Emule: Low ID/router problem. Please help

[grinner]

Didn't get much response on the official Emule board, hope you guys can help
trying to fix my Low ID, which is why I can't download _anything_ on emule. I'm lucky if I get 2kb/s for an hour, all the while my upload is fine. Have 80% of my downloads stuck in the queue for months and I'm doubting if emule is even worth it. It used to be so cool.

Anyway I think I can't connect because of a low ID. have a router. Trying to open ports.
http://img61.photobucket.com/albums/v185/grinner/virtual_server.jpg
here is a picture of the page where I can modify the ports to my router, I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know which ports I should open or how I should open them. Ther router is an "AirLink+"
Is this enough information? Also, you can read my thread on the emule board, the one that didn't get replies, it might help.
http://forum.emule-project.net/index.php?showtopic=46490
thank you very much, I look forward to your advice

[thongsai]

lol y u blank out ip? how will we know u did it right? anyways set up a local static ip then tell ur router to send the ports to that ip
http://www.homenethelp.com/web/howto/static-ip-address.asp

[grinner]

I thought it might be dangerous to display my ip, or is that the non specific ip of the router rather than my idividual computer that gets displayed?

[-0-BACKLASH-0-]

it's prolly just the router's ip anyway. could it be... 192.168.1.100 or 101?

[rebirth]

192.168.0.1-192.168.0.3, eh?

[Ken17625]

Where it says "IP", enter the internal IP of the computer you want the data forwarded to. In this case, the first 3 octets are present, the 4th is what you want. Go to a command prompt (Start->Programs->Accessories->System Tools in Windows). Type ipconfig, and the number displayed for "IP Address" is the full internal IP address of the computer. The last octet is what you use in this case. So, for example, it might be 192.168.0.100. The "100" is what is needed, and identifies that particular computer exclusively. It is the internal IP address, as assigned by your router.


Where it says port, enter the port you want forwarded.

Select the protocol (TCP, UDP, etc..)

Check the box "Enabled".


For the ED2k network, you need a TCP port forwarded and a UDP port forworded. The defaults, I believe are 4672 for UDP, and 4662 for TCP.

You can chage these values to whatever you want, in eMule's program settings.

[grinner]

thank you so much for the help guys. You guys know you're stuff, figured out the first 3 octets dead on. I've found out what the last octet should be, and put that there. I still don't think I'm there yet. I still think I have a LowID still b/c in emule I still have a red arrow pointing down over the world in the lower right hand corner in emule. I still don't know how to work the ports properly.


according to the general router faq at www.emule-project.net/home/perl/help.cgi?l=1&rm=show_topic&topic_id=125
"To prevent this all ports in the list that have the incoming direction – port 4662, 4711 TCP and port 4672 UDP – have to be forwarded. "
I still don't follow this, much less the entire faq, but I guess TCP=4662 & UDP=4672, just like Ken said.

I don't know how to do that, could you help me out alittle further? Like Ken said "Select the protocol (TCP, UDP, etc..)" but there's no TCP or UDP to select as far as I can tell.

You see, like in the picture link I provided above http://img61.photobucket.com/albums/v185/grinner/virtual_server.jpg, there's "Mapping Ports" "Server IP" and an "Enabled" checkbox but there's no way to select protocol like TCP/UDP as far as I can tell.
what should I do at this point?

[Ken17625]

You're probably going to have to consult some online help for your brand of router (try the manufacturers website, or google it), or perhaps someone at Zeropaid can help you configure it.

I don't know anything about the web-interface of your router, thus I cannot help specifically with the settings (port forwarding, etc..).

[grinner]

hmm.. I explored the settings for my router a little farther and I think I found the place to change the port forwarding stuff, take a look

http://img61.photobucket.com/albums/v185/grinner/virtualserver2.jpg

I think this is the page to do the port stuff from, how should I proceed from here? what should I put where? The public port stuff confuses me, I've never heard mention of that or what to do there so I don't want to mess up. Thank you so much everybody, I want you to know I really appreciate this

[Siskabush]

You said you have a router.
Are the main ports for Emule open?

[grinner]

I think they arehttp://img61.photobucket.com/albums/v185/grinner/emule_connection.jpg

[grinner]

okay guys, I think I got the router problem solved. High ID in both upload and download but I still am having lots of problems with emule, its just not downloading at all 95% of the time and crashes every few hours, can't auto update servers either. So I'll ask in the other forum.