Here's a bit of a quandry...

[Farbenrumble]

Now, I've been using Emule for a while now. I've been completely content with the speed and everything, and it works perfect behind my Microsfoft Broadband Gateway (not the default WinXP firewall which is turned off, but a Microsoft Router firewall). Port forwarding works and I've used to be able to get consistent speeds of 100+kbs.

Recently however, some computer people decided to screw around with my Windows system files and to make a long story short, I had to reformat. No big deal since I partition my hard drives.

So now after a reformat, fresh install, all the updates and what have you, I went back to Emule.

First thing I noticed, I don't get any lowID's, rather I get the exact same ID every time I connect to a server. With firewall on or off.

Second, downloads don't start. So far the only file I was able to download was a 6mb MP3 (test) and that took three days.

Finally, I am unable to upload anything. which is weird because I have 30 gigs in my share folder dedicated just for that. There will usually be people connected to me, but their downloads are going at 0.1kbs or lower. And yes, I have set my upload speeds to the max allowed by my ISP (16kbs)

I've tried going back to old versions of Emule, the latest version and Emule plus to no avail. Same behavior with or without the firewall on.
On my last legs here...

[Farbenrumble]

Don't know if it helps but the ID I always get is 631353551

[DainBramaged]

Is everything configured exactly as it was before?

[hawkburn]

Make sure the "Fast Connect" option is off.

2.) You mentioned you had to reformat - make sure you remembered to "re-disable" the integrated XP firewall for the wired or wireless basestation/router/switch. Make sure port forwarding is still in order.

Connect to a server you KNOW is good (AdaNet for example)

Last solution: If you had configured emule to use a port other than default (4662 TCP) make sure you tell the mule to use the port you entered into the router, so that the tcp AND udp ports match up on both the router and program.

Oh yea - make sure any software firewalls allow emule full incoming, outgoing Internet AND server access, along with mail port access.

EDIT: Welcome to ZeroPaid :ass

[Farbenrumble]

Make sure the "Fast Connect" option is off.

Do you mean Safe Connect? Because I've tried turning that option on and off to no avail.

I'm really at a crossroads here. My settings are exactly the same as before, before I had to reformat. XP firewall disabled, router settings the same.

The only thing I can think of that's different is that my isp recently changed the user name login scheme to something else. Before it was [username]@cuic.ca, now it's [username]@ispdsl.ca, but this happened before the reformat and it was fine then. Other then that I can't think of any major changes. I might even have to go back to the old edonkey2000 client.

[zaphodiv]

>I don't get any lowID's, rather I get the exact same ID every time
>I connect to a server.

That means the ip address assigned to you by your ISP is the same.

>With firewall on or off.
Do you mean the firewall in the router or a personal firewall on your machine?

Have you set your client to listen on port 80? That is a bad port
to use for emule because ed2k traffic will not go through web proxys.

You have to configure port forwarding in your router (or use DMZ if it
supports that).

>Second, downloads don't start.
You lost your old emule id and your credit when you reinstalled but
some files should download.

>Finally, I am unable to upload anything.

Either your ISP is blocking, you are getting a false high-id due
to incorrect port configuration or somthing is wrong on the PC.