely quickly

really? I am trying to download a movie from edonkey- appr. 350 sources, in three weeks (16 hours per day) I've downloaded 290 mb. In the meantime I've downloaded at least 20 movies from irc, each of them being appr. 1.2-16gb in size, it takes just 10 hours or less to download the whole movie, incl. waiting in the queues.Wwant to see my Netlimiter stats for mirc and emule for the same amount of time? In the last 6 hours I've downloaded over 800 mb from irc (from a singular source!) and just 15 mb from edonkey (overall 15 files, more than 3000 sources together!). so phuck edonkey. see the phucking difference? If 3000 people give less in 2 weeks than one singular irc bot in 6 hours, then something is definitely wrong with the whole network

[matt merch]

mule/donkey/overnet network are great espcially for anything obscure as for speed if i want somthing fast new rls etc irc is my first stop as i refuse to pay for newsgroup access i will run irc takin 90% of my d/l bandwith and let the mule take up the slack

[zaphodiv]

> I am trying to download a movie from edonkey- appr. 350 sources, in three weeks
>(16 hours per day) I've downloaded 290 mb.

>then something is definitely wrong with the whole network
No, just your setup. Either your ISP is throttling emule or you have seriously messed up your network settings for emule to go that slow. Port 80 is a bad port to use for emule since emule traffic won't go through http proxys. Have you got portfording set the the right lan address?